Common English mistakes

May 16, 2007 by Brian in Guides, Personal

We have such a complex, crazy language that it’s hard to keep everything straight. Take a look at this list for some of the more common mistakes. If these are all “common”, then I guess we have a lot of bad writers out there.

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IT Jobs

September 13, 2006 by Brian in Guides, Tech, Work

Getting a job in the IT field can be really difficult unless you know people or know how to market yourself. It’s not enough just to know your stuff. The people who get the jobs are the ones who either know someone who can get them a gig or are really good at promoting themselves. [...]

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Using YUM to Update KDE on White Box Enterprise Linux 4

June 27, 2005 by Brian in Guides, Linux

You must be Root to do this. You must also not be running KDE when you do this. At the graphical log-in screen, press CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to a prompt. Install YUM. If you don’t have this installed, place the 4th CD in the drive. Look for the file ‘yum-2.2.0-0.fc3.rpm’ and copy it to your [...]

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Firefox Tricks

February 25, 2005 by Brian in Guides

These tips were found over at the Firefox Support Forums site. The ones listed here are the ones I use all the time and so I thought I would share. If you’re not using Firefox yet, you should. CTRL+T (Control + T) opens a new blank tab. Instead of clicking the Back or Forward buttons, [...]

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Server service

January 23, 2005 by Brian in Guides

The Windows Server service allows a computer to share printers and files with other computers. It’s a resource hog that you may want to shut down and disable if you don’t plan to share files or printers with others. However, you may want to enable this service temporarily to share some files. Here’s a quick [...]

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