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Entries from April 2007

Shelter from the Storm

April 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Here’s a video of Bob Dylan playing Shelter from the Storm. Enjoy.


The rest of the concert is available on this page at Youtube.

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Tags: Music · video

Take Back the GRUB!

April 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Situation
I have 4 operating systems on my main drive: One unused, one for everyday use, and two for testing.

Windows XP
Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Kubuntu latest release, testing
Mepis

The Feisty Fawn is my preferred OS. I want it to control GRUB. A problem arises when I install a new Linux distribution in one of my testing partitions. If [...]

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Tags: Linux

Linux Games

April 25th, 2007 · No Comments

There are only so many hours in a day that a person can build websites and stumble without it becoming monotonous. Hours of code research, revisions, and review… dozens of stumbled pages with random and insistent information… It can become overwhelming. The intelligent computer user avoids this peril by breaking from their labors to [...]

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Tags: Games · Linux

All in One

April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

All in One …a new game for two to four players developed by my eight year old daughter. It has math and chance and lots of action. Rounds take from five to ten minutesĀ  and the whole game can last from thirty minutes to hours.
You need:

One deck of cards less the aces and kings.
Dice.
Gamepieces for [...]

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Tags: Games

Adsense on Gallery2, Zen Cart. and Wordpress

April 20th, 2007 · No Comments

In an effort to cover my hosting fees I created a google adsense account. With three different content management applications, posting the ads on my sites was no easy matter. Here is a rough guide:
Gallery2
Follow instructions here replacing “end” tags with ‘, a single apostrophe.
Create local template directory. Create adsense tpl file. Copy album, photo, [...]

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Tags: Web development