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Something I do on a fairly regular basis is Find and Replace with Carriage Return. This little gem of information is so simple but so useful I thought I’d share it with you. When you have a big list extracted or exported from another application, you will frequently find that you have commas or spaces separating the items in the list. This is a bit annoying when you need to put the items into a vertical list i.e. a carriage return after each entry.

If your text editor supports regular expressions, it’s so easy. Perform a search/replace with your current separating character and replace it with \n . The standard programming representation for Carriage Return is backslash and ‘n’, this is used by the regular expression standard.

Posted in: resources by Julian Perry / Tags: Find and Replace with Carriage Return

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The big boys in Remote Desktop Web Access make it look as if you are going to get their service completely free. Then you go to their site and quickly find that they’re offering you a trial period. So what they are offering is NOT free. Their hope is that you’ll try it and then be so hooked you’ll stick with it and start paying. I can’t blame them for doing this as they are offering levels of support with their packages and they are looking to make a profit and obviously they have to pay the support staff. Now as you probably know, I’m an advocate of open source software and systems and by its very nature almost never comes with any level of support other than access to forums.

There are several completely free ways in which to make a remote connection to another desktop but invariably they require port forwarding through firewalls after downloading and installing software, assuming you know which ports to use. If you know what you’re doing then it’s reasonably easy to get things working, that’s also assuming that the other party knows what to do as well.

What we really want is a simple website to go to where both parties can see each other and make the connection. The closest to this is GoToMyPC which uses Java so you need Java runtime library installed on your PC. The advantage of this is that as long as you can install Java runtime, it doesn’t matter whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux. A lot of people already have this installed. The downside of GoToMyPC is that it currently costs $16.95 per computer per month on the monthly plan for 2-20 computers. I think that’s extortionate. Unfortunately I haven’t yet found a free system that works the same way. The only free RDP systems I know of are Microsoft RDP which is not present on the XP Home Edition and various versions of VNC which can be downloaded. One very good system is TeamViewer which is free for personal use but even this requires a license for commercial use. Most software companies that use GNU VNC at the core of their systems still end up charging for their product as they wrap a more friendly front end around VNC and add a few bells and whistles.

If any of you out there know of any free systems that operate like GoToMyPC then please leave some details in a comment.

Posted in: resources by Julian Perry / Tags: Remote Desktop Web Access for FREE

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I have been carrying out some experiments of my own using the “2 Minute Ranking” technique listed by Coty Schwabe.

I have now decided to share my findings in this 2 minute ranking update. First and by far the biggest consideration is how long has your domain been around and how much content does it already have? If you expect to buy a domain, fill it with content and then expect to see your content in 2 minutes, it isn’t going to happen.

New sites can take up to a month to appear in Google. After they appear for the first time, new content can still take the same length of time to appear in Google. You have to be prepared to wait quite a while and have a large amount of content until newly added content will appear in minutes.

This domain networkusall.com has been around since March 2nd 2008 and I have posted over 30 unique content articles. I am not saying that your domain has to be around that long or have that many articles but this is the only domain I have that will rank articles in minutes. I’ve performed tests on my other domains, even one that’s been around for at least 2 years and it took days for a new post to appear. Content is king and I am also starting to think that unless you are a dot com domain, you are way down the list with regard to fast ranking, perhaps someone will prove me wrong. If anyone out there has ranked a new post in minutes with a non-dot com then let me know in the comments, I would be very interested to know your experiences.

Most of my domains are .co.uk and I’ve not managed to rank any post faster than a few days.

Coty Schwabe does advise you to have good content and plenty of it but it would be interesting to identify the volume of content a domain has and how long it takes to appear in Google.

Posted in: Search Engine by Julian Perry / Tags: 2 Minute Ranking Update

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Amazing video explaining how Coty Schwabe gets site posts ranked in Google in just 2 minutes. It can take slightly longer e.g. 11 minutes but hey, who’s complaining when we’re talking minutes.

Watch his video at http://googledogsofwar.com/2-minute-ranking.html

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Posted in: Linux & Windows by Julian Perry / Tags: 2 Minute Ranking with Google

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Posted in: Business by Julian Perry / Tags: Losing weight without starving yourself with networkusall

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When it comes to choosing electronic products you really need to do your research. Understand the basics of what you are considering buying. For example, do you know what Blu-ray is exactly? If you think you know what you want then make sure before jumping in. If you’ve been considering buying a Blu-ray player then I would suggest taking a look at Ezine – Choosing-a-Blu-Ray-Player.

Posted in: Business by Julian Perry / Tags: blu-ray, electronic products

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Linux is an operating system like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike Windows and OS X it is free.
Now another common mistake is to use the phrase I have in my first sentence. Linux is NOT the name of the operating system. Linux is actually the name of what is called the Kernel which lies at the heart of many types of free operating systems. The Linux name given to all these operating systems is a convenient way to refer to a system which uses the Linux Kernel. Those of you familiar with the Unix type operating systems will be more at home with Linux Kernel based operating systems but having said that, in the graphics desktop environment, you can experience a Windows style desktop,


an OS X style desktop or any other style desktop you wish as the two most commonly used Linux based graphics desktop environments, GNOME and KDE, are completely configurable to your own preferred style or use. I use the word free above in the context of “free to use” and yes “free to modify” but, free to modify comes with some provisos. Under the GNU license which the Linux Kernel adheres to, if you modify a copy of the Linux Kernel, you must make this available to anyone else. The idea being that others may benefit from your modifications and they in turn may do the same and offer a continuation of improvements that will benefit the whole Linux community.
Well that’s the basis of Linux. It’s not an operating system on it’s own but forms the first building block on which GNU based operating systems are based. Here is just a sample list of these type of operating systems, also referred to as distributions or distros: Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, openSUSE, Mandriva, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Puppy, Sabayon, Arch, CentOS, Slackware, MEPIS, Tiny Core, FreeBSD, Kubuntu, Zenwalk, Vector, PC-BSD, Damn Small, Gentoo, KNOPPIX.

Posted in: linux by Julian Perry / Tags: desktop environments, free operating systems, gnu, kernel, linux, mac, unix, windows

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Some people prefer their min,max,close window buttons to be on the left – mac style.
Somehow I managed it then forgot how I did it so when I finally found how to do it AGAIN!, I thought I’d share it.

GNOME calls this “metacity button layout”.

From a terminal window, type gconf-editor.

Now navigate to apps/metacity/general and change the button_layout value as required.
The colon (:) indicates the left-side and right-side divider.

So, Windows style would be menu:minimize,maximize,close and Mac style would be close,minimize,maximize:menu.

Posted in: linux, mac by Julian Perry / Tags: button layout, buttons, close window, colon, divider, gnome, google, metacity, server, terminal window, window, window buttons

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Error for wireless request “Set Encode” (8B2A):
SET failed on device wlan0; Invalid argument.
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Failed to bring up wlan0.

After sifting through huge amounts of postings to forums about all the tweaks and options other people had tried and failed with, I found this article, that pointed out that CentOS 5 (and for that matter RHEL 5) simply doesn’t have all the required tools to make it work.

Here’s an outline of what you need to do:

1) Add Dag Wieers repo
from HERE.
Chose your flavour from the list.
Download the file to the root directory and extract all files.

2) yum install dkms-ipw3945

3) chkconfig –level 345 NetworkManager on
chkconfig –level 345 NetworkManagerDispatcher on

4) Reboot

You will now have an icon in your system tray from which you can simply configure your wireless connections.

Posted in: linux, network by Julian Perry / Tags: 3945ABG, CentOS, chkconfig, core components, dag wieers, device error, dual boot, google, invalid argument, networkmanager, plain and simple truth, repo, root directory, server, sifting through, sony vaio, sony vaio laptop, system tray, vaio, vital applications, wireless, wireless adapter, wireless connections

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Recently I tried to update my CentOS5 PC and had the following error:-

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* updates: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* addons: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* extras: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package libxml2.i386 0:2.6.26-2.1.2.8 set to be updated
—> Package xulrunner.i386 0:1.9.0.12-1.el5 set to be updated
—> Package libxml2-python.i386 0:2.6.26-2.1.2.8 set to be updated
—> Package libtiff.i386 0:3.8.2-7.el5_3.4 set to be updated
—> Package apr.i386 0:1.2.7-11.el5_3.1 set to be updated
—> Package bind-utils.i386 30:9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3 set to be updated
—> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 set to be installed
—> Package nss.i386 0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5.centos.2 set to be updated
—> Package apr-util.i386 0:1.2.7-7.el5_3.2 set to be updated
—> Package tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api.i386 0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2 set to be updated
—> Package bind-libs.i386 30:9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3 set to be updated
—> Package tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api.i386 0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2 set to be updated
—> Package python.i386 0:2.4.3-24.el5_3.6 set to be updated
—> Package nss-tools.i386 0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5.centos.2 set to be updated
—> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 set to be updated
—> Package nspr.i386 0:4.7.4-1.el5_3.1 set to be updated
—> Package firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos set to be updated
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 29, in ?
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 229, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 145, in main
(result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 647, in buildTransaction
(rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py”, line 704, in resolveDeps
for po, dep in self._checkFileRequires():
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py”, line 939, in _checkFileRequires
if not self.tsInfo.getOldProvides(filename) and not self.tsInfo.getNewProvides(filename):
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py”, line 414, in getNewProvides
for pkg, hits in self.pkgSack.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems():
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py”, line 300, in getProvides
return self._computeAggregateDictResult(“getProvides”, name, flags, version)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py”, line 470, in _computeAggregateDictResult
sackResult = apply(method, args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 861, in getProvides
return self._search(“provides”, name, flags, version)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 43, in newFunc
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 837, in _search
for pkg in self.searchFiles(name, strict=True):
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 43, in newFunc
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 586, in searchFiles
self._sql_pkgKey2po(rep, cur, pkgs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 470, in _sql_pkgKey2po
pkg = self._packageByKey(repo, ob['pkgKey'])
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 413, in _packageByKey
po = self.pc(repo, cur.fetchone())
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 68, in __init__
self._read_db_obj(db_obj)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py”, line 94, in _read_db_obj
setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item]))
TypeError: unsubscriptable object

After some searching and checking several suggestions, I found the cause and solution to be very simple.
The yum cache had become corrupted.

The solution:

cd /var/cache/yum
rm -rf *
yum makecache

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yum update then worked perfectly.

Many thanks to http://just-another.net.

Posted in: linux by Julian Perry / Tags: bind, CentOS, cli, exit code, init, jsp, kernel, lib, linux, mirror, p1, py, python, server, sov, sys, update, yum

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