I wish I needed this Fix
. . . but you may. How to use more than 4GB RAM on a 32 bit Ubuntu installation.
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WordPress 2.7 and Themes
This is just a quick note on themes. I haven’t designed any WordPress themes from scratch, but I have heavily customized a few, and each of these will have to be modified to work with the comment threading, provided I want that feature on the particular blogs. Comments on this blog, for example, are few…
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.7
As is usual, I chose this site as the first guinea pig, and it is now upgraded. So far everything looks good. I follow the beta test chatter, and usually try to install the release candidates somewhere and play with them, but this is the first production install. So far I’m very impressed with the…
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A Tale of Unbelievable Stupidity
A middle school teacher in Austin, Texas confiscated Linux disks from a student, because, she told him, it was not possible that Linux was free and what he was doing was illegal. Storis on blog of Helios and nixCraft.
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Quick WMV -> MP4 Conversion
Well, it’s quick if you use Google Video. Thing is, I use Google Video pretty frequently, and I needed an MP4 of a file in WMV format which I had already uploaded. After a few minutes of searching for the right app that would give me a nice, compatible file for a podcast, I realized…
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Ubuntu Tips
Since Ubuntu is my Linux of choice, I was excited to find this set of tips for getting more out of it. HT: nixCraft.
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Using Audicity with Ubuntu and PulseAudio
Read this page from the PulseAudio Wiki. It’s one of those really super single pages that solve many problems. May their number increase!
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Netbeans 6.5 Released
You can read about it here or just go and download it here. Netbeans has become my editor of choice for working with PHP. At first I found it a bit clumsy due to the many things I was not used to having. But over time I have found it very helpful in preventing those…
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Info on Rootkits
TechRepublic’s 10 Things blog has a pretty good rundown. I’ve recently had to explain the very basics of rootkits to an occasional curious customer.
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A Simple Variable Width Header in CSS
This example is actually simpler than most of what you’ll find on the web, and you need to build on it, but I often want to see a simple, stripped down example, so I thought I’d post it. I wanted to take existing header and footer graphics and adapt them to a wider page, preferably…