I see that many people are still not aware of the various ways to insert a euro € symbol into their various e-mails, blog posts, IMs etc. and so I’m hoping that these tips will help somebody out there. If you are one of those people, read on!
As I constantly have two operating systems running at the same time, mainly Fedora Core 13 and Windows XP, the way that I have found works nicely in both is quite simply to hold down the Alt key which is to the right of the spacebar, then hit 4 which is typically also where the dollar $ symbol is on my keyboards.
If you are on Windows however and the above tip does not work for you for some reason, try the next one. Again, hold down the Alt key which is to the right of your keyboard and then on your numeric keypad, type 0128 and then release your Alt key.
Let me know if this works for you.
What?: distributed.net was the Internet’s first general-purpose distributed computing project. 
Why?:
- Why not?
- The client uses idle CPU time only, so it doesn’t affect the way you use a computer.
- In the end, some money goes to some nice organizations, such as the EFF.
- More info, in their FAQ.
Why on a Dreambox?:
- A Dreambox is just another PC running a version of Embedded Linux called BusyBox.
- Since the dnetc client uses only idle time of its CPU, it does not affect your viewing experience on the Dreambox and you won’t even know it is running.
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I wasn’t at all sure how well or badly this theme will behave with the newly released WordPress 3.0, but for anyone looking for information, you are looking at a WordPress 3.0 blog.
I haven’t found any issues myself, but if you happen to find anything which isn’t working as expected, please use the contact form to let me know about it.
I’ve just had a play with a new Google feature whereby you can upload any image of choice to be used as the background on the search engine’s page. I like what I see but I am sure that it won’t last for long. It severely slows the page load time. I’ll give it a few more hours. Click the thumbnail for a larger version of my test with one of my own photos.
Note that the image in the popup might be blurred. If it is, you can right click on it, select “View Image” and check that your zoom level is 100% on it.
Inspired by my recent VPS nightmare with VAServ and by a write-up of Backupify – your ultimate backup solution for the cloud, I decided to write about a great service that I’ve recently begun using called Dropbox.
There is a whole array of free online storage providers out there and I’ve known this for years. I’ve even tried a couple in the past but none of them either worked very well or had basic features missing rendering them quite useless. My immediate need however was for a service which would run on a Linux terminal, without a GUI. It was in fact on another service’s comparison chart that Dropbox was listed as the only one to provide this. If anyone knows of any others, please share.
I signed up for it and within minutes I had registered my VPS with it and dropped my backup files into its folder within the VPS. Seconds later the backup appeared in the web interface. I just had to put it to further test and so installed the daemon in my laptop’s Fedora Core 12 and then on Windows XP running in a VirtualBox machine within it. Sure enough, everything synced down beautifully and I even got some decent looking notification pop-ups (which can be disabled) of the activity. Removing a file/folder worked surprisingly well too, I deleted a test file on the terminal of the VPS and the other two clients simultaneously deleted the file and displayed their notifications.
There’s quite a growing list of features of which I will just outline the one’s I like, for the full list, be sure to check out the website.
- Subscribe to an RSS feed of the activity on your files. Useful for monitoring normal activity in your favourite reader rather than logging in to the website to review logs.
- Ability to share folders with other specific Dropbox users – it feels like having a shared hard disk plugged in for each of your friends.
- 2GB storage space for Free, expandable to 3GB if you can refer 4 people who will eventually use the service (not just sign up).
- 50GB storage with the first paid plan at just $9.99/month.
- 2+ million users and an active blog, twitter and facebook presence from the team behind it.
- Clients for any OS you can imagine, including the iPhone!
- Awarded Crunchies Best Internet Application of 2009.
- A really cool “Votebox” section for logged in members where they can a. Vote on features that they would like to see implemented the most and b. See what the team is currently working on. You get 6 votes per month which you can distribute however you want. I for example, used all 6 of mine on “Selective Sync – Ability to choose which files/folders in my Dropbox get sync’d to which computers or the web.” as I have no need for the non VPS backup related stuff to be synced to the VPS.
- A “Public Folder”. Upload a file, get a link to it from the web interface and send it anyone regardless if they have an account.
- A “Pictures Folders” which turns into a somewhat basic but useful Gallery for browsing.
And a word of warning…
Although all communications between your clients and their server are made through SSL and everything they put on the Amazon S3 cloud is encrypted by AES-256, you should *never* put any sensitive data on to these services. I do, but I highly encrypt that data. This service does not limit you to certain filetypes so you can put whatever you want on it.
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