If you’re running Ubuntu with dual monitors and want an additional taskbar on your secondary monitor, here’s how you can do it.
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Suppose you’re working on your local machine. You’re running Apache/PHP or an all-on-one package like XAMPP. You have a bunch of websites, but you don’t want to store them all under Apache’s webroot. Maybe some of your websites use PHP and you want to test them locally in your browser.

Here’s how to map a directory so you can access it via Apache without it being in the webroot.
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Here’s a little reminder for myself on how I fixed the “sqlite3.dll missing” error message I was getting while setting up a new Ruby on Rails environment.
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If you can’t log in to the Citi Cards website in Opera, here are a couple of ways to fix that…
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Here’s how to fix “find as you type” and “find in page” in the new version of Opera (10.50).
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Here’s how I made a secret storage space in an electrical box.
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This is a reminder for myself for when I want to use a migration to create test data for the development environment only.
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