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…
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…
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.
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.
If 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.
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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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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