I read a post today on Zonker’s blog called Selling vs. shaming. In it, the author argues that it’s better to have non-free software loaded on a mostly free software system if it pleases the user, rather than have a pure free software system that doesn’t meet the user’s wants or needs. I couldn’t agree …
Continue reading Re: Selling vs. ShamingToday I was trying to debug why my Feedburner feed would not display properly in Google’s Chrome browser. What I discovered was that there was some code creating errors in my site’s original RSS feed. After a bit of searching on the offending code, I ran across a post on my hosting provider’s support forum.
Continue reading TuxTweaks Got HackedGet Google Chrome on Linux If you’ve been waiting impatiently for Google Chrome on Linux, there is now a developer version available for Ubuntu and Debian systems (x86 and x86-64-bit only). The first step to installing it is to go to Dev Channel on chromium.org and download the appropriate .deb package file for your architecture. …
Continue reading Test Driving Google Chrome on LinuxOne of the things you may find you want to do often from your command line is to view the contents of a text file. This could be to view the contents of some startup script or just one of your own basic configuration files like .bashrc or .bash_aliases. The command is simple to use. …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: View Text Files with moreToday, Microsoft released a new, free (free as in Free Beer) antivirus program called Microsoft Security Essentials. This new program is available for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista and Windows 7 32-bit, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit operating systems.
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