opinion-and-editorial
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Google Video
I was recently tasked with making sure videos work properly on our website. After some tweaking and debugging, I found that the videos work great. We’re using a plugin to let us use a very simple notation to add a video. The plugin is by Joshua Eldridge and it uses Jeron Wijering’s FLV Media Player.…
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PXE Network Boot Server update
I’m very excited about the progress on my network boot server. I got it working yesterday, and it is pretty sweet so far. I’ve had tons of help from a few people and a number of online resources. Steve K. and his knowledge of Unix, TCP, and Linux’ obscure intricacies combined with years of experience…
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Covers of old songs
John Mayer has a couple of good covers I like and just discovered recently, I found them through Pandora. I think its good to remake old songs, they connect with the current generation and preserve our culture. Who dares say Americans have no culture? This IS our culture, our music, our traditions, and its worth…
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Take care of your incoming links
When you’re using a WordPress blog, or any other type of website, you should pay attention to your incoming links. WordPress makes it really easy to do so with a nice module right on the dashboard. This is how it looks when you first install WordPress and until you get the first incoming link. What…
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Knoppix
Koppix is a kick ass Linux distribution I use regularly to troubleshoot problems, diagnose bottlenecks, data recovery, showing off linux, or just to have a linux installation that works in an unfamiliar or hostile enviroment. It generally is run from a disc and it runs in memory so you don’t have to install it on…
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Another day at the appliance cloning project
I finally got one of the appliances to boot into a Ghostzilla instance and I was able to dump its cloned image via NFS to a storage unit that is available for this sort of thing. It was all great and working up to this point, but the next step was to test out the…
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what’s a technophile?
This is what wikipedia had to say about it, and I mostly agree. The technophile sees most or all technology as positive, adopting technology enthusiastically, and seeing it as a means to potentially improve life and combat social problems. I think that kinda fits most hackers and it certainly fits me.
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Moving back office services from one domain to another with Google Apps
Google has great tools to help you migrate *into* google mail. They support a number of sources, but they lack in the ability to move from one Googlemail (aka google for domains) to another Google for domains account. For example, how do you safely, completely, accurately and quickly move from googlemail system on www.example.com to…
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Even the White House is going social.
If this isn’t enough of a sign for you to consider your position on social media then I don’t know what could help you. Here is a prime example of how the social media is changing our world. Government is always slow to adopt new things. They are so big that it must be extremely…
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Getting started with Blogging.
A long time goal of mine has been to be a blogger. My first blog started back in 2001, and I’ve since gone through about a half dozen different blogs and at least that many different blog platforms. I have learned quite a bit. So I would like to show you how to blog, primarily…