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Windows vs Linux VPS Hosting cost and benefit analysis

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Linewbie.com Posted in general topics, internet/web, quotes & thoughts .

This must be just about the most famous inquiries in VPS (Electronic Private Server) internet hosting sector. It is almost always inevitably questioned by individuals who have only recently encounter the expression VPS. It will be justified from the various sites which display the many types regarding OS program based bundles but attention little concerning providing information about what that really results in from any customer’s viewpoint. To start out with, from ab muscles outset, the key change in those two platforms could be the kernel form of which occurs in the particular Linux methods.

Linux is simply an elaboration with the UNIX kernel with additional added characteristics and applications constructed into it. Linux provides various distributions inside of it which can be built simply by modifying certain areas of the foundation version regarding Linux. One other advantage is the file system employed by Linux will not run files with all the extension “. exe”. This makes the job of trojan protection very easy as many viruses are with the. exe file format. Also the device is robust and in addition offers any Command Series Interface which can be very user-friendly and successful. And to be able to top all of it “CPanel “the world’s most user-friendly hosting handle panel operates only inside Linux.
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Keep Internet junk content away with content filters

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, internet/web, linux.com, tips .

Each day, I come across someone on the blogosphere complaining about the design of a Web site. Some don’t like screaming text, others don’t like banners, and still others hate ads. My pet peeves include pop-ups and unwanted JavaScript and cookies. Removing such junk can speed up your Internet connection, since you’re no longer wasting bandwidth downloading data you find useless. Here are some tools you can use to filter the content a Web site renders to you.

Privoxy

Privoxy is a standalone application full of impressive features. It’s a breeze to install. Its default settings are ideal for most users. Fedora and Ubuntu users can respectively install it with the commands yum install privoxy and sudo apt-get install privoxy, or you can grab the source tarball and install it with the commands ./configure, make, make install. Once installed, Privoxy will bind to localhost (127.0.0.1) at port 8118. You can choose a different port and network interface during the manual installation, or specify it under section 4.1 of the /etc/privoxy/config file.

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Tags: dansguardian, filters, Privoxy, squid, webcleaner .

Remove the dotted border around hyper links with CSS

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in design & development, internet/web .

Almost all websites have them, and they are just extraordinary ugly: Dotted borders around text links. They show up when you click a link and won’t go away till you clicked somewhere else, reloaded the page or moved to another page:

Yes, I know that you saw that before. But why are all those sites displaying those ugly borders? I don’t know, because you don’t need to know any advanced techniques to remove the border! Just add the following code to your CSS document:

a {
outline: none;
}

And gone are the dotted borders!

But does that validate?

It’s easy to think that everyone isn’t using this because it doesn’t validate, though it does validate! Check it out on the W3C Validator on your page if you don’t believe me.

But why isn’t everyone using this?

Because most people don’t know that it is possible In the past it was necessary to have the dotted border around licked links to see if you actually clicked it or not (in he past we had sow computers, so it took a while before the thing actually started downloading the new site). Today we don’t need that anymore in most cases, so please add this code to your Cascading Style Sheets and stop the ugliness!

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Tags: css, dotted lines, hyperlinks, link dot .

25+ Sources For Royalty Free Creative Commons Content and Resource

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in design & development, multimedia .

We’ve talked about about all the ways to design and build your site, but where are you ever going to get content to fill it with? We’ve gathered 25+ sources of content licensed under Creative Commons. Enjoy!

Audio

    ccmixter

ArtistServer.com – Thousands of MP3s for you to download and try out smaller bands.

ccMixter.org – A site to try your hand at mixing and mashing music that is all offered under the CC.

Jamendo.com – A music site providing free, full-length albums for you to download. You pay the artists what you want, or just spread the word about them.

PodShow.com – A site filling your MP3 player with Creative Commons licensed music, that allows you to discover old and new music alike.

SoundClick.com – A site for bands, both signed and unsigned, to be promoted. Offers free, downloadable, legal MP3s from some bands.

TheFreeSoundProject – A huge collection of CC licensed sound effects files.

General Searches

    Yahoo cc search

Archive.org – Known mainly for their “Wayback Machine” as a means for seeing old pages on the net, they have also collected together a huge collection of free-to-use recordings and texts.

Freebase.com – A community powered search engine to search the web for CC licensed work for you to use.

Google Advanced Search – Google gives you the option to include forms of licensing in your search.

Wikimedia Commons – The central clearing area for the Wikimedia projects CC files.

Yahoo Creative Commons Search – Yahoo allows you to search the entire web for what you need based on the licenses attached to the content.

Images

    everystockphoto.com

DeviantArt.com – A site for artists to display their works. Some are nice enough to license under CC for your use.

EveryStockPhoto.com – Indexes over 1.4 million Creative Commons photos for your use.

Flickr Creative Commons search – Search Flickr for all the derivatives of the Creative Commons licensing.

Geograph.org.uk – An attempt to photograph the entirety of the British Isles, and at the same time, license all the photos under the CC.

OpenClipArt.org – An archive of free-to-use clipart numbering around 11,000 pieces.

PhotoEverywhere.co.uk – A travel & tourism photo site offering stock photography for everyone’s use.

TakeIdeas.com – Share your photos, or find ones that inspire you.

TravellersPoint.com – A wiki for travellers with a large collection of CC licensed travel photography.

Yotophoto.com – Indexes photos in the public domain and free-to-use licenses.

Texts

    unearthtravel

IntraText.com – A site featuring thousands of texts from 900 B.C. to this decade. Most works are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

UnearthTravel.com – Read travel guides about your favorite destinations.

Videos

    lulu.tv

Blip.tv – Allows video makers to assign multiple types of licenses to their content, users can search on each type.

Lulu.TV – A CC license site with embeddable videos

OurMedia.org – A video specific service run by archive.org, allowing users to host their videos under the Creative Commons license.

Revver.com – A video upload site very like YouTube, but all content defaults to the Creative Commons license.

SpinXpress.com – Share your video, audio, and images through various versions of the CC license.

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Tags: creative commons, free content, free creative, free resource, wayback machine, wikimedia commons .

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