A great tool for web site owners is to be able to rank your web traffic and estimate the reach of your web site to the world. A tool I have used forever is Alexa (alexa.com) which will allow you to compare your site to others sites and see various other statistics about any site…
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Recently I decided to split my Twitter feeds into personal and business so it would be easier to read technical tweets separate and distinct from the personal Twitter feeds I wanted to follow. So I decided to keep the first account for my personal account since my friends will already know how to find me…
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When using the network protocol analyzer Wireshark, if you’re specifically looking for the payload, look for the [PSH, ACK] tag in the “Info” column. Once you click on the row with that tag, you will see the “Data” node in the packet window as shown in the attached window. Wireshark TCP data The other tags…
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I use a tool called Wireshark to monitor network activity including IP traffic. Sometimes, when I’m running a music app, chat client, etc, the traffic can get overwhelming obviously. Put the following line in the Filter toolbar text field to filter by destination IP: ip.addr == 76.42.1.37 Once you apply the filter, you can sort…
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On a lot of Twitter feeds you will see a image to the left of the feed itself which makes it look as if the Twitter page itself has been designed. Basically what people are doing is adding a background image and typically using the tile feature to tile the image across the background. One…
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Below is information regarding the use of the git log command. There are numerous git log options described below including showing a single revision, a certain number of revisions, revisions since a certain date, and showing more details about revisions. The git log command can be useful to see specifically what has been checked in…
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I was attempting to view the contents of what I thought was a SQLite3 database file so I needed a GUI of some sort to do so. Anyhow first I decided to install SQLite. Once I did this and created a test database to make sure to SQLite GUI was working I finally decided the…
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One of my sisters recently sent me a link to a photo gallery slide show online at kodakgallery.com. The gallery is in a flash slideshow format where you can scroll through the pictures, etc. I wanted to save a couple of the pictures to my desktop to upload to a personal photo gallery however within the flash…
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Modifying user level permissions in Redmine is fairly easy though it is done in two locations. The first location to modify user permissions is “Roles and Permissions” under the Administration section. The second location is Workflow which is also located under the Administration section. Below I describe a bit more about each section and what…
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