archive | April, 2009

Warn visitors to upgrade from Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) with a simple JavaScript

You can use a simple JavaScript to warn your visitors that Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is an outdated and hugely non-standards-compliant web browser.

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Get a Mac – V Word

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Ubuntu Linux Quick Tip – Mount a Samba (Windows) file share to a folder

To mount a Samba (Windows) file share to a folder in Ubuntu Linux, you need to have Samba Filesystem Support installed, then use the ‘mount’ command.

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Checking your internal and external IP Addresses on a Unix machine

If you need to reference your LAN and WAN IP Addresses on a Unix machine, you can do so relatively easily from the command line.

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Enabling Terminal’s directory and file color highlighting in Mac OS X

Mac OS X’s Terminal application uses the Bash shell but doesn’t have color highlighting to indicate resource types and permissions settings enabled by default.

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SA Blog Awards winners and highlights video

The 2009 South African Blog Awards ceremony was held in Cape Town last Friday (the 3rd of April), and Geekology achieved a runner-up position in the Best New Blog category.

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Displaying MySQL CLI query output vertically

The MySQL CLI is a great tool to test queries, but output containing many columns usually breaks onto new lines, rendering the results unreadable.

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Portable Ubuntu for Windows

Portable Ubuntu is a distribution that can run off of a flash drive as a Windows application with access to your Windows files and persistent system changes.

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