opinion-and-editorial
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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…
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First post at notagrouch.com
So today is the first post on the new domain. I haven’t decided if I’ll bring any of the posts over from my old site. I have a new direction in how I’m going to blog and maybe I don’t need all the old articles, most of them have very little original value and a…
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Its time for the iphones or iTunes to do this
Old post from my old site. It’s a short rant about not being able to synchronize your iDevices with multiple iTunes Libraries. I would like to know how to synchronize an iphone or ipad, or itouch or even an ipod with my iTunes library on my MacBook Pro, and also with my iMac at work,…
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Canned Responses, a Cool new Gmail feature.
Do you find yourself replying to the same messages repeatedly? The days of typing or copying and pasting similar responses by hand are over. Gmail recently introduced “canned responses” to their labs. This new feature allows you to have pre-defined e-mail responses ready to go. Instead of spending time replying to all the inquires that…