https://get-the.net/ 2026-07-29T14:14:55+02:00 https://get-the.net/ https://get-the.net/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2013-05-31T17:53:01+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=cms:begin_document&rev=1370015581&do=diff Introduction What would an ideal system for collaborative document sharing be like? In particular, what might an individual want to have for a family site, or a college class site, or a personal site? Can a same system satisfy all those wants? Is one technically feasible? text/html 2012-12-18T10:13:53+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=what_year&rev=1355822033&do=diff " Given an invitation for an event on “Saturday, April 26th,” for instance, might it (if correct, of course) have been from last year? " Without consulting a perpetual calendar, here's one solution that uses a sort of back of the envelope perpetual calendar that is easy to construct. text/html 2013-04-28T18:45:25+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes&rev=1367167525&do=diff Working long hours and raising children at the same time didn't leave me long hours to prepare meals every day. I also tried to limit my grocery shopping to once a week--on Saturday like everyone else! I'd make a menu plan for the week, prepare my shopping list accordingly (I even had an order-form like sheet I printed with the computer, with product categories arranging in the order of the aisles in my regular supermarket), and shop around noon, when most people were at lunch. text/html 2010-01-01T22:58:21+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:hopping_john&rev=1262383101&do=diff Hopping John Let me begin by citing a cook book I have that is crumbling: at least I'll preserve a page digitally! BLACK-EYED PEAS Black-eyed peas are esteemed in the South as an appetizing basic dish (traditionally served on New Year's Day for good luck). When possible they are boiled fresh with pork, but are very good in the dried state From black-eyed peas combined with rice comes the famous “Hopping John” (called “Hopping Jack” in some sections), a type of Jambalaya, said to be of Spa… text/html 2009-08-06T20:46:53+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=wiki:syntax&rev=1249584413&do=diff DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing the Edit this page button at the top or bottom of the page. If you want to try something, just use the playground page. The simpler markup is easily accessible via quickbuttons, too. text/html 2012-12-17T16:14:10+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=friday_xiii&rev=1355757250&do=diff Is there a Friday XIII every year, or are there years without? Are there years with lots and lots? How many is the most in one year? The following simple table answers all these questions for you: I've already done the work. Just find the row that corresponds to the day of the week the first of January falls; the months with a Friday XIII are listed according to whether it is a leap year or not. text/html 2012-06-04T14:02:09+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=ages_of_parents_chart&rev=1338811329&do=diff In genealogy, one encounters many ways of displaying data, most of which are intended to show one's ascendence--of which pedigree is a particular case-- or descendence. Some show a compromise ('hourglass' chart), the ascendence and descendence of a selected individual. The genealogy toolkit gramps provides these and other charts and reports. A chart (or even report) I wish it provided, but have not seen among the standard reports either in gramps or on genealogy services, is what I'd call a clos… text/html 2012-11-20T14:42:29+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=shoes&rev=1353418949&do=diff Some shoes. Some are really old, some are worn out, some are new or newer. Some are of a type one doesn't find any more, at least for men. Slip-ons, sports shoes, Clarks, and boots have their own pages. Rieker Anti-Stress (2012) Size 44 extra weit text/html 2009-08-25T19:36:53+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=jsm_button&rev=1251221813&do=diff Because I have used the jsMath plugin a lot, and the shorthand mark-up ($..$ or [..]) doesn't suit me because I use those symbols in my texts, I felt it would be useful to have a button (or more) in the edit form to automatically insert jsMath mark-up. It is possible to do this by adding a plugin of the “Action” family. text/html 2010-03-31T13:18:03+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=java:fuzzy_concept_extractor&rev=1270034283&do=diff While “Fuzzy Concept Extractor” might seem like a specialization of “Concept Extractor”, it is a generalization compared to concept extractors for binary relations and multivalued crisp relations (“one value among”--think radio buttons). text/html 2014-10-22T10:40:36+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=ubuntu:rsync_archive&rev=1413967236&do=diff " This is a reproduction of my note published elsewhere dated 21 August 2013." Normal: read the man pages. Confusing archive with merge One might naïvely suppose that the behavior of the -a or --archive option will be to replace files only by newer files of the same name, or to ask whether or not to replace files. However, rsync is intended to just run without interaction, so the latter behavior would be inappropriate. Why would it replace files regardless? The command is to archive, not to… text/html 2009-10-15T08:04:11+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=m1ilc:edid_tp_1&rev=1255586651&do=diff Note : this is not original material, merely an extract of the IBM Tutorial Documents omitting the procedures to have a slightly higher-level view of the tutorial before (and while) performing it. Module 1: Designing the physical data model for your data warehouse In this module, you will connect to the GSDB database and create a physical data model for the new data mart that you will build. You will create a MARTS schema in the data model and then update the GSDB database with the changes. text/html 2010-02-10T12:41:20+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:saag_aloo&rev=1265802080&do=diff Frozen spinach with potatoes Ingredients Serves 4-6, but only 2-3 if mussels are added to make a one-dish meal. 550g frozen leaf spinach (not creamed!). Swiss chard (“bettes”) and kale (“choux frisé”) are substitutes I like. 300ml water 110 g onion(s), peeled 5 Tb (75 ml) vegetable oil pinch asafoetida (optional? I don't think so.) 2 tsp (10 ml) whole black mustard seeds 2 cloves garlic 500 g potatoes -- the stay-firm type, like Charlottes, or cauliflower if you want a more … text/html 2011-12-08T17:33:33+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:aile_de_raie&rev=1323362013&do=diff This recipe is pretty simple. The trickiest part is getting the Sauternes to flame (flambé), more easily accomplished in a wide, low saucepan than in a tall, narrow one. The recipe calls for skate, a cartilaginous fish (like stingrays only smaller) which may have been overfished; indeed, I don't find it for sale as often as I did a couple of decades ago. However, the sauce goes well with scallops (St. Jacques), which can be poached, steamed lightly (or sautéed). text/html 2011-07-26T09:44:03+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=elsevier&rev=1311666243&do=diff These are my notes from a lecture given by Gerrit Borchard in Hautepierre, France, on 7 December 2010. The ideas are, I suppose mostly his, but the expression and selection of the ideas is mine. Mr. Borchard is an editor, author and reviewer and hence qualified to expound on the process from submission to revision. text/html 2012-11-20T15:04:40+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=shoes_slip_on&rev=1353420280&do=diff Like many people, my feet are not quite the same size. Not enough to be a problem, but I tend to prefer shoes with laces to slip-on shoes because it is easier (nay, possible!) to match the tightness. I do have a couple of pair, only one of which I've worn much. The other has a little strap across the front that was a little too tight, and it snapped one of the first times I wore them; I tried gluing it back (didn't hold), but I'm not going to pay for a repair that costs more than the shoes did! text/html 2014-10-22T13:01:25+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=lynx:advice&rev=1413975685&do=diff Eating Old Food Summary of key points from a BBC piece How safe is mouldy food? 2014-Oct-22 Source of advice: mould expert, Dr Patrick Hickey. * we will not be eating any foods that have passed their “use by” date. To do so would risk serious food poisoning. With “best before” or “sell by” things are more flexible. * cheeses: * cheddar and parmesan and other dry cheeses: cut away the mouldy part, being careful that the knife doesn't get contaminated by mould. Mould needs moisture… text/html 2009-09-28T09:44:52+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=jsmath_debug&rev=1254123892&do=diff JSMath Debug I've been using a version of jsMath and the jsMath plugin for dokuwiki for several months. Whoever, I discovered that it seemed to be implicated in errors when I tried to save new or edited pages. To debug this phenomenon, it seemed to me that it would be best to try a “vanilla” version of the plugin: if that doesn't cause the error, I can then incrementaly change and test to get back to what I was initially trying to accomplish. The features I was trying to incorporate were… text/html 2012-11-20T14:19:25+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=shoes_boots&rev=1353417565&do=diff During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I often wore boots and other footwear that covered the ankle. But never the dressy sort (with elastic or zippers), mostly work boots, steel-toed or not, that lasted well. I bought a pair of cowboy boots when I was in college, but stopped wearing them well before they were worn out; now they are too stiff--and my feet too big?--to put them on. But I've kept them. I also have a pair of safety shoes I wore at work circa 1978-9, and a pair of warm boots I wear … text/html 2013-11-02T08:25:44+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=prospects:stump&rev=1383377144&do=diff What and Why There are topics and ideas that occur to me that I'd like to keep notes on. Oddly, and to my disappointment, it is not so easy to do that in a wiki. For instance, the ways to add a new page in this wiki are * editing an existing page to add a link to the page-to-be, saving, clicking on the link, and answering “yes” to the do-you-want-to-create-this-page question; * typing the path and name of the page-to-be in the URL field of the browser, requesting the URL, then answer… text/html 2009-08-25T12:16:53+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=doku_button&rev=1251195413&do=diff Adding Buttons to DokuWiki What I Wanted I wanted to add a “custom” button in dokuwiki, so my template would have a clearly indicated link to the legal information (“mentions légales” in French). What I Discovered * one cannot use a call to tpl_button() because it only works for actions that are hard-coded into its select/case structure. * one can use text/html 2011-11-15T08:24:21+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=emacs:emacs-build&rev=1321341861&do=diff Contexte Pour des raisons de stabilité, contrôle de la qualité, tests avant diffusion d'une nouvelle distribution d'Ubuntu, les paquets des applications sont généralement pas les plus récents. En effet, Ubuntu 10.10, d'octobre 2010, comporte emacs 23.1 de juillet 2009! Tandis que les binaires pour Windows sont de version 23.3, de mars 2011. Aussi je souhaite installer cette nouvelle version (23.3a) pour utilisation avec Ubuntu. text/html 2017-04-17T02:04:03+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=twigs&rev=1492387443&do=diff Twigs are like little branches. They are also the name I have chosen for what could also be called ”orphans”: pages not linked to from other pages. Orphans sometimes link to other pages, though, composing little orphan clusters. I consider them twigs, to be grafted on to a trunk somewhere sometime. text/html 2013-04-28T15:23:43+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:egg_comp&rev=1367155423&do=diff Quiche, Ramequin, Soufflé, and Impossible Pies have a lot in common: eggs and milk and --in most cases--flour. The following table presents key components they share, omitting the procedures by which they are prepared. These recipes are all scalable but are presented here with three eggs each for ease of observation. To summarize, one could say that text/html 2013-08-11T17:21:01+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=listserv&rev=1376234461&do=diff Yale College 1975 Listserv About The listserv archives of the Yale College class of 1975 (with a few gaps in my collection due to mail server bounces) provide a rich collection of documents for a number of uses. I've done stats on number of documents per year, and from whom; how many participants (and subscribers) at various points in time; Pareto or Gini stats on dominent voices. I once or twice looked through posts to see what user mail agents people were using, and what networks. I'm te… text/html 2016-03-19T13:27:15+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=emacs:install_on_win10&rev=1458390435&do=diff Acquisition J'ai téléchargé l'archive zip d'un serveur relais (mirror) ftp ftp.igh.cnrs.fr/pub/gnu/emacs/windows et téléchargé la signature pour contrôler. This README.W32 file describes how to set up and run a precompiled distribution of GNU Emacs for Windows. You can find the precompiled distribution on the ftp.gnu.org server and its mirrors: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ This server contains other distributions, including the full Emacs source distribution, as well as … text/html 2017-04-17T03:17:06+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=france_2017_cartes&rev=1492391826&do=diff I have come across two quiz/tests purporting to recognize one's affinities and political proximities to the candidates in the French presidential election in 2017. One is in French, and proposes mainly multiple choice questions with three to five alternative policy options; the other is in English and proposes policy statements with a scale of degree of agreement. text/html 2011-09-03T14:23:53+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=emacs:packages&rev=1315052633&do=diff The GNU Emacs Lisp Package Archive is a repository which the GNU Emacs Package Manager can use to simply install or update key emacs packages, such as org-mode. Apparently, according to the Org-mode FAQs it is a standard part of the Emacs 24 distribution, available for easy installation in Emacs 23, too. text/html 2010-03-08T16:58:57+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=fca:formats&rev=1268063937&do=diff Formats for Contexts and Concepts FIMI FIMI 2003 The dataset input must use the following ascii format only! Each transaction is stored on a separate line as a list of items separated by white space and ending with a newline. Each item is a non-negative integer. text/html 2010-06-12T11:31:42+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:three_bean_salad&rev=1276335102&do=diff Three-Bean Salad I use this recipe a lot, but almost never for three-bean salad! I like its “sauce” for other vegetables, like cucumbers or beets: less oil, and the sugar fixes the water so the vegetables stay crisp (which is why it is used for the beans, I suppose). So, let me present it in two parts: sauce and chunks. text/html 2010-02-10T10:59:49+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=dokuwiki_plugins&rev=1265795989&do=diff jsMath definition list plugins Seven plugins correspond to this purpose, more or less, but two are more like accronym tooltip (“explain” and “term”) and one is a “simple universal list plugin”, whatever that means! How to choose? Build a comparison table, of course! I think I'll try deflist. text/html 2009-12-24T15:04:40+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:civet_de_canard&rev=1261663480&do=diff Civet de Canard * Prepare marinade: * 2 C (50 cl) red wine (vin rouge) * C (125 ml) oil (not olive, just a light, bland oil) * 2 onions, thinly sliced * 3 cloves garlic, chopped * herbs and spices to taste (use your best guess if you don't like mine): * thyme -- ml ( tsp) * bay leaf -- one * cloves -- three or four text/html 2009-09-13T19:50:08+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:pollo_vinagreta&rev=1252864208&do=diff Pollo à la Vinagreta * Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 30 minutes * about 3 lbs. (1300 g) chicken, cut in pieces. I prefer to skin the chicken pieces, both to reduce fat and because I like crispy, roasted skin but not soggy, simmered skin . * 1/2 Cup (12 cl) water * a little salt : this is not going to be drained, so salt as you would that amount of chicken. * 1 bay leaf or 3/2 bay leaves * 6 peppercorns (black) text/html 2009-12-24T14:10:35+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:spicy_baked_chicken&rev=1261660235&do=diff Spicy Baked Chicken * Prepare marinade: * tsp ground cumin * tsp ground paprika * tsp ground cayenne -- reduce or omit if you prefer less spicy, it will still be very tasty. * tsp ground turmeric * tsp ground black pepper * tsp salt * 1-2 cloves garlic, mashed * 3 Tb lemon juice text/html 2010-06-12T12:24:39+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=recipes:cucumber_in_yoghurt&rev=1276338279&do=diff Concombres au Yaourt Cucumbers in yoghurt. This recipe is from the excellent and classic “La Cuisine en Afrique du Nord” by Haydee Tamzali, edited by Michael Tomkinson for Vilo Paris, 1986. * Prepare the cucumbers * Wash and peel 500g of small cucumbers. * Cut into small cubes * marinate half an hour with 2 Tb of vinegar and some salt * squeeze them to rid them of as much vinegar and the liquid they have given off (and salt) text/html 2011-01-21T09:14:14+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=start&rev=1295597654&do=diff WordCloud As it grows, the list of most-used words will change : Le nuage des mots fréquents sur ce site évoluera avec l'évolution du contenu . En Anglais d'Abord This is where this wiki-powered website begins . It (get the net) doesn't have a mission or well-defined purpose; it only exists because I liked (and registered) the domain name, inspired by a scene near the beginning of Wayne's World. At present, you'll mostly find my transcribed notes from school, in French, and maybe some blog… text/html 2011-09-02T11:46:33+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=ubuntu:ratpoison&rev=1314956793&do=diff As I've used emacs more and more, after a few months trying to compose LaTeX documents with LyX, I'm enjoying less and less using non-keyboard input devices (so-called “mice”). So I was intrigued by Ratpoison, a Linux window manager called ratpoison. I learned of it via Ubuntu Lite installation, which also provides lots of other interesting suggestions. text/html 2011-09-26T12:35:51+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=orphans&rev=1317033351&do=diff I'm not sure why this is a plugin (extension) and not a standard feature of dokuwiki; it seems like something every wiki should have, given the ease of adding new pages. Anyway, it is, and I finally got around to installing it. The good news is that there are relatively few orphans, and I've clustered some of them into now. text/html 2011-06-04T15:59:08+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=public_holidays_in_france&rev=1307195948&do=diff I'm sure I've already done this, perhaps in a spreadsheet (in a format no longer easily read, perhaps), but I haven't found it. The basic idea is to compute the possibilities for the number of holidays falling on Monday through Friday in the course of a year. Holidays falling on Saturday are also of interest, but more because they are inconvenient for those with Monday-to-Friday occupations who count on getting their errands done on Saturday. Holidays falling on Sundays are wasted. Monday is e… text/html 2011-05-10T12:46:29+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=m2ilc:fouille_dist_fiche&rev=1305024389&do=diff Comment peut un grand spécialiste de location par correspondance nord américain croître sa capacité de gestion de la relation par Internet sans agrandir ni multiplier son centre de traitement informatique ? Et pourquoi préfère-t-il ne pas agrandir sa capacité propre de traitement ? text/html 2011-05-09T19:32:36+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=projet_dch:model_db&rev=1304962356&do=diff Interactions controller-model avec attention à l'utilisation des structures de données par les View Create Promo $user = Model_DB::listAllUsers('last_name'); $userArray = $user->fetchAll(); $this->registry->template->userArray = $userArray; view text/html 2012-11-20T13:52:58+02:00 https://get-the.net/doku.php?id=shoes_clarks&rev=1353415978&do=diff My earliest recollection of the Clarks brand is from about 1966 when their “desert boot” became popular in Los Angeles. I began buying their casual shoes in the 1980s, particularly when it became hard or impossible to find Roots. I've found them very comfortable as well as attractive. My main complaint, which holds for most other shoes made today as well, is that it is impossible to replace the soles (those I've owned don't have heels, per se). I've also had other problems with the soles, incl…