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Episode 118 - Speed Up Your Web Site |
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Recorded Live December 22, 2009.
- Feature: Speed up your web site substantially—with no cost and no upgrades to your hosting service.
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Topics Covered: - The weather.
- Greetings to our first-time viewers.
- Viewer Comment: I'm watching on the 32-bit Flash tonight, and it works.
- Viewer Comment: I highly recommend PostBooks as an alternative to Quickbooks.
- Viewer Question: Is there an easy way to tell when a web page was updated or created?
- Using the Web Developer add-on for Firefox to find CSS information and page information about a web site.
- Category5 Newsroom: Dell promotes Ubuntu Linux and Open Source as an alternative to Windows.
- Category5 Newsroom: Mark Shuttleworth is stepping down as the CEO of Canonical Ltd.
- Viewer Comment: Another excellent add-on for Firefox is Firebug.
- Viewer Comment: If you've used WUBI to install Ubuntu and try to update it, it will not work. Follow these steps to update your Grub2 bootloader.
- Viewer Question: Can you help me learn to use some of the more advanced features of unRAID? Eg. how do I remote into my unRAID server? How do I run a checksum on a file on the server? How do I install unMenu on my unRAID server? How do I utilize the unRAID forums effectively?
- Using telnet to remote in to your unRAID server's filesystem.
- Conducting an md5sum check on your files on the unRAID server.
- Accessing your unRAID flash drive.
- Installing unMenu on your unRAID server.
- I found a web page that allows a right click for MD5 checks in Nautilus. (web page not provided)
- Viewer Question: I know I can encrypt an entire hard drive in Ubuntu; but how do I encrypt just a few files, or a folder?
- Creating a PGP encryption/decryption key in Ubuntu Linux.
- Encrypting a single file in Ubuntu.
- Feature: Speeding up your web site for free without having to upgrade your server.
- Using SmartOptimizer on your web site to minify, compress and cache your site's contents on the fly.
- Obtaining, extracting and installing SmartOptimizer on your web site.
- Viewer Comment: You could give GWT a try.
- Using FileZilla client to upload SmartOptimizer to my server.
- What to do if SmartOptimizer gives an error that it is unable to write to your cache folder.
- Viewer Comment: Another good way to speed up performance is to use a content distribution network!
- Viewer Comment: I want free web hosting.
- Viewer Question: How do I configure my router to allow me to access my computer using VNC while I'm on the road?
- Viewer Comment: I'm loving Ubuntu One, but really looking forward to using the PogoPlug 2 for offsite backups!
- Viewer Question: When I create a folder in nautilus, it is not accessible via terminal. So to get around it, I create a new folder in terminal and copy files one at a time. Is there a way to copy multiple files at once?
- Using the Linux terminal to copy files recursively from one directory to another.
- Christy won't be with us next week.
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