Category Archives: techie stuff

FireSheep Makes Identity Theft Easy

Posted on October 27, 2010 by 1Earth

Unless you’re a techie, you probably haven’t heard of FireSheep yet.  But with 263,967 and counting downloads, you better hear about it quickly before you feel it.

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Google Spied? No, Google did Idiots a favour

Posted on October 24, 2010 by 1Earth

This is just one of many articles over the last view months with what is, in my opinion, a sensationalistic headline : Google Street View Car Spied on you. Apparently the Google Street View Car that drives along the roads of developed … Continue reading →

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How to Password Protect your Wireless Network

Posted on October 24, 2010 by 1Earth

Here’s some basic instructions for how to password protect your wireless network.  I have a TP LINK Wireless ADSL Router (TD-W8910G), so yours might be slightly different to do, but you should get the gist.

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Excel Formula To Generate 13 Digit Barcode Check Digit

Posted on August 10, 2010 by 1Earth

I’m was preparing data in an Excel spreadsheet for import into an OpenBravoPOS database, and I needed to generate check digits for my custom barcodes.  So here’s the Excel formula I came up with to generate a 13-digit barcode check … Continue reading →

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Mac Upgrade Circus

Posted on July 24, 2010 by 1Earth

I was called in at 9 this morning for some routine maintenance and an upgrade or two of the computer that Just Works. Mac Don’t Always Just Work I started at 9:20am – faced with the 2-year-or-so old Intel Mac … Continue reading →

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Disable, Limit and Delete WordPress Revisions

Posted on July 19, 2010 by 1Earth

For me a major WordPress Blog annoyance is the WordPress Revisions feature. It essentially saves a copy of your post or page every time you update it. If you share my frustration, here’s how to stop or limit WordPress Revisions … Continue reading →

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A New Theme for 1Earth is Coming

Posted on July 15, 2010 by 1Earth

Ever since I switched 1EarthAdventures to WordPress way back when… erm *flipsthroughblog*, on 15 October 2005 or not too long after, I’ve been using this awesome Illacrimo Theme from Design Disease. However, this is 2010 and my blog has evolved … Continue reading →

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Repair XP MBR with only an Ubuntu Live CD

Posted on July 5, 2010 by 1Earth

I just deleted and old Ubuntu off the Journo’s dual-boot Ubuntu/XP HP Pavillion and along with it Ubuntu’s Grub and her Master Boot Record (MBR), which of course rendered the machine useless. I had an Ubuntu 10.04 Lycid Lynx Live … Continue reading →

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OpenBravo on Ubuntu Server 9.10

Posted on April 1, 2010 by 1Earth

Fresh off several failed attempts to make OpenERP work on Ubuntu Sever 9.10, I’m hungry to make something work and so I’m diving straight into installing OpenBravo on Ubuntu Server 9.10. 12.28pm For the sake of starting afresh I’m reinstalling … Continue reading →

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How to make OpenERP work on Ubuntu Server 9.10

Posted on April 1, 2010 by 1Earth

Yes, the title of this post is a good question.  At the moment I don’t have the answer, but I sure am trying to find it and hopefully, by the end of this post I will have it. Update: I’ll … Continue reading →

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