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September 30, 2008 Leave a comment
We often get asked how Digg works from a technology perspective, so wanted to shed some insight on this with our first post from the newly-launched technology blog. We
’ll be posting regularly to give you a peek at what’s under the hood from the Digg development teams.
September 17, 2008 Leave a comment
A basic tutorial about the Linux commands ssh and scp. It features explanation about the syntax, the possibilities and the differences between the two. It also features some tips and tricks that’ll come in handy when working with these programs.
June 2, 2008 Leave a comment
Announced today, Amazon SimpleDB is an amazingly simple, highly available, fast, massively scalable, on-demand, schema-free database cluster built in the same spirit as Amazon S3 and EC2. Check out this article and see what you can do with it.
February 7, 2008 Leave a comment
Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player
Play music. Play the Web. Powered by Mozilla
Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.
Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.
October 4, 2007 1 Comment
XP Run Commands / Short Cuts :1 – The New Tech
Windows XP Home / Pro Run Commands and Short Cuts
How To – Click Start, Click Run and enter the command Click OK
Run commands
Calc – Calculator
Cfgwiz32 – ISDN Configuration Wizard
Charmap – Character Map
Chkdisk – Repair damaged files
Cleanmgr – Cleans up hard drives
Clipbrd – Windows Clipboard viewer
Cmd – Opens a new Command Window cmd.exe
Control – Displays Control Panel
Dcomcnfg – DCOM user security
Debug – Assembly language programming tool
Defrag – Defragmentation tool
Drwatson – Records programs crash & snapshots
Dxdiag – DirectX Diagnostic Utility
Explorer – Windows Explorer
Fontview – Graphical font viewer
Ftp – ftp.exe program
Hostname – Returns Computers name
Ipconfig – Displays IP configuration for all network adapters
Jview – Microsoft Command-line Loader for Java classes
MMC – Microsoft Management Console
Msconfig – Configuration to edit startup files
Msinfo32 – Microsoft System Information Utility
Nbtstat – Displays stats and current connections using NetBios over TCP/IP
Netstat – Displays all active network connections
Nslookup- Returns your local DNS server
Ping – Sends data to a specified host/IP
Regedit – egistry Editor
Regsvr32 – egister/de-register DLL/OCX/ActiveX
Regwiz – Reistration wizard
Sfc /scannow – Sytem File Checker
Sndrec32 – Sound Recorder
Sndvol32 – Volume control for soundcard
Sysedit – Edit system startup files config.sys, autoexec.bat, win.ini, etc.
Taskmgr – Task manager
Telnet – Telnet program
Tracert – Traces and displays all paths required to reach an internet host
Winipcfg – Displays IP configuration
September 22, 2007 Leave a comment
OpenID is the only sign-up you’ll need in the future, but what about your profile? Sites you own or visit, people you know, etc. Alpha Dash is an idea about creating one online profile that would be totally yours and interchangeable with other services, using OpenID and microformats.
August 27, 2007 Leave a comment
So your sitting there on Saturday morning, sipping on a nice warm cup of coffee or tea, smell the freshness of the morning, and whipping up some html, CSS and trying out some new AJAX programming. Your stuck on something, you wish you had a quick cheat sheet to get you back on track.
August 24, 2007 Leave a comment
Official Google Blog: Controlling how search engines access and index your website
I’m often asked about how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control over which pages should appear in search results.
The key is a simple file called robots.txt that has been an industry standard for many years. It lets a site owner control how search engines access their web site. With robots.txt you can control access at multiple levels — the entire site, through individual directories, pages of a specific type, down to individual pages. Effective use of robots.txt gives you a lot of control over how your site is searched, but its not always obvious how to achieve exactly what you want. This is the first of a series of posts on how to use robots.txt to control access to your content.
August 24, 2007 Leave a comment
Coming from the same creators of 43 Things 43 Places, 43 People, Lists Of Bests, All Consuming.net, The Petri Project, The Robot Co-op has launched a new Website, ShouldDoThis.com, that allows any user to create a suggestion box and submit a suggestion for any company, product, government agency, non-profit, sports team, neighborhood association an
August 13, 2007 Leave a comment
This simple guide will bring up the Windows start menu inside GNOME and allow you to run, use and install any Windows app (that can run in a VM) inside your existing desktop. It takes about 10 minutes to setup, minus the time to install Windows, and involves one command in total.
