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replacing disfuctioning Marvel ethernet controller

February 14, 2009
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There were problems in the past with the sky2 driver and it still seems to act up once in a while. to replace it and to have sure the new card is detected as eth0 i did the following afterwards since it was running fine the first two weeks or so. i disabled the...

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make a debian installation usb

February 14, 2009
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make a debian installation usb To download the installer we do as follows $ wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz and we will also need the same iso file as when making an installation cd $ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-40r2-amd64-netinst.iso The exact mountpoint of the usb can be found with $ fdisk -l Assuming your usb is mounted as /dev/sda...

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Lets make a sitemap

February 14, 2009
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Apparently most of the search engines can make use of sitemaps, basically a .xml file with links to pages on your site, the date they were modified and some hint on how often you think the content on each of the mentioned pages will be refreshed. I undertand why this could be a useful...

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Change the links to something readable

February 14, 2009
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The default link to a page or post in wordpress looks  something like this http://www.songshu.org/?p=123 , the page is indicated with a number and since we use DNS because humans do not remember 32 bits addresses it make sense for our readers to change this default in to something more readable, also it will...

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Theming this site

February 14, 2009
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Since the purpose of this site is to SEO this site and its content i decided not to go for a stylish look but a rather dull and plain “newspaper like” appearance with lots of changing content on the front page. The “magazine basic” thime by c.bavota seems like a nice theme to start...

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OoOps!!!!! Screwed this site up….. again!!!

February 14, 2009
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Just in case somebody actually cares and was hoping to find some useful stuff on this site, i would like to say sorry, again, for messing up the content on this domain. What happened?

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Set up an e-mail account

January 23, 2009
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Set up an e-mail account

Lets setup an e-mail account in Thunderbird. First make sure you have the following details available. e-mail adress: username: incoming server: outgoing server: When we have all these available we need to start Thunderbird. if you do not have Thunderbird installed already you can download it in your own language here first.

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Reply above the quote & Forward messages inline

January 23, 2009
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Reply above the quote & Forward messages inline

Lets change some settings in Thunderbird. Many will hate us thoroughly for what we are about to do, but many more will be confused if we don’t. First we select “edit” and go to “preferences”

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Attach a signature to your mails

January 23, 2009
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Attach a signature to your mails

Setting up some text to appear below every e-mail we make. First we need to prepare a little text file with a program like Mousepad or Word Pad or note pad (no MS Word or OpenOffice)

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