There's a company called Kintiskton LLC who either own or are owned by Mark Manager and they provide a trademark protection service. They have a spider that crawls the web attempting to identify their customers' copyright material posted on sites other than their customers'. In principal I don't have...
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I use Google Maps a lot to investigate a place I'm going to or to get direction there. I've noticed that on Saturday mornings Google Maps often fails but when it doesn't it just runs real slow and I get this message: Still loading... Slow? Use the troubleshooting guide or basic HTML. My theory is that...
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I've heard about people doing AdWords/AdSense Arbitrage but I question if it's even possible. First of all, what is arbitrage? The classic definition of arbitrage has someone, usually a trader in the stock markets, buy and sell a financial instrument at exactly the same time such that there is zero risk...
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I have 2 computers attached to a Gigabit switch and both these computers have NICs that support 1 GBPS speed. However, I noticed that transferring files between them was slow so when I inspected the speeds I saw that one of them was operating at 100MBPS and the other at 1GBPS. At first I went into the...
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Do you have 2 or more PC's on your desk that each have their own keyboard and mouse? Do you want to control it all from one keyboard and mouse without using a KVM and have the mouse float from one monitor to the next and allow copy and paste between them? Then Mouse without Borders is for you: http:...
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This .Net error typically occurs when the underlying collection is modified during enumeration. For example if you remove items from the collection while enumerating the collection. It can also happen when you're accessing a collection while adding to the collection. See if you can see the bug in the...
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If you need to create a composite key (for a dictionary for example) where the natural key could come from multiple sources a standard technique is to prepend the source to the natural key to ensure that it is unique. However, this can still cause duplicate keys so to solve this problem you should always...
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Notes for self on how to do this. Start Local Group Policy Editor. From start menu type gpedit.msc and hit enter. Navigate the left pane: User Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Explorer On right hand side find: Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.dg files...
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I changed a bunch of the URL's on a site that's in the Alexa to 100,000 - i.e. a moderately busy site that the Google bot visits every day. The old URL's now do a 301 redirected to the new structure. At the time that I did the switch over and every day for the next 60 days I took a snapshot of how many...
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Tony Gentilcore has just written a good post on How a web page loads and why blocking needs to take place when scripts and CSS load. I'm hoping that he's going to follow this up with a post on the SPDY protocol which looks pretty interesting for a faster web. Google say that SPDY is an experiment with...
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