Sunday, November 27, 2011
Google I-Phone Blogger Test
Friday, November 25, 2011
Productivity Problems
For example.. all I wanted to do was write a short blog concerning some OTHER issues in technology and browser capabilities. That's it. Log in. Write. Get out.
But instead I'm met with popups concerning the new 'dynamic view' of blah blah blah, and more trash pushed at me by these overpaid, pompous assholes. After closing it down three or four times, I finally decided.. screw it and move on. But.. that didn't really work either. It looks like after writing this I'm probably going to have to spend 30 minutes or more just looking around to see why I'm getting the message and how to stop it. That wasn't on my GTD list today, but it will have to be addressed.
The reason these programmers do this is simple. They haven't been able to make the connection between the number of hours spent on this kind of stuff for the users...and their income. All they know is that they are Google/Microsoft/Facebook/ whatever employees and their future is secure. At least they think it is. What they can't put their heads around is that while they are wasting the users time with these invasive tactics...their users productivity is being driven down. Since their users productivity is being effected, so is their users income. Because the users income is less, they won't be able to spend the money necessary to support these programmers products.
I'm no longer going to waste my breathe/life trying to explain this. If you don't get it..so what. My plans are to take the steps to protect myself from them, ie: dropping services from companies that insist on these tactics.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Change JomSocial Latest Groups Background
| Project: Change the Latest Groups background color on a JomSocial website? | |
Description: If you install JomSocial on the Rocket Theme Panacea - you will get an issue with the color and size of the fonts in the 'Latest Groups" area on the right hand side of the FrontPage when logged into JomSocial. You will have white fonts on a white background, which makes it impossible to read. I'm sure there are many fixes for this… however this is my solution.
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| Project Goals: Create a step by step explanation of how to manage the colors and sizes of the fonts in the 'Latest Groups" area of a JomSocial installation. Even though this example is for Rocket Theme's Panacea template, the files you would change on any installation would remain the same. | |
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Removing Spyware
Title: Removing Spyware and Malware |
Content: Removing Spyware/Malware and Viruses is a tricky business. The people that write the stuff have criminal, devious minds…and this is reflected in the way that they attack your machine. You will notice that I didn't say 'smart'. Most of the stuff that they do is actually very simple, but the results can wreck your day, week, month. In the beginning there was really no reason for them to do these kinds of things. All that has changed in the last few years. With the popularity, easy access, and total obliviousness to reality that the Internet has brought us… these deviants can now attack your wallet from the comfort of their mom's basement. All they have to do is write a virus… then charge the unsuspecting victim to remove it. It's called Ransomware. What it means is that your machine is held for ransom, until you pay them for their removal process. Don't ask who would pay for their services. Plenty of people pay them or else they wouldn't engage in this type of activity. At any rate… here are my notes on a few things you can do to remove Antispyware from your machine. Each version is a little different, so some of these may not work on your actual installation. If none of this works, then contact me through the comment section of this post and I'll provide you with other options.
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Friday, January 7, 2011
How to use the Robots.txt file
| Project: Create a page explaining the tools need to learn how do you block a site using the Robots.txt file? |
| Description: A short tutorial on what the robots.txt file does. |
| Project Goals: The basic lines of text that are in the robots.txt file are important in terms of what the search engines index on your website. How to do that is explained in this page, taken from robotstxt.org … one of the best sources for learning more about what this file does. This page is here, so that I can keep the information easily accessible to me, and others… |
| About /robots.txt In a nutshell Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol. It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds: User-agent: * Disallow: / The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site. There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt:
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The /robots.txt is a de-facto standard, and is not owned by any standards body. There are two historical descriptions:
The /robots.txt standard is not actively developed. See What about further development of /robots.txt? for more discussion. The rest of this page gives an overview of how to use /robots.txt on your server, with some simple recipes. To learn more see also the FAQ. How to create a /robots.txt file Where to put it The short answer: in the top-level directory of your web server. The longer answer: When a robot looks for the "/robots.txt" file for URL, it strips the path component from the URL (everything from the first single slash), and puts "/robots.txt" in its place. For example, for "http://www.example.com/shop/index.html, it will remove the "/shop/index.html", and replace it with "/robots.txt", and will end up with "http://www.example.com/robots.txt". So, as a web site owner you need to put it in the right place on your web server for that resulting URL to work. Usually that is the same place where you put your web site's main "index.html" welcome page. Where exactly that is, and how to put the file there, depends on your web server software. Remember to use all lower case for the filename: "robots.txt", not "Robots.TXT. See also:
The "/robots.txt" file is a text file, with one or more records. Usually contains a single record looking like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /~joe/ In this example, three directories are excluded. Note that you need a separate "Disallow" line for every URL prefix you want to exclude -- you cannot say "Disallow: /cgi-bin/ /tmp/" on a single line. Also, you may not have blank lines in a record, as they are used to delimit multiple records. Note also that globbing and regular expression are not supported in either the User-agent or Disallow lines. The '*' in the User-agent field is a special value meaning "any robot". Specifically, you cannot have lines like "User-agent: *bot*", "Disallow: /tmp/*" or "Disallow: *.gif". What you want to exclude depends on your server. Everything not explicitly disallowed is considered fair game to retrieve. Here follow some examples: To exclude all robots from the entire server User-agent: * Disallow: / To allow all robots complete access User-agent: * Disallow: (or just create an empty "/robots.txt" file, or don't use one at all) To exclude all robots from part of the server User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /junk/ To exclude a single robot User-agent: BadBot Disallow: / To allow a single robot User-agent: Google Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: / To exclude all files except one This is currently a bit awkward, as there is no "Allow" field. The easy way is to put all files to be disallowed into a separate directory, say "stuff", and leave the one file in the level above this directory: User-agent: * Disallow: /~joe/stuff/ Alternatively you can explicitly disallow all disallowed pages: User-agent: * Disallow: /~joe/junk.html Disallow: /~joe/foo.html Disallow: /~joe/bar.html Clipped on 28-December-2010, 3 : 53 PM from http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html Other Notes |
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