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wget and lynx
Linux and Unix gurus can ignore this post, but if you have better tips to share, please feel free to comment. I write this mainly as a note to myself and hopefully help out Linux / Unix newbies at the same time. wget is perfect for downloading stuff through a command line. This is a…
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芝加哥公共图书馆有中文书
芝加哥公共图书馆有很多分馆散落在城市的居民区. 总部在市中心, 是一座红墙绿顶的9层建筑. 据说是世界上占地面积最大的公共图书馆. 图书馆的7层收藏非英文的报纸, 杂志, 和书籍. 我因为上班地点里这儿不远, 所以成了常客. 这里的中文书不是很多, 但够我读一阵子;) 更何况我是中英文轮换着读. 如果你住在芝加哥, 我建议你去看一看.
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Sample Baseball Database for Learning, Testing, and Demo
I came across this from a blog I follow. Dbt even provided a nifty script to figure out the most recent world series win, loss and appearance for every team in the league. I first heard about this database probably a year ago. Anyway, I thought this really is a great database for my baseball-loving…
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Pointers on WordPress customization please
I’ve had my blog for a couple of weeks by now. It was hosted by MidPhase. I used it because it had good reviews and a colleague recommended it. Based on my experience so far, I am not too happy with it. I will leave that for another post. Anyway, I am actually pretty happy…
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Fix Page 404 Error in WordPress
If 1. You use WordPress; 2. You have permalink turned on; 3. You just wrote a page using WordPress but when you view the page, you get 404 page not found error; Then 1. Go to Options->Permalinks; 2. Click Update Permalink Structure. If your .htaccess cannot be updated through the web interface (very likely), copy…