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3 July 2006 Stewart

Blocking WebReaper (web crawler / web spider) using robots.txt

Looking through my web access logs for my Penguin Tutor (Linux Tutorials / Certification information) web site, I saw a

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2 July 2006 Stewart

New Linux Install – Fedora FC5

I’ve just installed Fedora on my home desktop machine. The Fedora version I used is called Fedora Core 5 (often

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30 June 2006 Stewart

Tourism: Howarth and Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, with a baby

It’s been a while since I went to Howarth and onto the steam train on the Keighley and Worth Valley

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27 June 2006 Stewart

Perl/Tk: Creating an Autocue for use in the Theatre

I have already provided some computer animation and autocue for a couple of theatre productions, which was done using Macromedia

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ComputersLinux
26 June 2006 Stewart

Which Linux Distro should I use?

This is also provided as part of a Penguin Tutor, Tutorial Document, on Linux Distros One of the first questions

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25 June 2006 Stewart

Book / DVD Film Review: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Book Review: Title: Oliver Twist Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Date: Original Edition around 1839, Penguin Books 1994

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24 June 2006 Stewart

Tourism: Skegness Natureland Seal Sanctuary

The Skegness Natureland Seal Sanctuary is on the North Parade near the SunCastle and bowling greens. There are a small

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23 June 2006 Stewart

Short outage for PenguinTutor.com – suspect UPS failure

There was a brief outage on my PenguinTutor Linux Web Site earlier today. I believe the outage was for less

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20 June 2006 Stewart

Tourism: Mablethorpe Seal Sanctuary

The Seal Sanctuary at Mablethorpe is located at North End, on Quebec Road opposite the Mablethorpe Haven Golden Sands Caravan

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ComputersLinux
19 June 2006 Stewart

Installing Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) with Nvidia Graphics Card – blank screen during install / Live CD

This post describes the process I went through to get Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) to run on my desktop computer with Nvidia graphics card.
Before running this when I tried using the Ubuntu Desktop (Live CD) I was stuck at a blank screen.

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