Well a couple of weeks ago I decided to start playing with some Linux distro’s. This just happen to be on accident. I read somewhere about small portable OS’s that you can run off a Live CD or you can even make a bootable USB drive. I decided to Google “Portable OS”. This is also an expansion for my love of portable apps. Low and behold the first link I came up with was for one of my favorite sites Lifehacker.com. I was pleasantly surprised that their article – Six Best Portable Operating Systems was the first to pop...

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Are you tired of getting that pesky pop-up when you start up Windows wanting you to verify your copy of windows? That Windows Genuine Advantage box. Most important let’s disable it first then we’ll see what it is! For disabling it I got the information from here - http://gideonmiranda.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/how-to-disable-windows-genuine-advantage-notification-in-3-simple-steps/ Which was linked to here - http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-disable-windows-genuine-advantage-notification-in-3-simple-steps/ HOW TO DISABLE IT – Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications: 1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option...

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I was on my way to bed this evening when @fevvynoriegaah contacted me on Twitter. I was just finishing watching the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans opening 2009 NFL season game. Here is what this persons Tweet said. @pratts_pub I’m sure you have heard but if not Google is hiring users online for work. You can read it at http://bit.ly/11G7bS It’s very … BEWARE – The link in that tweet is what I am warning you of. I of course can not swear that this particular link is a scam, but my gut says that it is and I...

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Like I have said. This site is a little about everything. It is also a place for me to keep examples of scripts that I use from time to time in case I loose them. Misplacing items is a very common things for me, just ask my wife. Anyway, whenever possible I will give credit to whoever or where ever I found the code. In this case I have been holding onto the code for awhile and really have no idea where I got it. So if it’s yours, speak up!

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Looking for a chat program to add to your WordPress or WordPress MU site. I recommend FlashChat from the guys at TUFaT.com. FlashChat has a very nice interface and configuration that is pretty easy to figure out and customize. You can add custom themes as well as customize how the chat program is used by others and what kind of privileges others have. And I really recommend taking full advantage for their message boards as well. Just make sure you search around a little first and make sure your question has not already been answered. In this article I...

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When did this happen? Just a couple of days ago it seems like I noticed the WordPress MU 2.8.1 is available! Please update nag tag. I didn’t even know WordPressMu 2.8 had come out. Turns out that it has not. Most of the info in this post comes from Andrea at WordPressMu Tutorials. Another site that I have now discovered and am subscribed to. Definitely worth keeping an eye on. I will let you read Andea’s post but there are a couple of items I would like to hit on mostly because they concern me. For starters Andy over...

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Well, I guess part of what I will do here is review some websites.  Well, I won’t regularly reviewing website and I don’t even know if I will call it them reviews.  Mainly because I can’t imagine really taking the time to write about any website unless I really like it. That brings us to one of my favorite websites – LifeHacker.com.  When I first found this site, and I can’t remember when or how that was I thought it had a cool name, but didn’t really understand it.  Once I got to digging around the site I realized...

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Have you heard about portable apps (applications)?  About a year ago a co-worker told me about them.  Applications that you can run on a USB stick “independent” of the computer.  By independent I mean the applications are not installed on your computer at all, they are run right from the USB stick. Great, so what.  Why would I want that?  Well there are several reasons.  Maybe you jump from computer to computer alot and having your applications on a thumb drive would be nice so that you don’t have to install many applications on many different computers. This reason...

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Since I am new to WordPress MU that is what I am primarily going to be wwriting about in the near futur probably. My site Racing News Digest has a lot of pictures associated with the main page. I use NexGen Gallery to manage those photos. Each current driver and track has a photo stored and associated with NexGen Gallery. NexGen Gallery is not important here because it does not matter how you are uploading and maintaining files, it only matters how much space you, or mor importantly, all your users are using. My Site Admin account is WAY...

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