March 29th, 2007 at 3:02 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
Speed Up Google Analytics
This method uses crontab to execute a shell script that downloads an updated urchin.js file every 24 hours and saves it into your local sites directory. Thats it!
The problem occurs when google-analytics.com/urchin.js is requested by billions of web users all over the world at one time, it can cause your sites pages to load at a snails pace. Especially if you are using WordPress or a similar CMS.
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March 25th, 2007 at 12:00 pm (Linux Articles, Telecommunication, Technology Articles, Community News)
Overview
I wanted to access the internet over bluetooth instead of GPRS/3G network from my mobile phone (SE K800i). After a lot of searching I couldn’t find a clear explanation as how to accomplish this. I did manage to set it up with Windows XP, using the “Personal Area Network” in the bluetooth utility and doing internet connection sharing. After another fruitless search, I managed to figure out how to make a bluetooth internet profile instead of GPRS or 3G on the phone. Since I work in Linux most of the time, I decided to have a go and do it with Debian, my workstation’s main OS. After spending a few hours, I had it working using the steps below.
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March 21st, 2007 at 1:30 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 03/16/2007
This tutorial shows how you can display weather forecasts, system information like CPU and memory usage, news feeds, music player controls, etc. on a GNOME desktop with gDesklets. gDesklets is a programm that can place small desktop widgets on top of the user’s desktop.
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March 16th, 2007 at 9:19 am (Technology Articles, Community News)
The New York Times and C/Net have an insightful story today about Google’s latest addition to its data center called the Googleplex. It is massive. Read this excerpt from the article “
The rate at which the Google computing system has grown is as remarkable as its size. In March 2001, when the company was serving about 70 million Web pages daily, it had 8,000 computers, according to a Microsoft researcher granted anonymity to talk about a detailed tour he was given at one of Google’s Silicon Valley computing centers. By 2003 the number had grown to 100,000.
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March 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
Useful Commands For The Linux Command Line
This short guide shows some important commands for your daily work on the Linux command line.
arch
Outputs the processor architecture.
$ arch
i686
cat
Outputs the contents of a file.
$ cat lorem.txt
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March 8th, 2007 at 10:38 pm (Linux Articles, Community News, Windows Articles)
The largest dilemma I continue to face coming from Windows to OS X is an ideal web browser. For Windows users, it’s an obvious choice, Firefox. It’s fast, it’s got tabs, extensions, themes, inline searching, spell checking, you can even run IE as a tab within Firefox, it has everything. Why would you use anything else?
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March 4th, 2007 at 1:52 pm (Linux Articles, Mobile Phones, Community News)
I ended my previous article (Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet) by saying that the release of the OS 2006 prepared the way for some serious VOIP work. The 770 can now make SIP-based VOIP phone calls and is more like what you’d expect from Nokia–a phone!
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