Website Analytics

December 9 2010 by Joshua Rasnier in SEO |No Comments

A key aspect that is often overlooked in Search Engine Optimization is the analysing of your website statistics and/or data. To better understand what you need to change or keep in perspective of your SEO goals.

Often people just believe the point of SEO is to get the best ranking, best links and best amount of traffic. But I’m here to tell you that this is a waste of time if you do not look at your traffic and properly analyze what the user is actually doing once they are at your site.

You could have millions of unique visitor traffic but if this traffic finds that your site is not what they expect or could not find the information that they wanted. Then the traffic is pointless and all your are doing is wasting bandwidth.

This is where having tools such as Google Analytics comes into play and helps you analyse your traffic and better understand what the traffic is doing. To basically get into the mind of the user.

Some aspects which people should be taking a more thorough look into, Continue reading »

Blogging and Pyramid Schemes

December 6 2010 by Joshua Rasnier in Blogging |No Comments

Have you ever had one of these dreaded pyramid schemes thrown at you and all that is going through your head is ‘What excuse can I use?’ and ‘I wish I had a gun right now’.

Well I had one today at my parents house from one of there friends. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and I tried every excuse I could try to get out of it. Sadly my mother didn’t get the hints that I wanted to escape.

So during this long presentation, these two questions stuck with me,

  • Why work for yourself when others can work for you?
  • Do you like working for little to no return?

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New Categories

December 5 2010 by Joshua Rasnier in Blogging |No Comments

Over the next couple of days, you will start noticing new categories appearing as I write up new posts. These will be outside of the Linux/Unix realm and will cover a range of interesting topics.

What made me come to this decision is that I started questioning myself on whether this was really a personal blog or just dedicated to Linux/Unix. If It was going to be just about the linux? What is so personal about it? So I decided to have a wider range of interests that I am interested in. So that no longer will there just be post after post of Linux/Unix topics. But will also include things such as food, blogging and even opinion on news.

So I hope you enjoy the ride and keep reading on.

Howto: Install New Yum Repositories in Fedora/Redhat

November 29 2010 by Joshua Rasnier in Linux and Unix |No Comments

Please note the below also works for Centos.Redhat Logo

There are a acouple of ways of adding repositories in Fedora/Red Hat. All repositories are stored in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory in Fedora/Redhat.
For well known repositories it is best and more simpler to install a .rpm package to add the repositories to your system. Such as below, which will add the livna-release repositories to your system. You would substitute the URL with one you have found on the internet.

rpm -Uvh http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm

For repositories that need to be installed manually it is a little bit different we have to create a Continue reading »

What are repositories?

November 29 2010 by Joshua Rasnier in Linux and Unix |1 Comment

If your new to Linux you would of most probably heard of the word ‘Repositories’ and wondered what exactly are ‘Repositories’. Taken from the singular word of ‘Repository’ meaning a place where things may be put for safekeeping. Repositories is the archive storage of software.

Linux and the Open Source community uses repositories to allow software to be found much easier and kept central. So that users know where to come back or know where to download an updated version. Imagine if you had to go looking for a particular piece of software in different locations, each time a new update for that software came out. It’s just painful even thinking about it.

It’s also used as a way of safe guarding software. Because the software are generally open source. It is safe to presume that there could be lots of different versions, going around the internet of a particular software. Some versions which may be unsafe to use or used to harm your system.

So in a way respositories is used by you, the user to have a safe and trusted place to find software for your system.

Just note that you will most probably find the name of repositiories are named after the package manager used. Such as Fedora/Redhat being called ‘Yum Repositories’ being for the repositories that work with the package manger Yum. Ubuntu being ‘Apt Repositories’ for those repositories used for package manager Apt. Since you can’t use Apt packages on Yum and vice versa.

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