Posts Tagged ‘tips’

Lucky Day

This will be a some­what scat­ter­brained… err, ran­dom post. First off if you are hav­ing prob­lems with a cer­tain con­test, then plug­ging the secret let­ters into the Inter­net Ana­gram Server could be very help­ful. I like RPGs and play in a cou­ple now & then.  I have also run the occa­sional ses­sion or two, but lately […]

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Linux CLI Tip

Some­times when you’re star­ing the bash prompt, you want to be able to see if a spe­cific pro­gram is cur­rently run­ning. There are a cou­ple of ways to do this; gen­er­ally I run: ps –ef | grep Pro­gram­Name How­ever I once saw a tip for doing some­thing sim­i­lar with top but I lost the link […]

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Problems with Norton AntiVirus 2006 and ODBC Connections

While I run Kubuntu as my pri­mary OS on all my home machines, my work machine has Win­dows XP on it.  Recently our IT dept installed Nor­ton AntiVirus 2006 on all our machines.  Some peo­ple had prob­lems with this imme­di­ately, while oth­ers (like myself) had not noticed any prob­lems.  Then today I tried to export […]

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Web Design for Business Owners

In my day job, I deal with mas­sive data­bases of busi­ness list­ing infor­ma­tion. Occa­sion­ally, I am required to go through those list­ings to review the sites attached to the list­ings. And for the love of god, peo­ple you’re mak­ing my eyes bleed. In hopes that some of you out there find this blog post and […]

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Windows Tips

This post was inspired by a recent arti­cle over at Life­Hacker. But before I get into the tips, I’m going to bore you with a slight digres­sion. Life­Hacker is one of the very few blogs that I actu­ally check daily for new con­tent. And I’m not talk­ing about using an agre­ga­tor, I will actu­ally pop […]

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