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This site is a collection of my own work with Linux. Certain things are easy, others take time to decipher and if I ever need to repeat the work (which usually happens!), then I need to remember everything by memory or... have a site with all the steps taken and to take again.

The following are my most recent posts:

Testing ping.fm, quite a tool for marketers!

I actually remembered that ping.fm would do what I wanted to do and even better than the couple of things I tested before. It will broadcast everything everywhere. In a way, a bit scary!

There are 45 systems as of today (Jul 11, 2009) where your posts will automatically be posted.

And if you want to know, you will need a user key for everything to work. When logged in your ping.fm account, go to http://ping.fm/key

You key is a long string of letters and digits (for those in the known, it is called an md5sum)

Scan Alert

Just got that message today:

[18:06:04] Scan Alert: WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
=============================

ATTENTION ! Security Center has detected
malware on your computer !

Affected Software:

Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution / Virus Infection /
Unexpected shutdowns

Recommendation: Users running vulnerable version should install a repair
utility immediately

Your system IS affected, download the patch from the address below !
Failure to do so ...

Joomla installation fun...

Today I installed a Joomla site because I have a contract to do some development in Joomla.

So... I started, looks real nice and stuff, clicked next, next and got and error. It tells me that the configuration.php file is not writable and that I'll have to copy and paste once I'm finished or make it writable. Well... I thus copy configure.php-dist as configure.php and try again.

That makes it fail a little later with the following error:

Playing around with facebook for a couple weeks now and I bumped into a new one!

Yep! There is a limit to the number of friends you can have on Facebook... It is 5,000±10.

This explains why I have found several people with multiple accounts. That's the way to circumvent the limit. With 3 accounts, you can get 15,000 people in your circle.

Twittering without being in Twitter!

I was wondering whether I could twitter without having to add my posts to twitter each time...

That works, of course, but it is time consuming.

The website I'm using runs on Drupal and it includes a Twitter module. And that module will automatically twit my posts titles to twitter. There you go!

This message is a test to see whether that works...

UPDATE using multiple tables

Today I wanted to copy a column from one table to another. One way is to go through the table and update the items one by one. The other way is to use the UPDATE order a copy the data as required.

The UPDATE command does NOT support such a feature by default and thus each database has its own syntax when it comes to how to make that work.

PostgreSQL uses an extra FROM between the SET and WHERE orders.

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Twitter and emails

Today, I finally registered with Twitter. I'll be looking into a way to connect that to my blogs so each time I blog, I get a tweat eliminating the need for me to actually tweat for real.

Okay, that's fine, but guess what... they want me to verify my email address and it does not work.

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Facebook URL

Noticed today that I had an easy to use facebook URL. It goes like this:

http://www.facebook.com/alexis.wilke

So, the Facebook URL followed by my first and last name. Easy, hey?

Another important thing, in your facebook privacy settings, make sure you select the necessary flags so people can see your page! If you make yourself totally private people won't find you and won't be able to see your page!

You can also let Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live find your profile!

Sample of where you need to click to get at the right place in Facebook:

It seems this should work with tools and ...

Belkin G Wireless Router (F5D7234-4)

Today I got a new router, a Belkin G Wireless Router, the F5D7234-4 to be precised.

I have been looking for the IP address of the device for 30 min. It is actually specified on page 26 (i.e. the Alternate Setup Method area). The IP address is 192.168.2.1.

Very annoying since my server is also 192.168.2.1. In other words, I cannot talk with my server to that darn thing!

Well... I'll do it from another computer, but quite annoying, if you ask me!

I have a Cayman for my Internet connection and it uses 198.168.1.254. At least I find that much more practical.

Next I wanted to setup the ...

OpenOffice Presenter

Already used OpenOffice? This is a free office suite just like Microsoft Office (or MS Office). It does not include absolutely everything, but it has most certainly a lot more than you need!

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