opinion-and-editorial
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Fixing nextgen gallery after upgrade 1.4.1
Nextgen Gallery is awesome, it displays images in your WordPress installation in a way that is very customizable and using the plugin itself is a breeze. Recently it got updated to version ~~1.3.4~~ 3.1.5 1.4.1. If you’re using a custom template, this upgrade most likely broke your installation. The reason seems to be that the…
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MySQL Administrator
The MySQL Administrator is a GUI for the popular MySQL Database. I find it very useful to manage databases. It works well. I find it useful right after I give myself remote access permissions. This way I can access mysql server instances from a remote location. Most hosts ((Dreamhost allows this btw.)) will allow you…
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Awk VS Sed
What’s the difference between sed and awk? I don’t know, I really don’t care too much, but I do care to know which one I should be using for different tasks. I do know that sed seems easier to use than awk. I may sometime get around to writing some tips, tricks and differences between…
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JeOS
Just enough Operating System, JeOS, pronounced like Juice. Is a term used to describe an operating system that has been stripped down from unecessary packages. It is a bare bones system for all intents and purposes. Some of the JeOS releases have optimized kernels for various virtualization platforms making this type of distro favorable if…
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Tree
Tree is a simple and unique utility. It sticks to the Unix motto of doing one thing and doing it well. As stated in the info page, it list contents of directories in a tree-like format If you’re a visual kind of person, this utility is very useful at times. I use it when I…
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Columns on WordPress posts
Last night, as I was writing one of the posts for my blogging tutorial series, I wanted a way to get columns working in a post. Newspaper style, or magazine style some may call it. I thought it would be really cool if I could wrap content around short tags that would automatically make columns.…
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Multiple Profiles in Firefox
Firefox has a neat built in feature that allows you to have multiple profiles in one computer. It can serve many different purposes, for example, if you share one computer with multiple people, each person can have their own profile. If you’re a parent and want to maintain some basic controls on your children’s internet…
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Robots that eat bugs to earn their keep!
Check these out! Two guys from the UK designed a series of robots that mimic some of the carnivorous plants in the wild. Well, kind of. These robots are functional, like a lamp that attracts bugs, and then “eats” them so it can continue to provide light. That’s cool. Or a mechanical art piece –I…
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et alia, What is it? When should you use it?
Rather it should be et aliæ , or et alii depending on whether the subjects are female or male respectively. Roughly means “the rest.” Apparently you can use et alli or the abbreviation: et al. for groups with both men and women making the whole gender issue a moot one. I’ve seen this used before,…
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What’s a euphemism?
A euphemism is a way of saying something with words that are nicer. It replaces a more coarse term or name, and it usually makes it sound good or not as bad as the original. Most politically correct terms are euphemisms. For example, instead of calling somebody fat, you’d call them big boned or curvy.…