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Real SEO

I've been looking at SEO and finding that there is more to it than just links and keywords. One of the more important things is that the website has good content. Meaning something that a real human will find compelling and worth reading. Googles algorithm appears to...

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Lucid Chart – Online Visio Replacement

Lucid Chart – Online Visio Replacement

Just discovered Lucid Charts. It is a diagramming program you can run in your browser. First look: Feature Rich - Provides generic Network and Network Infrastructure Shapes. It provides Cisco, Azure and AWS shapes and a heap of 'clip-art' network and equipment shapes...

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Am I my Et Cetera’s Keeper?

Just discovered etckeeper yum install etckeeper etckeeper init -d /etc etckeeper commit "Inital Commit" Once you have done the above, your /etc will be under git version control.  You can then make changes to configuration files in /etc/* and etckeeper will...

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Attitude Diseases

Indifference (drift) (Hot or cold not lukewarm) What if it’s the wrong direction? Even if you go in the wrong direction but with feeling you’ll find out quicker and can adjust. Inspiration or desperation Strong Feeling people do better than people you need to...

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DNS Propagation Test Site

DNS Propagation Test Site

This is a handy site if you are wondering why some parts of the global internet are still resolving an old IP address after a DNS record update. https://www.whatsmydns.net Go to the above site, enter your domain name and wulah!

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Docker LOL

Docker LOL

Just bought copy of www.dockerbook.com and am running through the code samples as I read. Just did a docker ps -a and noticed one of the auto-named containers was "condescending_torvalds". Wondering now what other names Linus will be called as I keep doing the...

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C struct written to file loses settings

C struct written to file loses settings

I am having an issue with a Siemens WinCC control system that writes C struct data to files on disk under windows. The C function in the control system (see below) reads the Tag values from the user interface into a struct and then writes it to disk with a call to...

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