Monthly Archives: January 2009

Very Nice Gnome Themes

January 29, 2009 | Leave a comment
Wow. These are some gor­geous themes for Gnome. Like so gor­geous, it almost makes me want to use Gnome again.  Seriously. Now, maybe the screen­shots don’t reveal the flaws, but a cou­ple of those themes look REALLY high qual­ity, very polished.
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Migrating WordPress Install Across Versions and Domains

January 26, 2009 | Leave a comment
Tonight, I had to put back up a old Word­press install I had taken down. I had installed it almost a year ago in a folder of jaketolbert.com, so it was an old ver­sion of WP. And since 000webhost.com only gives you 2 MySQL dbs, but unlim­ited accounts, I had to install it on a new (albeit free) domain. This might have been trou­ble, but migrat­ing [...]
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From Ars Technica’s Windows 7 Review

January 12, 2009 | Leave a comment
Here’s the money quote from Ars Technica’s review of Win­dows 7; I’d say this pretty mcuh sums it up: If you don’t like Win­dows Vista’s Start Menu, you won’t like Win­dows 7 much. The fish wall­pa­per is quite splendid.
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More Details on Solving “This Site May Harm Your Computer” Problems

January 6, 2009 | Leave a comment
I thought I’d post a few details about my site being hacked and what I did about it–maybe it’ll help other people out. At least part of my site was labeled by Google as “This site may harm your com­puter” in Google’s search results. It turns out, some­one had hacked my site and added 3 lines of mali­cious, obfus­cated [...]
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