An annoying Windows error message, with a simple fix. After copying some corrupted files onto my external Seagate hard drive I realized I could not delete them. I kept getting the error message, “Cannot read from the source file or disk” when I tried removing them. Finally I found the solution to my dilemma, “chkdsk”:
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Have you ever bookmarked a website and noticed that there was a small icon next to the text? That icon is know as a “favicon” and you can have one for your website too. There are many tutorials out there which instruct you to download and install programs and edit images to create favicons, but […]

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I came across the term while reading a story on /. about bloggers fighting comment spam by “Googlebombing” Wikipedia’s “Online Poker” page. I had never heard this term before so I looked it up at Wikipedia.org:
A Google bomb or Google wash is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned […]

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If the Open Source Software world had Seven Wonders, Samba would certainly be one of them. Here is how the software is described on Samba.org:
“Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example, UNIX, Linux, IBM System 390, OpenVMS, and other operating systems. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol […]

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I have been using Subversion (svn) as my version control system for a while now. I have had no problems with it and would recommend it to anyone considering implementing their own version control system. If you are unfamiliar with what a version control system is, check out the following passage from the Subversion eBook:
Subversion […]

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