Author: Gabriel
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How To Update Drupal 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 (aka a Drupal HowTo for the rest of us)
I figured it was time to make one of my howtos. The Drupal UPGRADE.TXT file is fairly straightforward: Backup your database and Drupal directory – especially your configuration file in ‘sites/default/settings.php’. Log on as the user with user ID 1. Remove all the old Drupal files then unpack the new Drupal files into the directory…
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3rd German Silent Film Festival
What: 3rd German Silent Film Festival Where: Greenbelt 1 Cinema 1 When: Tuesdays from August 15 to September 5, 2006. Lineup: August 15 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, music by Radioactive Sago Project Dr Caligari exhibits clairvoyant sleepwalker Cesare at a fair and challenges his audience to ask him anything about the future. When…
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Whenever I go to Mercury Drug, I think of Native Command Queuing
Hey cool, my article about SATA came out on the PCMag.ph site. I wrote this very technical article for the January 2006 issue, and I really enjoyed writing it as I learned a lot about Serial ATA (SATA) and consequently, Parallel ATA (PATA), the technology it’s supposed to have replaced. It’s basically a geek’s dream.…
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Thoughts on: “People seen as the Achilles’ heel of computer security”
From here: LAS VEGAS–The most vexing weakness in computer security is not in the hardware or the software, it is in the people who use the machines, according to top hackers and cyber safety specialists. “It really is more of a human problem than a technical problem,” Dan Kaminisky of Dox Para Research said at…
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They’re Scientists. Not Geographists.
Boss rubs sent me this link, which was just too good to pass up: Try and catch it before it’s fixed. Technorati Tags: mayon volcano, fox news powered by performancing firefox
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Best Site Evar
I’ll let you guys in on a secret. One of my fave sites in the world is thebestlegaladvice dot com. I know, I know, it sounds weird, but where other site can you study the very strange hairdo of Flock of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score?
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Girl fired via text
A yawner of a news article From Yahoo: LONDON (AFP) – A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by text message, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture. Katy Tanner, a 21-year-old sales assistant, received the message while she was off work with a migraine, the South Wales…
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Bionic Bio Page By Bioman
Just made a bio area at the sidebar, and am making this post so that I’d have a page where people can leave comments on. Decided to name it that way just to see how many times I can say ‘bio’ in the title, without resorting to ‘biology’, which I don’t like because I almost…