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Interesting alternative to tagging

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I found a post about an alternative approach to tagging today and thought it would be interesting if someone made a wordpress plugin that would use this idea...

Tape drives are obsolete

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I was reading an article today that asks the question Are Tape Backup systems obsolete? I would say the answer is yes and that it has been that way for some ...

Sun ZFS and some big hardware

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This is one large set of disks to have in only 4u of space. And to top it off the thing has 4 cores. I love commodity hardware and sun has been rolling out s...

Capture full page screenshots with firefox

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Ever wanted to capture the entire page you are viewing in firefox instead of just what is shown on your screen? Ever need to do that from a command line? Her...

Virtualization gaining speed

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At work we jumped on the virtualization wagon some time ago first when User Mode Linux and then later with Xen. UML was pretty good but Xen has been great. W...

SQL Beautifier

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I pulled a large amount of SQL out of some existing code and wanted to have it formated nicely for me. I figured there had to be some type of pretty printer ...

Wordpress permalinks with lighttpd (lighty)

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Wordpress out of the box works just fine with lighttpd. But you will run into issues if you want nice looking and search engine friendly URLs. To get that yo...

Easier scrolling images with Yahoo UI

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This is a great article about the yahoo ui tools. I mention it mainly because they have a nice scrolling widget a lot like what I put together as an example ...

Wordpress 404 with lighttpd (lighty)

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If you are having a problem getting your wordpress 404 page to show up when using lighttpd you need to add the following to your lighttpd config file to tell...