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WordPress Plugin: Google Sitemap Generator.

Every website on the WWW will have to kowtow to Google nowadays, as in comply to their webmaster’s guidelines. Having your site being listed in the supplemental search results is the last thing a webmaster ever wanted, besides being banned by Google Adsense.

So I figured it’s time for me to organize all the posts in this blog and come out with a sitemap, in order to submit to the Google Webmaster Tools. Google Sitemap Generator is one of the top ten results upon Google search.

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Tags: generator, google, plugin, sitemap, WordPress

Debian: DeKorator for KDE Window Decorations.

Yes, back with some tweaks on my debian box. For someone who faces monitor most of the time, boring desktop can kill the day. This is another post for the KDE desktop fans, look at this window decoration.

DeKorator
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Tags: Debian, dekorator, kde, window-decoration

Thunderbird: Enable Logging for Multiple Protocols How-To.

Often you will find yourself in situation that needs a little bit of debugging. I am today, something in my Icedove mail client(thunderbird) is not right, keeps connecting to the server with 15 – 30 connections at the same time, so I wanted to know what’s going on. I figured maybe there will be some options available in the program, however, it’s not there.

Surprisingly, logging of Thunderbird has to be done outside the program. Here’s how I did it, on both Debian and Windows machine.

On Debian

All you need to do is prepare a shell script on your desktop, double click it to run Thunderbird instead of your previous desktop icon. Name the file runTB.sh, or any name you prefer.
[code]
#!/bin/sh

MYDATE=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
NSPR_LOG_MODULES=POP3:4,SMTP:4
NSPR_LOG_FILE=~/Desktop/icedove_${MYDATE}.log
export NSPR_LOG_MODULES NSPR_LOG_FILE

/usr/bin/icedove &
exit $?
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Tags: howto, logging, mozilla, thunderbird

Firefox Extensions: Save As Image, save any web page as image.

For the blogging need, we will run into web pages that we want to screenshot it entirely from time to time. I usually use KSnapshot on my debian desktop, or ALT+PrintScreen on windows laptop. Both work well except the fact that, they capture the whole screen.

Save As Image is a neat extension, that lets you save any particular web page into image, so you don’t have to further edit the screenshot to remove the browser window, and window tabs.

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Tags: extension, firefox, save-as-image, screenshot

10 Things You Might Want To Know Before Switching Over To Linux.

I’m a Linux supporter, went through a lot of learning process to get where I am today, never looked back ever since. I often encourage friends, family, business contact to try Linux, with tone like “It’s just that easy!!”, without telling them the time and sweat. I thought it’s a common sense, that you have to learn it, if it’s new to you. Unfortunately this is not the case, people tends to expect everything just work out of the box. So, my experience is, don’t tell someone about Linux, when he/she asks about how to connect to Internet with Windows.

Think Thick, however, has gathered some facts, for those who really want to try out Linux. I’ll quote the 10 facts here.

1. The basic installation of most mainstream Linux distributions is very easy, but a first time user might run into trouble when trying to depart from the defaults.
2. If you want a proper Linux installation, you are going to have to mess around with the partition table.
3. You will have to learn how to use the command line.
4. All those pretty effects of wobbly windows and cube desktops require some work from the user.
5. Yes, more hardware works with Linux than with Windows. No, not all hardware works 100% like it’s supposed to.
6. If you need/want to install a package not included in the repositories, or install from source, you might need to do some research.
7. Most mainstream software manufacturers forget about Linux.
8. Linux is not for the meek of heart.
9. Linux is almost entirely virus/trojan/spyware free, but you will still need some kind of protection.
10. Linux assumes that you are an intelligent person.

How’s that sound? Read the full article here.