20070814

How to Get Indexed by Google in 6 Days

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  1. Submitted my URL to Google’s add url page.
  2. Linked a word in one of my posts to an permalink on Google’s Blog.
  3. Did the same thing to an article on TechCrunch.
  4. Posted legitimate comments on a few blogs I enjoy reading
  5. Announced this blog at BloggerForum.
  6. Spent two or three hours writing a good article to submit to social news sites, submitted
  7. Added RSS feed link to my site
  8. Added blog to Technorati
  9. Installed plugin to add Technorati tags to my posts
  10. Installed this Google Sitemap plugin, created sitemap and pinged Google.
  11. Optimized this blog using these excellent tips to make it more pleasing to the search engines.
  12. Posted at least one article per day"

20070808

GhostFox

[We maintain the Open Source version of Firefox called GhostFox which was designed with extra privacy features in mind. GhostFox offers these additional attributes beyond the standard version of the Firefox browser:]

10 things you can do when Windows XP won't boot

  1. Use a Windows startup disk

  2. Use Last Known Good Configuration

  3. Use System Restore

  4. Use Recovery Console

  5. Fix a corrupt Boot.ini

  6. Fix a corrupt partition boot sector

  7. Fix a corrupt master boot record

  8. Disable automatic restart

  9. Restore from a backup

  10. Perform an in-place upgrade

For more Info, click here

20070807

Howto install Joomla on your very own Ubuntu server

[You have a spare computer, you know that Joomla is a fairly powerful CMS, that Ubuntu is a really nice Linux distribution, and you’d like to combine all these things. So here is how it’s being done...]

20070806

Accessing the Files on Your Windows Partition

[Ubuntu can read and write files on your Windows partition. Windows partitions are normally formatted as NTFS (the default for Windows Vista, XP and 2000) or, rarely, FAT32. If unsure, you can find out which format your Windows partition uses by right-clicking the partition in Windows Explorer and selecting Properties.]

HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using the ntfs-3g (easy & safe method)

[ Support of NTFS partition for linux has always been a problem. Projects exist since many years but was always experimental, and was claim to be not safe. On the 14th of July 2006, a developer of the linux-ntfs team, Szabolcs Szakacsits, revolution this area by releasing a new driver ntfs-3g which claimed to provide full read/write support for all NTFS partition. After months of successful testing by hundreds of thousands of users in beta status, ntfs-3g is now fully stable]

Enabling NTFS RW access for user in Feisty Fawn

[There’s plenty of info about how to enable the ntfs-3g module [I call it a module, but others might disagree with that characterization, I guess driver is the better term] in Feisty Fawn. What I want to talk about is how to enable a single user to have those ntfs partitions, in a dual-boot scenario, as their own without the problem of anything on them or created on them becoming the property of the root user.]