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Compress your CSS Files

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

Almost all websites are now utilizing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) as their main tool for website design and layout. Often times these files get large. Many programmers like to add additional tags to fix small portions of their site in … Continue reading →

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In-line Spell Checking with Opera

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

I love Opera and I am excited to be using the latest version Opera 9.5 that came out just a few days ago. With the new features, fixes, and new Dragonfly Webdeveloper Tool I believe that Opera is pulling away … Continue reading →

Posted in Howto, Software | 7 Comments

Using Gmail with Mutt and IMAP

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

I am not quite sure why it is but there are always people that want to do things faster and more efficient, even if the current system is working fine. I have to admit I love to tweak things to … Continue reading →

Posted in Howto, Linux | 3 Comments

“Rick Rolling” Your Hard Drive

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

If you remember back to my article about dd you will remember that it is a very powerful utility for writing to hard drives. In this post we are going to use it to “rick roll” the hard drive. I … Continue reading →

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Using wget to Download Youtube Videos

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

Today I am going to show you a neat way of downloading Youtube videos using wget. Most Linux distros will come with wget. If you don’t have it, check with your distro for instructions on how to install it. Windows … Continue reading →

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Use Rsync for Daily, Weekly and Full Monthly Backups

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

Today, we will be using rsync to make daily, weekly, incremental backups and then a full compressed/archived backup once a month. We will then use cron to automate the process. Lets face it us humans get lazy sometimes and most … Continue reading →

Posted in FreeBSD, Howto, Linux | 14 Comments

Duplicating a CD with DD

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

Want to make an exact copy of a CD without installing k3b or some other burning software? You can do it in Linux/Freebsd with one line of code using dd. The nice thing about dd is that it will make … Continue reading →

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Wiping a Hard Drive with DD

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Mark Sanborn

A common assumption is that deleting or formatting a hard drive will be enough but in fact the data is still recoverable. In fact is fairly trivial and the process is quite easy to restore them. For this reason security … Continue reading →

Posted in Howto, Security | 4 Comments
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