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This plugin allows WordPress blog posts to show up in your Facebook Mini-Feed and your friends’ News Feeds. (Not Wordpress.com.)
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A list of the most useful 50 blogs with advice on frugal living.
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We may not end evil this year, but with your help we will work hard to get a government grant to study doing so. L.O.S.E. so We Can Win!
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Some of the greatest people in history have educated themselves to a large degree using a process known as autodidacticism. This is something that’s more easily undertaken these days with the great wealth of online tools available to anyone.
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The antidote to the annoyingly sentimental Post Secret! Hilarious!!!
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Pageant parents and the moron who does this “retouching” ought to be SHOT.
Funny digg comments: http://digg.com/design/Picture_Digital_Retouching_Taken_TOO_FAR
Even better (old): http://www.somethingawful.com/d/legal-threats/crazy-doll-lady.php
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Find out how to customize your Facebook into a productivity launchpad.
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“At any given moment on the front page of Digg…”
(This is DEAD ON.)
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Nothing gets changed in your Windows OS and there is almost nothing to it. In three unbelievable easy steps, anyone – even people that have never seen the looks of a Linux OS – can install Ubuntu on their computer.
Lance says:
Re: Become an Autodidact: 10 Ways to Become a Self Taught Master
This is terrible!!
I’ve been happy & satisfied becoming a self-taught Linux Geek (It’s now official, even though I can’t do CLI or Emacs worth a damn!!)
After this post I’ll have to start thinking of myself as an autodidactic linux geek! My friends will start shunning me!!
It sounds like I have some sort of new psychological or physical disorder, in addition to the ones I already have!!
I like “self-taught” a whole lot better!!
Lance says:
Re: Install Ubuntu from Windows in 3 Steps without Using a CD
In my experience as a new autodidact Linux geek, (in Alabama only!!) this is a great idea with a fatal flaw!
What do you do when weendoz won’t boot or does the BSOD dance, or get a virus???
With Linux on it’s own partition & using a linux boot loader, (Lilo or Grub) you can still bootup & use Linux to get back on the innertoobes, do email or continue working on your weendoz documents from OpenOffice.org in Linux! I’ve done it!!
It is no longer difficult to setup & format a partition for linux on a hard drive! In fact it’s easier than a lot of the admin tasks you have to do to keep weendoz working!! Plus there’s a lot of help available to help noobies do this! (no further comment on this subject!)
Downloading & burning a CD-ROM of Ubuntu is easy. Or it can be bought cheap! Then you always have a live-CD of Ubuntu you can use when weendoz won’t work. This is how easy using a computer should be!!
Beth, thanks for this post!! Your Linux posts are helping get the word out to the
masses of abused microsoft slaves!!
Scott says:
Damn. I was hoping the *50 blogs on frugal living* would lead me to some free MP3’s. Oh well. :dog:
Beth says:
Good question. I’m not sure if Wubi sets up the partition or not, but if it doesn’t, fuckit. I’ll do it the regular way.
I’ll shoot you an email about it.
raz0r says:
Wubi doesn’t partition the drive. It creates a disk image in the Windows filesystem. If the MBR or the Windows bootloader (NTLDR) gets messed up, you will need to fix it using the Recovery Console. You could use a DOS floppy with fdisk on it to fix the MBR: fdisk /mbr
Back up the boot.ini as well. This is what NTLDR references when it loads an OS. It’s just a text file so you could just print it out and edit/recreate it if needed.
A virus could only affect the Linux install if it was a Windows virus that erased the drive (not likely) or deleted files off the drive. Someone could write code to mount the disk image as RW and replace files to alter the Linux image. Not impossible, but unlikely to occur.
raz0r says:
From the Wubi FAQ:
http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php
How does Wubi work?
Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), this file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk.