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Adapting a Website Builder to Your Needs
It is possible to optimize a website builder so that it can reflect the exact requirements of a budding webmaster. Since the best programs are available on a hosted environment, this means that one does not have to download anything but just has to purchase the product on the portal. The following is a general […]
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Expanding Typography Options with Web Fonts
For years, we were constrained in our HTML and CSS by boring typefaces like Arial and Times New Roman, ensuring that all users could see the same thing. When you absolutely needed a special typeface that your users wouldn’t have on their systems, you’d use an image or Flash instead of text. Innovations in Web […]
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Page Speed implications: What Every Webmaster Should Know
There are a lot of things that a webmaster should know but among the most important are the implications of page speed. Page speed, otherwise known as page loading time, is a very important part of the user experience. Visitors to your website will be much happier – and much more likely to stick around […]
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[one-liner]: Why is Conky reporting a lower CPU frequency, when my CPU frequency is actually much higher?
Background
If you’ve every dealt with Conky you may have gotten a little confused when you’re trying to get it to display your CPU frequency like so:
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${freq_g cpu0} Ghz
… and Conky is reporting your CPU frequency as 1.12GHz when in fact it’s actually much higher than that, say 2.67GHz. Most likely this is being caused by […]
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[one-liner]: Checking out a HDD’s Health using the Command Line Tool udisk
Background
Here’s a quick tip for checking out the overall health of your computer’s hard drive. It makes use of a little known tool called udisks which provides access to information about storage devices from the D-Bus interface.
Solution
Before we jump into udisks here are some resources that might prove useful when dealing with the design/architecture of […]
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Five unusual ways to speed up your website
We have already seen many great tips for speeding up a website. These tips are great, but I want to share with you five more tips that are less common. Generally these tricks can’t be used in every situation (just like any other trick), but they … Continue reading
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Minify JS and CSS files in batch with drag-and-drop
Minification of JavaScript and CSS files is one of the best practices to keep your site’s load time to the minimum, especially important for the first time visitors. In organized projects, minification is part of the deployment process and it is … Continue reading
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Analyzing the Popularity and Install Base of Various Programming Languages
Background
We’ve been having some discussions at work recently, trying to determine what programming languages & frameworks to use on a new project we’ll be ramping up shortly. It’s always fun to have these discussions because there really is an amazing amount of choice available today. It also can be exhausting because everyone has their favorites, […] Continue reading
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How to Analyze Network Performance using iperf on Fedora, CentOS & Windows
I’ve been experiencing some slow network connections between a couple of Linux systems (CentOS), Window systems (Server 2008R2), and a NAS device (Netgear ReadyNAS) and wanted to confirm that my network connections weren’t the source of the problem. To limit any variability due to different tools, I decided to use iperf, which can run on […] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Determining a CD/DVD Drive’s Write Speed Capabilities under Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
Background
Here’s a quick primer on how to determine the capabilities of a CD/DVD drive you may have on your Linux laptop or desktop using the little known command wodim. In truth, wodim is actually the app behind cdrecord & dvdrecord, which are little more than aliases.
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