Tag: total freaking geekery
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PeppermintOS: Minty Fresh!
A while ago, I decided it was time to get a laptop. I’ve been meeting with local clients more and having a laptop handy would make a lot of that stuff go more smoothly. I’m also on the web committee for my kids’ school, and have had to borrow someone else’s laptop to do WordPress…
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Why dual-boot Linux when you can run it from a USB flash drive?
I’ve been a sideline fan of Linux for a long time. My very first experience with it was buying one of those 800 page, dictionary-sized technical manuals for Linux which came with Red Hat, Slackware and Caldera. I effectively destroyed my Windows 95 box trying to get Red Hat installed and failing. After that, I was much more cautious,…
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WordCamp Utah 2010 — a belated recap
One of the things I heard at WordCamp Utah was that it’s not what you learn at WordCamp as much as the research and stuff you learn once you get home and start trying all this stuff out. In that sense, I don’t think I actually left WordCamp at approximately 5:30 Saturday evening a few…
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Hack to In-Place “Downgrade” from Windows 7 Ultimate or Professional to Less Premium Editions
stumbled across this “duh” of a hack to allow up/downgrading (depending on your perspective) of a more premium version of windows 7 to a less premium version. why would you do this? if you were running a beta or rc version of windows 7 you can “upgrade” to a retail edition without wiping the system.…
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Easy javascript to spice up your search box and save space
class=”aligncenter” Hey again. Been super busy around here lately, but something I found made me want to share. This is a quick and easy trick that looks awesome and will save valuable space on your website. Ever seen those boxes where you enter your email address or a search and it says “enter search/name/whatever here”…
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Fixing bullet points (list items) in WordPress
As I was working today, I got a request to fix an issue in which bullet points and numbers for ordered lists were not displaying at all. The list would display, but the bullets would not, and this was especially frustrating when using an ordered (numbered) list. The problem To understand the problem, first you…