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Jul 6, 2014 by
@dcodernz
Jekyll Installation
Jekyll is the software I’m using for this blog. So, just as a reminder for myself and people who want to try it out, I thought I would document here, how to install it. ...
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Jun 24, 2014 by
@dcodernz
Howto Make Money With Open Source
Bounty Source
Open Source is great. You can use high quality software that you can trust and all that for free. However, Open Source developers have to live as well. So, I was researching how one can make money by improving Open Source Software. Turns out, there are ways to do that. ... -
Jun 12, 2014 by
@dcodernz
Convert Video Files with avconv
It's always frustrating to find out how to convert video files from one format to another or resize your videos that you want to upload to youtube at maximum quality but minimal file size. ...
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May 27, 2014 by
@dcodernz
Install PostGIS on Ubuntu 14.04
I ran into this error after installing just the package postgis on Ubuntu 14.04:
ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/share/postgres/9.1/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory
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May 11, 2014 by
@dcodernz
Ubuntu 14.04 - Asus N13 Wireless USB Adapter Problems Howto
It's been a long time since I last blogged. But nevertheless, here a guide on how to install the Asus N13 Wireless USB Adapter. This may also apply to other WLAN adapters that use the rt2800usb kernel module. ...
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. – Unknown
You are not your resume, you are your work. – Seth Godin
Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. – Henry Thoreau
One finds limits by pushing them. – Herbert Simon
If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. – James Goldsmith
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. – Seth Godin
Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn
Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Sr. Thomas Watson
Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try. – Unknown
The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson
We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy. – Dr. Henry Link
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want. – Seth Godin
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith
Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Northcote Parkinson/Parkinson’s Law.
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey
Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. – Seth Godin
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Unknown
My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford
For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly
Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day. – Gary Vaynerchuck
Victory goes to the player who makes the next–to–last mistake. – Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump
Surviving a failure gives you more self–confidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth
The only way around is through. – Robert Frost
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky
Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules. – Seth Godin
To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities. – Seth Godin
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller
Business in a combination of War and sport. – Andre Maurois
To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. – Oscar Wilde
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. – Aristotle
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
There is no security on the earth, there is only opportunity. – General Douglas MacArthur
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. – Unknown
Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz
For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake. – Unknown
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. – John Ciardi
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. – Howard Aiken
It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Ren Mulford Jr.
A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. – Unknown
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. – Bette Midler
Your time is precious, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett
Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy. – Jim Rohn
The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker. – Seth Godin
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters. – Seth Godin
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place. – Orison Swett Marden
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille
People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. – Seth Godin
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. – Seth Godin
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover. – Ben Franklin
I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid – Einstein
Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen
Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it. – Chinese Proverb
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. – J. Paul Getty
A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time. – Unknown
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan
If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin
If it really was a no–brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no–brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic
Get busy living or get busy dying. – from the “The Shawshank Redemption”
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – Denis Waitley
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. – Zig Ziglar
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. – Unknown
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields
Are you a serial idea–starting person? The goal is to be an idea–shipping person. – Seth Godin
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. – Lilly Tomlin
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc
Long–range planning works best in the short term. – Doug Evelyn
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety–nine percent perspiration. – Thomas A. Edison