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Month: March 2009

WordPress and special characters

Today when I was adding an article, I was getting really upset with WordPress, I just wanted to add some simple characters and have it printed AS IS.

When working with WordPress and using special characters like a redirection symbol ” > ”  or something enclosed in it’s on tag  like “<dev>” it will get hosed while editing in “HTML” mode. You could insert syntax to stop it from doing that, but it’s much easier to add a post with such things in “Visual” mode first. Then switch over to “HTML” mode if any other special tags are needed.

SWAT in 60 seconds

Q. What is SWAT? A. It’s the “Samba Web Administration Tool” Q. What can I use it for? A. (shrug )Maybe to quickly setup a SAMBA server etc. 😉 from following my previous howto. A2. It does have some good info even if you don’t use it for your SMB…