Typer Tappers

Installation

The first thing I notices when booting up was it’s not a linux live CD, considering I’m used to installing Kubuntu it’s a change from having to wait and I love it no need to wait around booting up a Linux distrobution from your possibly slow CD drive, you just get a simple installation screen, you might say its a bad thing as you don’t get the option to chat on ‘AIM’ or play your games while your installing. It would be nice to see Ubuntu to have the option to install straight off the CD but I can’t see it happening anytime soon unfortunately but its a great way to give people a simple demo before they install the OS.

Now moving on to the options you get, there isn’t many options but what you get is amazing the main one I like is picking your file system like EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS and XFS which is what I am currently installing, I cannot remember seeing this in many other flavours of Linux normally you get stuck with EXT3 which is a brilliant and a very advanced file system but ideally its not all that good for the low end machines in my opinion, you need all the speed you can grab and EXT3 doesn’t allow that when comparing to ReiserFS and XFS which you might notice XFS is the recommended one in Zen Walk for the better speed of it, the good thing about XFS is that its growing in popularity meaning it will get better and better!

After doing all the above you get to select your partitions which I am sorry to say I disliked, unlike other Linux flavours you get much better options in the department for partitioning your HDD with ease so be careful and I recommend you have a copy of partition magic next to you!

Another thing to pick on is selecting driver options such as SATA and PATA don’t know what PATA is?

Well PATA is Parallel Advanced Technology Attachments doesn’t help does it, but it’s also known as Enhanced IDE (E-IDE) which is also known as IDE; which luckely I learned about a week before installing so it’s not all that good for novice users, but then again it is based on slackware and as the saying goes most hackers are slackers. So try to remember that if you have a ribbon cable (40 Pins) its a PATA, and normally in red a very thin cable on HDDs it will normally have 4 Pins and that is your SATA HDD.

Here I believe I’m targeting this article at the more advanced computer users, you may of heard of VNC before it stands for Virtual Network Computing in simple terms its basically a remote access client such as windows remote assistand from a personal point of view if I want to help someone with a problem using remote assistand is hell to work with.

So using a client like Ultra VNC or even Tight VNC it really makes life simple, for example a while back a community member of UVNC developed a great mod which is basicall a one click VNC server, so you can send a exe to your friend thats having computer trouble he runs it and pop you get screen showing their desktop brilliant right, saves you a lot trouble, and its a great way to avoid security issues with windows remote desktop, you will find these applications are much more secure as its not running constantly its a one off thing they open it and you close it.

You can find the OneClick VNC files here http://forum.ultravnc.info/viewtopic.php?p=35885 A podcast that gives you a great walk through can be found here http://www.hak5.org/archives/199 it will also walk you through how to make it into a complete exe file making it easier.

Another use for Ultra VNC is to access your computer at home, there is one main reason I choose Ultra VNC over Tight VNC especially for server reasons, when using UVNC I get the choice to use Java to access my PC remotely, which if you use LogMeIn you will find familliar, the idea behind web based viewer means it allows you to access your PC from secured networks, on some networks you may find that you cannot run certain EXE’s without playing around on their network so this makes things much easier. Else you can run a VNC viewer from a USB stick which can be found here http://portableapps.com/node/2031.

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This week I’m ticked off I have been checking my stats to see how well my website is doing, and I came across plusmo they offer a service to alert your cell phone about RSS updates, okay this service is a good idea but the part that just gets me really wound up is they use your content to promote their website instead of giving your keywords by using your title as a link back they have a stupid little read more link.

But if you don’t want them to scrape your content you have to write a 10 page essay on why it is your site and tonnes of proof, I’m sorry but I shouldn’t have to do this for some dumb ass company stealing my content for their one use.

They could at least be nice and not allow any search engines to visit their site but no, instead of that they use it to their advantage okay maybe I’m being hard on them they do only use a limited amount of words!

So here is what I will be doing, I’m going to be scanning my logs to see what this bot is called then making a plugin for wordpress to use this bot to your advantage, allowing you to show them what you want use their cheating service to your advantage.

If anyone knows how to detect them I would love to hear how, would save me looking through logs.

The reason I am doing this if you haven’t caught on is that Google do not like duplicated content the links coming back will not do my site any good.

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For a while now I have been learning SEO and many different ways to promote websites using the powerful world of Google, Yahoo and Ask.

As you might remember my recent posts where I cought up on some important SEO reading How To Make Keywords Stand Out , Making your Layout easier for Google and the most important Links to and from your website.

But it is now the time to enter the world of Black Hat SEO, their are a lot of reasons why not to use this but in many ways their are reasons to use this.1 reason it might not be a good idea to use blackhat is because it can get you on googles black list, which overall is not good you could end up loosing traffic which is then a good idea to sell the site before it takes you down. Read the rest of this entry »

Their was a new update for wordpress, version 2.3 personally I love this update for several reasons.

1: I can kick out a load of plugin’s,before I had around 20 or so doing a lot of things, but after this update it is now doing a lot more for example the tags in your write post/page that kicks out a few of my plugins by itself, especially Ultimate Tag Warrior, but I occasionally use it for the keyword suggestions.

2: More editor buttons, now if you do most of your work in the WebUI then you will love this, not only can you clean up the coding but you can also colour your text this has taken tinymc editor to the next level and saves me making my own modifications to it, I am also using my wordpress blog instead of google doc’s and spreadsheets. Read the rest of this entry »

If you haven’t seen this or had a go you have to its one of the best ipods I have ever seen. The basic idea of this is to just have a screen displayed; no buttons on top, all you do is move your finger across the screen!

You know what amazes me though, I remember the old days of touch screen and frankly they where huge the monitors you could buy for your computer where very big and expensive, now you compare this with the itouch its astonishing how you can turn that into that its so small too hard to get my head around it!

The display looks amazing, if you own a iphone it’s a fairly similar look it display’s everything from the album art to the information from your mp3 file. Has many other options like display photos you have taken to even things like video files!

This is a amazing ipod or itouch should I say and is well worth buying in my opinion so go for it!

I updated Adobe Photoshop CS 2 to CS 3 finally I have been waiting for this for a long time and it was a brilliant upgrade.

Finally they make it easy to see your design, this is my favorite feature in Photoshop, and basically as you have your panels open you can fix them down so your picture will not be able to go under the panels. This is brilliant in CS2 I was always moving the tools and layer panels.

For the money it costs to upgrade I can’t say it was worth it, in GBP its around £100 USD you can find it at $200 considering I brought the original for whopping $600 that is a lot and it doesn’t really earn me much back, brilliant for a hobby though.

Overall if you have CS 2 I say buy Adobe Photoshop CS3, I’ve always preached adobe software due to the fact they are brilliant!

I believe you can also use Adobe Photoshop on a USB flash drive using something like thinstall, I’ve also seen it on many torrent sites. Which I believe is illegal.