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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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Check what your IP address is Online

There are many services that do this but looking in the Debian distributions package change logs I noticed that they are using http://checkip.dyndns.org/ to return your globally recognized IP address. And it returns a very nice sparse reply as follows. [code...

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Website Speed Up

Just discovered my traffic to this website has dropped by about 50% not sure why, could be the vagaries of searching engine ranking. Update: Apparently there has been some 52 algorithm changes on Google in April alone so I think I may be the victim of the Google SEO...

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