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Jan
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Decided i’d see what happens if you lose your password and email address but want your facebook back. 
What do you think? 

Decided i’d see what happens if you lose your password and email address but want your facebook back. 

What do you think? 

Jan
16th
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iWallet Payments here sooner than you think

Now we have a hint: Another new Apple patent suggests an iPhone (or iPad, etc) could get a second SIM tray-like port on one side, into which you’d slip the little golden chip segment from a modern credit card. The neatness of this idea is impressive: All the credit card makers need do is slightly modify their existing cards so you could pop-out the chip in the same way you do when you get a new cell phone SIM card delivered (which does come in a credit card-shaped plastic carrier, if you remember). All the security and ID and—more importantly—control over card numbers and distribution to customers—would remain with the card issuer, disrupting their business model less than other solutions would.

Jan
13th
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Testing copy with google adwords

I was inspired by Tim Ferris’ technique for testing potential titles for his new book using google adwords. 

He took 6 prospective titles that everyone could live with: including ‘Broadband and White Sand’, ‘Millionaire Chameleon’ and ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ and developed a Google Adwords campaign for each. He bid on keywords related to the book’s content including ‘401k’ and ‘language learning’: when those keywords formed part of someone’s search on Google the prospective title popped up as a headline and the advertisement text would be the subtitle. Ferriss was interested to see which of the sponsored links would be clicked on most, knowing that he needed his title to compete with over 200,000 books published in the US each year. At the end of the week, for less than $200 he knew that “The 4-Hour Workweek” had the best click-through rate by far and he went with that title.

His experimentation didn’t stop there, he decided to test various covers by printing them on high quality paper and placing them on existing similar sized books in the new non-fiction rack at Borders, Palo Alto. He sat with a coffee and observed, learning which cover really was most appealing.”

Take away

I am beginning to wonder if all our conversion buttons, product names and key phrases should be tested using adwords before their deployment to our pages. 

Anyone else know of ƒunctional ways of using adwords to test phraseology

Dec
29th
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How to achieve your new years resolutions.

Based on my research this year here is my advice:

1. Do not say them to anyone. Research shows that the effect of your brain mistaking the saying for the doing is stronger than the social obligation created by announcing your plans.

2. Start as soon as you come up with your ideas as any cognitive dissonance you exhibit now will carry into the new year and foil your positive habit building efforts.

3. Don’t focus on goals!! Focus on habits for habits lead to the achievement of goals.

4. Remind yourself that we are fundamentally motivated by curiosity, challenge and passion. Money, looking sexy and being powerful won’t successfully motivate you. They decend from having the right balance of the above.

Nov
29th
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Ubuntu boot time scripts with etc/init.d

I wanted to collect some of my learnings on how ubuntu/debian manages scripts at boot time.

First, /etc/rcRUN-LEVEL.d/NNname is a series of directories that are symlinked to the /etc/init.d/name  actual boot script.

So, if you want a service or program to run at boot time first create the script at /etc/init.d/servicename and chmod it to be executable. You can find an example at        /etc/init.d/skeleton


Set the appropriate runlevels directly in the script. The defaults should work for most users.

then run sudo update-rc.d servicename defaults and the appropriate symlinks will be added for you. 

When you’re constructing your boot script, the LSB header tells update-rc.d what runlevels and what ORDER to run your daemons in. For our use which will be a onetime execution before self-destruction on the first boot of a vm template we want all other services to start first so we will add a ” Required-Start $all “ 

Oct
28th
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How to add disk space to a ubuntu machine with lvm

Add the additional physical disk 

sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb

sudo vgextend ubuntu /dev/sdb

sudo lvextend /dev/ubuntu/root

sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu/root

Sep
13th
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How to Fix error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Having an error ./compx: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when trying to run a 32 bit program on a 64 bit Ubuntu machine?

If so do 

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gcc-2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-24_i386.deb

 dpkg —extract libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-24_i386.deb /tmp/libstdc

cd /tmp/libstdc

sudo mv /tmp/libstdc/usr/lib/* /usr/lib32/

Apr
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Mar
7th
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There is nothing wrong with just saying look here is how I do it and of you don’t like it…shop elsewhere.

Amongst a myriad of choices we find the depravity of focus.

There is nothing wrong with just saying look here is how I do it and of you don’t like it…shop elsewhere.

Amongst a myriad of choices we find the depravity of focus.

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