Archive for April, 2010

Some strategies to boost your Alexa.com ranking

Many people use Alexa to know the ranking of a web. There are many pros and cons. But if your business is focused on the internet, you need to know much how Alexa works.

As far as I know, Alexa recorded a visit to a web site from which our Toolbar installed on browsers such as Firefox and IE. Suppose we open a web site using a browser without installing the Alexa toolbar, it will not be recorded by Alexa. But with a browser that has been Alexa Toolbar installed, then Alexa will be recorded.
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Changing Ubuntu Server Timezone by command line

When you install Ubuntu server distribution, you would got problem when choosing the time zone, especially for Indonesian time zone. Because I had install ubuntu server several times, but you can only choose US time.

So, the easiest way is trying to change the time zone after the installation process is completed. Here is that simple command


koro@kecapi:/etc$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
[sudo] password for koro:

Current default timezone: 'Asia/Jakarta'
Local time is now: Wed Apr 14 10:46:47 WIT 2010.
Universal Time is now: Wed Apr 14 03:46:47 UTC 2010.

koro@kecapi:/etc$ date
Wed Apr 14 10:52:47 WIT 2010

Do not forget to choose your time area according to your geographic region.

Understand software component

I’ve look the presentation file from Microsoft couple years ago, but when I try to know again about the topic, I didn’t at what laptop I put.

So I browse to research.microsoft.com ang got this amazing understanding on Reusable software component.
I give you the link here. Of course, this will help me too if I lost the file again.

Just check this file.

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