A New Look and a Slight Name Change

A New Template With Googles recent (April) algorithm changes my website suffered a 50% drop in traffic. So I thought it was time to go for new theme. I have chosen a HTML5 theme named FavePersonal from Crowd Favorite. It's got a lot of features that I'm still learning...

Update Start-Up Links Dansguardian

Dansguardian will not start up if it's Proxy Server (Squid) isn't available. The startup default links are S20dansguardian and S20squid. So squid is starting after dansguardian. /etc/rc6.d/K20dansguardian /etc/rc2.d/S20dansguardian /etc/rc4.d/S20dansguardian...

Acrobat Reader install Fedora 17 Beta

yum install glibc.i686 yum install libxml2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gdk-pixbuf2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gtk-x11.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gtk2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install...

Google Public DNS

Just discovered that Google has some Public DNS servers that you can use. More details here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Pro Given that Googles infrastructure is global and rock solid I presume that the DNS service will be just as good. Con...

Fedora 17 FTW

Just installed Fedora 17 Beta into a Virtualbox VM and two things I notice. It's an evolutionary improvement to Fedora 16, and the Gnome 3 interface is miles ahead of Ubuntu 12.04's Unity desktop. (OK, I admit I can't get used to Unity's left dominant menu style.)...

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James is an IT Professional based in Melbourne, Australia. He blogs about Information Technology, Open Source software, home renovations, good reads and travel.

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