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More Coolness...

Posted Thu, 06/18/2009 - 05:57 by donmc

http://www.yaml.de/en/home.html
"Yet Another Multi-Column Layout" - incredible JAVA CSS layout engine.

http://www.ohloh.net/p?sort=users&q=training
Ohloh - this is an interesting site that examines the open source community projects out there from many different angles. Extremely cool.

http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/about_features.html

  • It is open source and therefore free of charge
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CSS Layout

Posted Thu, 06/18/2009 - 04:57 by admin

Standard Content Elements

Heading Levels

H1 Heading

H2 Heading

H3 Heading

H4 Heading

H5 Heading
H6 Heading

Paragraphs

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Cool sites from today

Posted Wed, 06/17/2009 - 15:10 by donmc

http://www.seobook.com/
"Seo Book is different. We focus our training program on how to grow your presence. Our tagline Learn. Rank. Dominate. matches our approach to teaching SEO. "

http://htmlpurifier.org/
"HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are standards compliant, something only achievable with a comprehensive knowledge of W3C's specifications. " Read more »

recent connection failures

Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 13:23 by donmc

We've had some issues recently, so I wanted to apologise for those and tell you that they are now resolved (or so my service provider tells me...)

here is a history for the last few weeks - look what a bad cable can do to your reliability!

This report is thanks to a free website uptime monitor from www.basicstate.com

JaxBeachtech.com connection failures:
Start ,  End, ??,   Ping failure count,  Current Status                  
2009-05-16 15:09    2009-05-16 15:10       0       1  resolved
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It begins - how Google can grow beyond Microsoft's wildest nightmares...

Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 06:16 by donmc

I have often wondered when Google would begin to develop an alternative to the windows platform - something for the rest of us...

But it is already out there in plain sight - just smuggled under the radar in the form of a "phone operating system".

Take a look at this post from Engadget - there is a video clip of a "smartbook" - an ASUS Eee PC prototype running google's "Android" on a 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. It is incredible, and the power use is so low that they didn't need to include a fan...

http://tinyurl.com/nqye48 Read more »

European open source adoption - Forrester Report

Posted Wed, 05/20/2009 - 07:41 by donmc
See: tdwi.org
Promo
A recently released survey report on OSS adoption in large European companies tracks some very interesting trends. The Executive summary included this:
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DL380 CLI History

Posted Tue, 05/05/2009 - 14:26 by donmc

sudo apt get install wget alien snmpd tcl8.3
sudo apt-get install wget alien snmpd tcl8.3
sudo sh HPasm-rpm2deb-sarge.sh
sudo dpkg -i hpasm_7.6.0-111_i386.deb
ls
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Emergency repair options for XP/2000

Posted Tue, 04/28/2009 - 06:52 by admin
From: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Troubleshooting-Star...

Troubleshooting is merely the methodical application of common sense and technical knowledge to the inevitable problems that crop up in a fallen world. If common sense can be codified (and perhaps it can with AI) then it starts with answers to simple questions like: Why? How? What? Read more »

HP ASM RPM Converter Script

Posted Sat, 04/25/2009 - 23:58 by donmc
From: http://www.asaiam.com/hpasmondebian.php


HPASM on Kubuntu Proliant M370

Proliant M370 server. I had to find a way to get the HPASM "HP advanced server management" software to run Linux. It controls the fan system and without it the box sounds like a jet engine. I read through the existing documentation, which is very helpful and where most of this came from... Thanks!

 

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Linux backup options

Posted Sat, 04/25/2009 - 15:58 by admin

I myself use this low-level-we-need-the-command-line-for-this method:
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3969

Or:
Take a look here .... the backup tool they discuss there is called "hubackup" and you can install it via "Synaptic":
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...89#post3795689

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