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Wikis and the False Promise of Documentation

posted August 20th, 2009 @ 23:57:18

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In order to offset the increased monthly costs of my new phone, I recently decided to migrate one of my two dedicated servers to a VPS. After mulling over bargain basement offerings and some major ones, I decided on linode. I figured that most of the services I run on my weaker dedicated server (mail & webmail, DNS, etc) would live as happily on a $20/month VPS as they would on a $65/month dedicated server, and although I've had a long time to start the switch, I commenced last night (with 10 days remaining) by moving my wiki and my dev site.

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Good Presentations in Linux

posted August 5th, 2009 @ 00:21:37

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Been looking at ways to write attractive presentations half-way semantically in Linux. The "semantically" there is important; I want things to just generally look alright without having to agonize over bullet style. Two things sort of led me to S5: the sorry, sorry state of affairs of creating presentations in Linux, and Ian Bicking using S5. These are somewhat related.

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