When I first started using WordPress back in March, 2006, one of the first bad habits I go into was not backing up my sites. After several nightmarish events where I lost the databases, I decided to back up regularly with two WordPress plugins.
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How I backup my WordPress sites
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Command Line Basics: Finding Files
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In today's post I'm going to show how to use the command line find program to search for files. There are certainly different GUI tools available in Linux, such as Beagle, to search for files. The advantage of many of these systems is that they index the files on your system so that the searching is rather fast.
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OpenIndiana 151a Desktop review
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OpenIndiana is a distribution of illumos, which is a community fork of OpenSolaris. And OpenSolaris itself was the open source version of Solaris, before it was discontinued by Oracle, after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, Inc., in January 2010.
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TLWIR 19: Intel, Openindiana and a Message to Redmond
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As always, the free software community and the technology world in general are in a constant state of flux. Once you get used to the way that things operate, you can be certain that they are going to change.
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TLWIR 18: Ubuntu Rapid Release, Acer, and The Philippines’ Bold Move
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The Free Software movement has truly become a global phenomenon. Today, I found a piece of legislation that is currently before the Philippines’ House of Representatives that reads like it was written by Doctor Richard Stallman himself! There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the world has really changed, and it will continue to do so.
Read more »Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained"
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I just wrote my second e-book. This time it's about sed one-liners. Sed one-liners teaches you sed, the superman of Unix stream editing, through various practical examples, such as numbering lines, printing certain lines, converting text, etc. The book is 98 pages long and contains precisely 100 well explained one-liners. Have a look!
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Guide to disks and disk partitions in Linux
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This article is an attempt to provide basic information about disk naming and partition numbering conventions, in non-technical terms, to those new to Linux. I believe a basic understanding of all the aspects concerning how a disk is referenced and partitioned will put you in a better position to troubleshoot installation and disk-related problems.
Read more »ALT Linux 6 KDesktop review
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ALT Linux, published by ALT Linux Ltd., a software vendor based in Moscow, Russia, is a distribution that originated from what used to be Mandrake Linux, now Mandriva Desktop. The first review of an ALT Linux edition was of ALT Linux 5 ARK Desktop, followed by Simply Linux 5 review. This article is a review of ALT Linux 6 KDesktop, released on August 30 2011.
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String Matches in Regular Expressions
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Use parentheses to create the string matches you need in regular expressions. Parentheses allows you to use pipes for multiple matches.
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How to delete DigiNotar CA certificate from Firefox
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DigiNotar B.V., a unit of VASCO Data Security International, Inc., is an Internet Trust Service Provider based in the Netherlands. Part of their business involves issuing digital certificates.
Read more »Using Character Classes to Create Matches
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Use character matches to help select data out of files. Character classes help you select based on as series of letters or text strings.
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Mandriva 2011 installation and disk partitioning guide
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Mandriva 2011, the latest edition of the popular Linux distribution, is just three days from being officially released, but the daily builds are already available for download. This article, based on a last-freeze daily build, presents an installation and disk partitioning guide for those who are new to Linux and will be installing it for the first time.
Read more »How to Manage Notification Settings in KDE 4
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One of the many things the KDE developers did right in 4.x (currently 4.7) is the notification system. By far, this system is the cleanest and most flexible of nearly every desktop I have used. But most users don’t realize just how flexible this system is simply because they never bother to look into the configuration options available. It’s time that oversight is corrected.
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Why have you switched to GNU/Linux?
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There are many great reasons to switch to GNU/Linux. We would love to hear your story as to why you made the switch.
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Linux Mint 11 LXDE review
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Linux Mint is a desktop-centric distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, and Linux Mint LXDE is the edition that uses the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE). This article presents a review of Linux Mint 11 LXDE, latest stable edition, which was released on August 16, 2011.
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