The rationale is that since Google has invested a lot into Google Book Search, it makes sense that a citation in books about a business could be part of Google’s ranking algorithm.

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Though I cannot consider myself a Unix veteran having only worked around 5 years on Unix-like systems, I admire the hardworking Unix veteran geek. I try to understand why they seem arrogant at times. I hope to be one day be like them…except that I would want to be a customer centric Unix geek.

In summary, here are their traits:

• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 1: We don’t use sudo
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 2: We use vi, not emacs, and definitely not pico or nano
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 3: We wield regular expressions like weapons
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 4: We’re inherently lazy
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 5: We prefer elegant solutions
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 6: We generally assume the problem is with whomever is asking the question
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 7: We have more in common with medical examiners than doctors
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 8: We know more about Windows than we’ll ever let on
• Veteran Unix admin trait No. 9: Rebooting is almost never an option

See the full post of Paul Venezia from InfoWorld.

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Google’s only allowed links is a non-paid links. Even if you say that you are linking back to the advertiser’s site, it is still your responsibility as a site owner not to add a vote to that advertiser’s site. Otherwise, you’ll get penalized.

Just like what I advocated while still an in-house SEO, NOT putting a rel=”nofollow” to an advertised link will harm your site. At that time, I am a one man team and nowhere could I see references of what’s really Google’s stand on the paid link issue. Will they penalize a site for linking back to an advertiser? I discussed my views to the owner.

To be exact though, I originally recommended putting an exception to some sites that passed some of our internal criteria (but we will not tell the site owners) but good thing that my boss told me if we are to put rel=”nofollow”, we should do it for all or not use it at all.

Just look at the recent penalty by Google on JC Penny, et al.

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Erasing an entire SSD hard drive is difficult

When the researchers used the drive’s built in “Erase Unit” command — that’s a legacy ATA-era command and it doesn’t work on USB drives — of the twelve SSDs tested, only four were completely erased. (One of the drives is automatically encrypted, so they couldn’t tell if it was erased properly or not.) One of the drives reported it had been erased when, in fact, all of its data was immediately accessible. #FAIL.

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I love delicious and have stored a lot of useful resources there (more than 2,000+) that I started to look for alternatives…that can be hosted in my site. I want a long term solution without me having to pay for it that the natural thing to do is search from the open source world which led me to scuttle.

Installation is fairly easy:

• change config.inc.php.example to config.inc.php, edit the necessary details
• put-up the sql database
• Define an alias to my apache vhost and reload

…you’re done.

Now, since I don’t want to others to register an account in my bookmark, I did some quick hack after I created an account:

• comment out the register section in templates/about.tpl.php
• delete or archive templates/about.tpl.php and replace it with an empty php page

That’s it! Then, I imported my bookmarks from delicious (take note it won’t work in Chrome) and save the corresponding xml output to file. Check out my bookmark.

yum -y install gcc automake autoconf libtool make

Thanks to php.ph for the tip!

SSH Host Key Verification Failure

Add correct host key in /home/icasimpan/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /home/icasimpan/.ssh/known_hosts:61

My usual approach is either:

• to completely remove the known_hosts file
• open known_hosts via vi and go to line 61 and delete the line

The first approach, though it will only take you one command, has a side effect
of deleting all the known_hosts file which means, you have to manually answer “yes”
again to all the hosts you connect to…

The authenticity of host ‘theirdomain.tld.local (::1)’ can’t be established.
RSA key fingerprint is e8:1f:f0:96:9c:ce:ad:b2:e6:60:e5:63:14:f6:2f:cf.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

yet another hassle.

My second approach would take you 5 steps:

1. Open the file
2. Search the line
3. Delete the line
4. Save your changes
5. Quit the editor

I search for another solution and found this simple perl one liner to delete a line:
Thanks to ishnid on devshed.com

perl -ni -e ‘print unless /pattern/’ /path/to/filename

To translate this to the example above, your actual command will become:

perl -ni -e ‘print unless /yourdomain.tld/’ /home/icasimpan/.ssh/known_hosts

Traditional OSX Boot Image

Checkout BootXChanger.

BootXChanger is a free tool that’s very easy to use. You just launch it and drag a new image onto its window and click “Apply.” Restart your computer and you’ll see your new image while Mac OS X starts up.

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