Lifesaving Solar Power For Army’s “Firefly” Sniper Detection System

Lifesaving Solar Power For Army’s “Firefly” Sniper Detection System (via Clean Technica)

The Department of Defense has been aggressively pursuing alternative energy both as the key to future national security and as a means of reducing troop casualties in the field, and a new Army solar project provides a perfect illustration of the two entwined goals. The project involves integrating…

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Hello Sheldon Cooper WordPress Plugin

Hello Sheldon Cooper WordPress Plugin (via http://eleanorprior.com)

So my daughter says to me after I have done my Google+ Hangout: “You don’t know who Sheldon Cooper is? How do you not know who Sheldon Cooper is? YouTube him mom!” Yes I said WordPress Plugin, my friend Kim Doyal and her business partner Steve O’Sullivan co-create some amazing plugins and this…

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Clearing out the /boot partition on Ubuntu Server

Recently I had an issue where I could no longer update packages. The system was responding normally, but after digging around, I found that the /boot partition was 100% full.

After digging around on Google for a while, I found this little gem.

 dpkg --get-selections|grep 'linux-image*'|awk '{print $1}'|egrep -v "linux-image-$(uname -r)|linux-image-generic" |while read n;do apt-get -y remove $n;done

This finds all the linux-image that are in your /boot partition and one-by-one removes them.

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WordPress Most Popular Plugins (Infographic)

One reason WordPress is so successful as a blogging and CMS platform is due to the community of developers dedicated to making it great.

WordPress themes has a great infographic designed by “Charts” on 30 of the most successful plugins in the official database that exceeds 22,000 plugins.

Some of my favorites are listed below.

WordPress Most Popular Plugins

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How To Move Critical Windows Folders to Other Local Disks

Moving Users and Prog FilesIf you’ve ever needed or tried to move the C:\Users directory or other default Windows® directories to another place other than the default one, you know it can be quite difficult.

I’ve tried to Google this, and talk to others about doing it. What seemed to be such a simple request also seemed to be difficult to pull off. That’s when a brilliant (nearly the smartest man I know) told me about hard links & junction links in windows. Think of them like symbolic links in Mac or *nix systems.

  • C:\dira linked to C:\dirb
  • D:\dir1\ to C:\dir2\dir3

The great thing about using hard links in Windows is that it acts as if the data is still there. In the example above, when you’re browsing C:\dira the system will act as if you’re really in that directory when in all reality you’re browsing C:\dirb. Even the address bar will show that.

Thanks to an almost 3-year-old post on Lifehacker, I accomplished what I thought was only possible with tons of registry tweaking and tons of time spent in Safe Mode with a potentially unstable system afterward.
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AutoFocus Previous Post / Next Post Image Thumbnails

For a primer, you should check out my previous post on this topic. There will be some referencing it in this post.

It’s been a couple of years since that post and many things have changed.
The theme AutoFocus has gone through a number of changes. Alan has released a “Pro” (paid) version of the theme with tons of enhancements. He’s also stayed fairly current on releasing updates to the theme. Now both the lite and pro versions are at version 2.0.2 and come with some bells & whistles that just weren’t available when I started using Autofocus.

Even with all of those updates, enhancements, etc… I just didn’t like the direction AutoFocus was going. I was stuck in its 1.x days and loving the way it worked. I love the simplicity, lack of widgets, and overall minimalistic view of the theme. Needless to say, I never upgraded. I’ve made my own modifications to the theme throughout the time I’ve had it, and I like it just the way it is.
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11 Essential WordPress Plugins for September 2011

A friend started out today asking me if I had time for some WordPress input…specifically regarding backups and related plugins. I though to myself, maybe I should write up a small email to my buddy and mention all the plugins I think are essential. I did and that led to me thinking…”I should put this out for others.” He thought the same thing and suggested I turn it into something on my site.

So, I put some time into this list. I only suggest the plugins I think are the best in their respective categories, so with that, let the list begin.
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