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Technology

Survival guide to LAMP: Ten basic commands of Linux

L is for Linux Before continuing the Survival tutorials, you’ll need some basic Unix commands. I’ve recovered the following, which provides a good intro to most of the commands you’ll need, from the now defunct weblog, Linux for Poets. Once upon a time Unix used to be for geeks only – the platform of choice […]

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Connecting

Zero to sixty in ten seconds

Mr. Allan Moult, my friend as well as my boss at Leatherwood Online is celebrating an important birthday tomorrow, tomorrow in this case being May 8th. Allan is a journalist, photographer, a writer, an editor, and a very interesting person who has traveled more than most people I know. He is also a tireless defender of the natural […]

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Weblogging

Points to ponder

Joi Ito pointed to the article from the Telegraph, which interviews the mother of one of the women involved with the photos of the torture of the Iraqi prisoners. First: Why the focus on the women soldiers? Why not the men? Or both? Second: Remember when you read this article that the folks in New York, Boston, and San […]

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Technology

Survival guide to LAMP: Basic ingredients

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve heard from several people interested in moving to an open source weblogging tool like WordPress or Textpattern, but they’re concerned about having to manipulate PHP code in order to modify the templates or make the changes to the tool to incorporate modifications some of us have created. What happens, then, is these […]

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Political

National day of prayer

Thursday is this country’s National Day of Prayer. This day was set aside back in the 1950’s, the same era when “In God We Trust” was added to the coins, and “Under God” added to the Pledge of Allegience. The purpose of the event is to bring people together from all denominations to pray for the […]