Archive for September, 2006
incoming RSS feeds on wp
Friday, September 29th, 2006Shaolin Tiger’s “How to Use RSS Feeds on Your WordPress Site”
from Adding RSS Feeds to WordPress
One issue I did come up against is that although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template, you cannot put these into the content of a Page and expect them to run. This meant I [...]
Use Excel to make a timeline
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006The Microsoft Education Center has a good step by step tutorial on how to make a timeline in Excel.
Whether you’re looking to make a somewhat involved chronological timeline, or just a simple from Point A to Point B kind of deal, this tutorial’s got you covered. Create a Timeline in Excel [Microsoft Education Center]
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Getting started with Bit Torrent
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Idolator has a guide to getting your tunes using BitTorrent. Pretty basic, but worth it just for the Lars Ulrich crack in the drawbacks section.
Blond and Danish or not, do be careful broadcasting your IP address with BT – Check out some info on anonymous BT so you can at least try to hide.
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Blogging from Space
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Anousheh Ansari Space Blog
This is the a blog by / on behalf of the first woman space tourist to head into space. According to this BBC article, “Ms Ansari says she will write the first blog from space.”
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How to get rid of startup programs (XP only, sorry)
Thursday, September 7th, 2006I recently removed some programs from my home PC. however, the uninstall process didn’t work properly for some of them, and while the executable or DLLs have gone, there are still some references to them. This causes an error at startup. It’s just a windows dialog box that I click OPK to, [...]
rsync roundup
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006You use more computers and operating systems to get your work done today than ever before. But how do you keep your files synchronized between them? Plenty of OS-specific tools can mirror folders, but you need something cross-platform and highly customizable. You need the 10-year-old command line file mirroring utility called rsync.
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“Security Engineering” Is Now Online
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006Ross Anderson, author of ‘Security Engineering’, notifies in a message to comp.risks that he just got permission from Wiley to let anyone download the full content of his book for free. This is one of the best books on computer security and it is used as textbook in many University courses .
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How Much Virtual Memory is Enough?
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006Ten years ago, Common Wisdom said that virtual memory should be, on the average, two to two-and-a-half times real memory. In these days, where 2G RAM is not unusual, and many times is not that uncommon, is this unreasonable? What is a reasonable size for swap these days?
It appears that there is no real [...]
