Why we cite the work of others and what constitutes a good referencing source?
The following short post contemplates some of the often asked questions connected with referencing and discusses the importance of referencing in general.
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The best Canadian Tire items to build your first Geocache
It’s easy to create your first geocache and all you need can be found in your local Canadian Tire shop. [Read more…]
SpeedX Leopard – New Photos
These are the new photos of SpeedX Leopard. Enjoy… if you have any new ones, please post the link to a comment section below, I’ll add them in. [Read more…]
How to factory recover rooted phone/tablet with encrypted storage?
This procedure is fairly easy, but not obvious to many and so I wanted to capture the steps. [Read more…]
How to limit the upload speed for Google Drive sync?
A very common issue among Google Drive users is that there is no way to limit upload speed of Google Drive syncing process. Problem typically manifests by rendering user’s Internet connection unusable, due to sync process taking 100% of the upload bandwidth. In such case you’ll observe that you cannot browse the Internet (or it’s extremely slow), even that your download bandwidth is fully available. Issue can be overlooked if you’re only uploading small amounts of data here and there, but if you’re uploading gigabytes of information, it can take days or weeks. Anyhow, there is a way to fix this problem and that is to limit the upload speed of Google Drive process. [Read more…]
Why I keep donating to Wikipedia?
Because my answer to these 3 simple questions remains the same year over year… [Read more…]
Happy 17th Birthday Google!
I had a feeling it was coming…. just checked WHOIS on Google.com domain and it was registered exactly 17 years ago, on 15 September 1997! [Read more…]
Groupsrv.com is closed!
After nearly 11 years, I’ve finally decided to pull the plug on Usenet archive: Groupsrv.com. [Read more…]
How to get a .COM domain from GoDaddy for just 99 cents
I am not sure how long this will last, but this is a very good deal still working as of September 2014. [Read more…]
Random Questions for Employee Spotlight interview!
It’s always hard to come up with good questions for employee spotlight interview. Following is the list I’ve compiled over time. [Read more…]
2013 – Top 3 manufacturers of desktop computer motherboards
As of 2013, following are the top 3 manufacturers of desktop computer motherboards. [Read more…]
Hacked Wikipedia Pages of Ivan Gašparovič (President of Slovakia) & Robert Fico (Prime Minister of Slovakia)
Slovak hackers? :) Perhaps… I was searching Google.com just a little while ago, when I decided to enter the name of Slovakia’s president ‘Ivan Gasparovic‘, in order to see if I can find president’s wikipedia page. I have to say, I wasn’t prepared to see this kind of results from Google, nor Wikipedia. See the screenshots below… [Read more…]
WordPress 3.5 After Update Error: Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writeable.
WordPress 3.5 changed the temp directory order to prefer the system’s pre-defined temp directory instead of attempting to write into wp-content. On some badly configured hosting systems, this temp directory may be defined, but not actually writeable. This causes the error message. [Read more…]
