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PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner

Posted on August 24, 2007 in How-to

This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to …

Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility

Posted on August 24, 2007 in How-to

Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility

This is the third and last in my series of blog posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). In the first post, I introduced robots.txt and the robots META tags, giving an overview of when to use them …

Official Google Blog: The Robots Exclusion Protocol

Posted on August 24, 2007 in How-to

Official Google Blog: The Robots Exclusion Protocol

This is the second in a short series of posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol, the standard for controlling how web pages on your site are indexed. This post provides more details and examples of mechanisms to control access and indexing of your …

Screencasts of uncommon browser features [dive into mark]

Posted on August 21, 2007 in How-to

Let’s not and say we did [dive into mark]
# Introduction to tabbed browsing
# Opening links in a new tab
# Bookmarking a group of tabs
# Using a group of tabs as the home page
# Rearranging tabs
# Introduction to live bookmarks
# Introduction to spell checking
# Introduction to search engines
# Adding a …

Linux HOWTO: NetMasks Explained

Posted on April 12, 2007 in How-to

Linux ipnatctl HOWTO: Selecting What Packets To Mangle

If youre not familiar with the /-notation used for network addresses, it works like this.

Every machine needs an individual address. To keep things simple, we assign them in clumps; each network of machines generally gets a range of addresses.

A single …

20 Things you do not know about Windows XP

Posted on February 22, 2007 in How-to

20 Things you do not know about Windows XP

1. It boasts how long it can stay up. Whereas previous versions of Windows were coy about how long they went between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the …

Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

Posted on January 30, 2007 in How-to

Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

The Hipster PDA Parietal Disgorgement Aid is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options …

Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X

Posted on January 20, 2007 in How-to

Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X
Building a website is a complicated process, and testing your finished product
on every possible browser can be even more daunting. However, because modern
browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 6 are compliant with the
World Wide Web Consortiums …

How to - disk recovery with ddrescue on Mac 10.4

Posted on January 13, 2007 in How-to

I had a dead, clicking hard drive. It would not mount so most repair utilities and Apple Disk Utility couldn't see the drive to repair it. Data Rescue II and DiskWarrior (even advanced recovery mode) would run for a while but eventually error out. dd_rescue (read third comment) is a …

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