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Networking,
Server
I’ve posted more than once about tips we can complete to improve our web surfing. This morning I was cleaning out some old hardware (to take to the recycling centre) when I happened upon one of the last old laptops I had.
It’s an older IBM Thinkpad T22, Type 2647 with 256MB of RAM and a [...]
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Tricks
Have you ever had several copies of the same file on your PC? I tend to make duplicates of files before I edit them, this is especially true with graphic or video files – even config files for that matter. That way, when I make serious mistakes, I can always go back to square one.
The [...]
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Desktop,
Ubuntu
Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]
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Multimedia,
Ubuntu
For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network).
In some ways I
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Software
I’ve seen a few posts over here regarding problems with an unmaintained Wordpress installation. It definitely can be work to manage software that is not covered within the supported repositories (WP is in the repositories, but its not updated as frequently as upstream). I thought I would cover how I maintain my installations [...]
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PrestaShop
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I have found an alternative for Zen Cart shopping Cart – it is PrestaShop. PrestaShop is a new and easily maintained shopping cart. It doesn’t have all the features, I need, but I’ve been promised, that [...]