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7 June 2008 9 Comments

A Different Spin on the Tip Jar

My friend, Jim Kukral is a great marketing guy, so he started working me on Scratchback late last year when he first launched it.
Scratchback makes the assumption (whether correctly, or incorrectly) that people who like what you do want to give something back to you. Regular people don’t want to make an ad buy, but [...]

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31 October 2006 9 Comments

Blackberry Assistance Needed?

I have a new Blackberry that I rely on in my new found ever-mobile role. Blackberrys are not new for me. I supported them regularly at my last job. But at my last job, they were locked into Blackberry Enterprise Servers, Exchange and ever-vigilant spam killing. Now, I have both my Gmail and b5media emails [...]

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16 October 2004 2 Comments

Linux Tip: Translating DOS to Linux

Many Linux users come from a DOS/Windows background or use DOS/Windows command line features on a regular basis for work or what not. Here’s a list of methods of achiving DOS/Windows results from a Linux commandline.
DOS Command: dir, dir/w
Linux Equivalent: ls, ls -l
DOS Command: chdir (Current directory)
Linux Equivalent: pwd
DOS Command: del (remove a file)
Linux Equivalent: [...]

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