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Just a quick and dirty howto for tiddlywiki

Yesterday, Lifehacker posted a howto on setting up a portable personal wiki. To me (and a good portion of other commenters) it seemed like overkill. It also showed me that alot of people are looking for something light, flexible, and cross-platform. This perfectly describes a tiddlywiki.

A Tiddlywiki is a page that works as a notebook (although it is not limted to this). Generally, the way i use it is when I get an idea I create a new tiddler and add my notes to it. I’ll tag it, revise it, and hopefully do something with it eventually. The easist way to understand all this is to actually create a Tiddlywiki and start using it which I will walk you through.

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One of the few windows programs that I really miss since I switched over to Ubuntu is IrfanView. I’ve yet to find anything that works as well as a general purpose image viewer and lightweight editor. Usually wine would take care of that, but it didn’t seem to install.

Once I sat down and looked at the output of the errors though, it was pretty apparent that it was just missing a library called mfc42.dll. A quick google search for the missing library and then dropping it into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ and the program installed and ran without a hitch.