Monthly Archives: April 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 has Arrived

I looked on the Ubuntu site this morning around 10 am, and saw version 9.10 was still the version du jour.  I knew that Lucid Lynx was due out today, and was wondering if somehow the date had been moved, … Continue reading

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Image Formats for the Web – Raster Graphics

.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, and .svg are the graphic image formats used as standards on the Internet. What do all these formats do, and what’s the difference? Every time I go looking for what formats does what, and when you … Continue reading

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Capitalize the first letter of a paragraph with CSS

Books twenty or thirty year ago use to have the first letter of a chapter set off differently than the rest of the lettering in the chapter.  It was a single letter with flowery font that was much larger than … Continue reading

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Git for Windows, Changing Directories, part 2

It seems like my first posting on changing directories inside of Git Bash on Windows has some problems.  I’d like to explore this a little more by going through some other choices. If you change your Windows Home directory as … Continue reading

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Git Config Files

Git distributed version control software runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.  It is the fastest open source version control software, and is used to keep historical track of  some very large projects, like the Linux operating system itself, for example. … Continue reading

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