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two-step update to wordpress 2.7.1
i woke up with an update notice on the wordpress dashboard. i usually dread this event because it meant two days of updating nine wordpress installations that i keep. it takes two days because i have...
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cleaning up post revisions in wordpress
wordpress 2.7 introduced me to post revisions — these are draft copies of your posts. these copies are saved in your wordpress database along with your posts, comments, etc. sometimes my revisions it...
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flash cookie manager
flash stores its own version of cookies in your computer. they are formally called local shared objects — linux planet just calls them flash cookies. unlike ordinary cookies, these things are binary...
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worm on april fool’s and other things
i have been preoccupied of late with security stuff. the first one is what they’re calling conficker.c which will activate on the first of april. no one knows what it will do but i would bet a beer...
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alert on software copyright infringement
the stock papt introductory letter a client of mine recently received a letter from the pilipinas anti-piracy team shown on the left. with the exception of to whom the letter was addressed to, i...
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jaunty
i have here with me a temperamental laptop. it has a new hard drive, you see. i have reinstalled windows xp and religiously downloaded and applied all the updates. lately, it seems that the laptop has...
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a peek at windows se7en
interested in what windows seven would look like? to me it looks a lot like vista but more polished. but as i said before, windows se7en could be called vista service pack 1. you can take look for...
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what of openoffice?
oracle is buying sun. oracle is into databases in a big way. sun is home to sparc, solaris, java, open office, and recently, mysql. a lot of people have been blogging about what will come out of this...
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where to get help
this is a listing of helpful web sites of the software that are commonly found in a linux installation. most of these programs, with the exception of linux, also have a windows version. i’ll add more...
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a no os laptop
Note (2009.08.16): someone decided to sue lenovo denmark because they refuse to refund the price for windows vista even though it was clearly stated in the lenovo dk’s website they will refund the...
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