opinion-and-editorial
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Can I use Ozh’s random words plugin for WordPress in custom fields?
I had this idea to use Ozh’s random words. I use this cool plugin throughout my sites to give them a fresh look for recurring visitors, for example, on the Know Thyself page, the quote that shows up on the 2nd paragraph is randomized with this cool plugin. What if I want to use it…
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What’s the difference between jdk…bin and jdk…-rpm.bin?
When you’re installing jdks for linux, you’ll often find two different versions, one that is named something like this: jdk-6u14-linux-x64.bin and another one like thisjdk-6u14-linux-x64-rpm.bin. So what is the difference? One of them is a generic package suitable for most Linux installations that don’t use RPMs. The other one, is, you guessed it, for RPM…
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Godaddy
Godaddy is the world’s biggest –and in my opinion, best Registrar. I have over 90 domains with them now and unless they don’t sell a TLD like .cx, or .it, I always use them. Once you have an account, setting up new domains takes only a couple of clicks. One thing I don’t like too…
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XYZ Inc
XYZ Inc, is my version of the commonly used term XYZ Corporation. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it is often used in economics classes and discussions to represent “any” company. XYZ Corporation usually makes widgets and has to transport them from location A to location B; or so the discussion goes. I call XYZ…
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Idea for another plugin
I’m looking for a plugin that puts the blog into “edit” mode as I would want it so that I could review posts and make corrections on the fly. Requirements: Theme independent. Plugin friendly. Integrate to WordPress built-in revision system. ((This means you could switch to each revision and it would just update on the…
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Anaconda
Anaconda is the installer for Red Hat Linux and Fedora and other distros based on these. It features a full graphical interface and also a text only console. It supports many different types of installation and you can even script a whole installation with the complimens of a kickstart file which tells Anaconda how to…
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Kern River Camping
[singlepic id=5 h=440 float=left]Recently I had a chance to camp out with my Wife and some friends; we had a blast. We went to Kern River and it was pretty damn cool. It was a short trip, we left on Friday morning and came back Sunday night. When I was younger I would go camping…
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Adding a driver to kickstart AND driverdisk
The previous post explained that I was able to add the Realtek driver to the PXE boot Kickstart environment. However the driver would not be available or activated on the new machine for some reason. My guess is that I needed to add the driver not just to the Kickstart environment but also as a…
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All in One Gestures Addon breaks spell checker
For the longest time, I’ve had a problem in Firefox where I can’t use the built-in spell checker; the suggested corrected words don’t show up for me to pick from one of them. This blows! This morning I decided to end this suffering and find the problem, surely it had to be an extension. I…
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Using e.g. vs i.e.
Contrary to popular belief, e.g. and i.e. aren’t interchangeable, and they mean different things. The easiest way to remember when to use i.e. vs e.g. is to listen how it would make your phrase sound if you substituted them with their true meaning. i.e. stands for id est from latin, which really means “in other…