I am a complete newbie in the Unix/Linux world. I used some Unix workstations at university, but I never really had a very clear understanding of how they worked, so I think I can safely downgrade myself to “absolute beginner”. I have decided to jump into the world of Linux...
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Recommended Reading: Your Friends' Blogs
I don’t have any books to recommend right now, but I do have a recommendation about an easy way to keep up with your friends’ blogs and websites. If you use an online “site aggregator” like Google Reader, you can subscribe to your friends’ websites and blogs and be notified...
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If you send a long link to someone by email, sometimes the receiver’s email client breaks the line after a certain number of characters, thereby breaking the link. If it looks like your link won’t fit on a single line, consider making a shorter link on the TinyURL site and...
Continue reading...Someone Copied my Blog
Moments after I posted some articles about adding Picasa slideshows to websites, a rogue blogger stole my content and posted it VERBATIM to his own blog. I am certain that this was an automated attack and that it was nothing personal. (It was too fast to be otherwise.) I checked...
Continue reading...How to Embed Picasa Web Album Slideshows into WordPress.com Blogs
As an addendum to the post that I just wrote about adding a slideshow to your website, I would like to add some more information about adding a Picasa slideshow to a site that is hosted on http://www.wordpress.com. It is not possible to embed Picasa slideshows into websites that are...
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One of my friends asked me how to add a slideshow like the one above to a website. Here is what I told her. 1. Get a gmail account (http://www.gmail.com) if you don’t already have one. If you think that you will do this often for the particular website, make...
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