Category: Computers
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Billions of People Do Not Have Internet
4.3 Billion is the best guess. It’s often forgotten by us “First World” people that there are many – the majority of the worlds population in fact – That have never “gone online”. I’ve wanted to repost a map I saw in National Geographic showing a world map done in black with every IP address…
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Getting Paid On Time
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a slump in the oil prices around my neck of the woods. Alberta, Canada that is. Frankly I haven’t a clue what the prices are doing around the world. It’s been quite a while since I was working directly in the oil patch. My go-to source was “The DOB”,…
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Why I don’t Do Facebook
I’m going to use an analogy for this. Stay with me. I want you to pretend for a moment that you have a little store. You are a storekeeper in a happy land. Then Tim Horton’s gives their coffee away for free to everyone. And everything changes.
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Choosing Your Domain Name
Info-graphics are neat. I have been searching around for a good info-graphic that explains the open source initiative, but I haven’t found one I can post here. What I did find was a couple of good ones at http://www.whoishostingthis.com. They allow other websites to hotlink to their images and even give the code snippit. That’s…
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WordPress Maintenance and the CMS Calendar
Websites today are a lot more like software than static pages of text and pictures. Web developers use CMS (Content Management Systems) for building websites (e.g. this site uses WordPress). There are dozens of website CMS applications Like any software, you must continuously update it. The site that’s visible to the public might not change…
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FLOSS, FOSS, CC, Etc, Etc.
FLOSS = Free Libre Open Source Software. FOSS = Free Open Source Software CC= Creative Commons Licencing Now that you know sort-of what I’m referring to, I just wanted to post an article on some of the applications I’ve been exploring and testing that mostly fall under the FLOSS category. By day I’m busy doing…