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Archive for August, 2006

Gentoo 2006.1 Released

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

As you should know by now I’m a big fan of Gentoo Linux, I use it exclusively at home for a couple of my boxes.  Now their latest version has been released, why it doesn’t effect me, I’m always up to date with my boxes using the latest unstable builds.  For those new users who […]

Linspire frees CNR (Click n Run)

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

So for those Linux geeks out there, and for those users who want to try Linux Linspire the makers of Freespire and Linspire Linux distributions have made their basic CNR service free.  It used to be 20 dollars but now its free for all, so even more of a reason to give it a try, […]

Windows Vista Pre RC1 Available

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

It seems Microsoft is making available for a limited time the download for the latest Vista beta, its a lead up to the official release of RC1, there have been lots of good praise about this latest release.  Its faster and less buggy, and uses less Ram ,which of course is a plus, even though […]

Adsense Alternatives

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

For those who are trying to make money blogging this is a good list of alternatives to Adsense advertising, there are a few on here I’ve not heard of.  The list is pretty comprehensive, 84 different advertising solutions that I’m pretty sure one will fit your needs.  Take a look at it here.

Wordpress as a CMS

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Now I found an interesting set of articles posted here in regards to using Wordpress as a CMS.  Its very interesting that I happen to find this today of all days because I’ve been figuring out the best approach to a new site I’m working on. 
The new site isn’t going to be a blog […]

Technorati Issues

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

So it seems my blog is 8 days out of date on Technorati right now and I’m not sure why it would suddenly stop being indexed when it was fine up until then. The funny thing is I’ve updated this blog every day for the most part since then and even to the point […]

Bad Software

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Now I’ve been using a computer for a long time and I know what I like. The one thing that drives me a little nuts is that sometimes you see software that is so poorly written you wonder why it was realized. A lot of that exists in the freeware world, the ironic […]

Gentoo

Friday, August 25th, 2006

So I am a big fan of the Gentoo Linux distribution.  I’ve been using it now daily for over 4 years.  Now I’ve used it many different ways, I currently use it for my Firewall/Gateway machine for my local LAN, I also use it for my MythTV box, and I’ve also used it on the […]

Blog Exchanges Part 2

Friday, August 25th, 2006

So I figured I would follow up with my experience with Blog Exchanges and how they don’t work and why I probably will never use them again.
A little introduction, I found out about a few blog exchanges through a friend who has their own blog, I decided hey that’s a good idea, and signed up […]

Star Wars Last Supper

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

So I’m browsing through Digg like I do now every morning it seems to find good stuff to post about and this came to my attention and all I can say is its fantastic, the artwork is amazing.  I myself have no artistic talent, I traded it in for geek talent, figuring that being a […]