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Entries for August, 2008

Technorati does it (not) again - it does not index!

It is quite interesting. Wordpress, and the very basic RSS feed. Blogger, the most common blogging platform.
Add to it Technorati, which is (supposedly) the biggest and meanest blog indexing search of all.
But what do you get? A super bloated web feature that does not index your pages properly, frequently, or correctly. Guess what? I have [...]

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Why Novell (openSUSE’s) so-called “deal” with Microsoft does not matter

My last review of openSUSE 11.0 generated mixed comments, but one of the recurring themes was disapproval of my recommendation because SUSE is the “enemy” of Linux, simply because it struck a “deal” with Microsoft.
I am no expert in legal matters, but from what I can find, it seems that Novell legitimized Microsoft’s claim on [...]

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openSUSE 11 - Desktop Emphasis

Finally.
Today, I completed my download of openSUSE 11.0 (after my recent Vista failure) and set about installing it. It was a DVD of the latest ISO from openSUSE. My machine is the same Acer Ferrari 5000 (2.0 GHz X2 AMD Turion 64, 2GB RAM, ATI X1600 Mobility Radeon).
I had said earlier that I was really [...]

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About my Vista failure - and SUSE 11 download

The troubles of Vista…
Like I posted a few days back, I had a massive Vista problem. Maybe I should elaborate.
My Vista seemed to be working perfectly, when I suddenly noted that the TCP/IP “properties” buton in my Network Connection properties was grayed out. I also noted then that my Wireless (Atheros) had stopped working.
I traced [...]

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About the ads on my blog

The more regular of my visitors might have noticed that the ads in my blog (which are not earning me much - they are just for the fun of it) are changing repeatedly.
The famous Google Adsense once banned my other site http://superphysics.netfirms.com due to someone ‘click bombing’ me.
Point is: I had to change. For a [...]

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