DazBlade

I chose to install Fedora 7 (Moonshine) on my computers at home and am in the process of creating a nice little wireless network (WLAN), nearly completed now. I’ve got to say that I wished I had chosen LINUX earlier – O the power is sending my head dizzy, its great! I still use Windows XP (spit spit) on my laptop but that is purely for playing CSS and one or 2 other games. Fedora is now my operating system of choice.

I chose Fedora because it is very similar to the flavour used at my workplace so obviously I get double the benefit and should increase my knowledge quicker – well that is the theory anyway =;-)

Blimey, I still can’t get hold of this book. Yeah, I could have gone & queued at stupid O’clock to ensure my copy but no, I stayed at home, my mistake. My daughter got her copy yesterday although it was supposed to arrive on Saturday so she was a bit disappointed about the delay. When she went to bed, I sneaked a quick read and ended up reading the first 5 chapters! I definitely now need my own copy.

As a sidenote, this final book in the series was the quickest selling book in English history. Selling a whopping 2.4 million copies within 24 hours of its release and reached over 3 million sales over the weekend.

Hmmm… well, all things considered, I think Lewis Hamilton raced really well and was unfortunate not to get any points at the Nurburgring. He finsished 9th in the end which is the first time in his professional career that he has not had a podium finish. With 9 successive podium finishes already under his belt, I believe this exciting driver will go on and achieve great things in the world F1 Grand Prix motor racing.

Lewis is now just 2 points clear of his team mate, Fernando Alonso, and 11 points clear of 3rd place Felipe Massa. Dare we think that Lewis could become world champion in his very first season? I personally believe it is certainly possible and he will be in the top 3 come the close of the season which in itself would still be an amazing achievement!

Me and my daughter went see this film at the showcase cinema in Nottingham. WOW! I’m sorry if that sounds excitable but WOW! Ok, now I got that out my system, I gotta tell ya that this film really is a “must see”. Don’t think about it, just go and see it.

Phoenix matches the high calibre of its predecessors and I gotta say that Dolores Umbridge and Luna Lovegood are just as I imagined them when reading the book. Although a lot of scenes from the book are not transferred into the film, it still manages to retain its continuity coupled with some real extravagant action.

All in all this is a great film with a great cast and although their real ages no longer equal the ages of their respective characters, it still remains a top notch experience… just go and watch it, now!

I don’t know about you but I personally think that sponsored wordpress themes goes against the whole ethos of the community? I must admit that I totally agree with this quote from Matt Mullenweg: “Our design and theme community thrived before themes with embedded ads came along, and it will continue to thrive long after their gone. Embedding ads in themes is disrespectful to users, and creates confusion and uncertainty about which themes people can trust.”

I am still quite new to Wordpress and blogging in general but I think if you are going to create some themes then why not just share them in the proud knowledge that your work could be used on many many blogs? Your details will be embedded in the source so it is not like you are not getting credit for your work.

If you feel strongly about sponsored wordpress themes whether for or against, or are just curious what the fuss is all about then just point your browser to this excellent article: Putting the kibosh on Sponsored Wordpress themes

What are your top 12 LINUX commands? I nicked this idea from my mate, Paul. But mine is considerably better because it lists your top 12 most recently used commands where as his only lists a measly 10… so, without further ado here is the command:
history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’|sort|uniq -c | sort -rn | head -12

Mine are:-

172 ls

85 vi

84 ps

61 cat

50 tail

39 yum

39 less

32 telnet

29 whereis

27 locate

25 service

18 kill

I also reckon my list is better than Pauls as mine is quite poetic, if you look hard and, basically, his isn’t… lol

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VWD was launched in 2002, Virtual World Direct offers the chance to increase your chances of winning the UK National Lotto and the Euro Lotto no matter where you are in the world. They even give you a free web site and you can see part of mine by clicking on one of the VWD links at the beginning of each paragraph. Now, I don’t know about you but I can be a bit sceptical about these things, hey, sceptical is healthy right? Anyway I remember when this first came out and I thought to myself, “I wonder how long that will last”. I kept checking it out from time to time, week after week, month after month… the months turned into years and what do ya know, its still here! And so in 2006, 4 years later, I signed up.

VWD also lets you build a substantial monthly residual income simply by introducing new online players to VWD. Indeed many people are making a full time living from this alone. Does that sound interesting to you? It does to me but I’m a bit of lazy bugger so I think it will be some time before I turn this into a full time income. But who cares, because I know that I have improved my chances of getting a win on the lottery by 3600% – Don’t believe me? Frankly I don’t care it does not change that fact whether you believe me or not, lol. I’ve had quite a few small wins, which is nice and who knows, a nice big win could be just over the horizon but, you’ve gotta be in it to win it!

Over the past 3 years VWD has gone from strength to strength. Real money is used by members to fund the syndicate lotto tickets. Payout is every week as regular as clockwork and I have never had any problems. With Virtual World Direct, you get a syndicate system that improves your odds of winning the UK lotto, Euro lotto or both dramatically. Who else pays you for matching just 2 balls on the UK lotto or one ball on the Euro Lotto? I shall tell you, nobody that’s who.

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If you are a newbie to LINUX as I am then like me you probably sometimes forget those cool switches you used in a command or maybe you edited a configuration file but forgot its path. For example, I might have been working with spamassassin and forgot how to start it or maybe forgot I edited its config file. I’m sure one of the first things you learned is the arrow up key to scroll through your history but what if you have used loads of commands since using the specific one your interested in… Try this:

[root@HostBlade ~]# history | grep spamassassin

This will search your command history for all occurences of spamassassin and return results similar to the following:

799 vi /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
800 cat /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
803 cat /var/spool/exim/.spamassassin/
821 ps aux | grep spamassassin
824 /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
831 chkconfig spamassassin on

So, from the above I can see that line 799 is what I typed to edit the config file. I can also see that line 824 is what I typed to start spamassassin.

I have found that using the history command in this way has really help me to remember more and more and although I still use it, I don’t use it as often as I used to. I hope other newbies will find this helpful. And, for all you LINUX gurus out there chuckling away to yourselves then don’t worry, your respect is still assured and your presence is still welcome.