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Welcome back to part 3 of my foray into the Ubuntu/Linux system. To recap:...

To briefly recapitulate, here are the relevant details: I installed Ubuntu alongside Vista on my laptop and the first things I noticed were:
1) My screen resolution was detected as "1440 by 900" which was not the case with my Ubuntu virtual machine. It was 'stuck' at 800 by 600 and this was a welcome change. :)
2) My HP bluetooth laser mouse was detected without problems and when I found out about the HP Linux Image and Printing Toolbox, my life was complete. :D What? I'm a nerd. I use HP printers and having their extended capabilities possible ...

Well, well. It has been a very interesting week, to say the least, for me. On Monday, I got this bee in my bonnet that I would like to give the Linux operating system a really good shake. Earlier this month, I had installed Ubuntu "Intrepid Ibex" on my 64-bit Vista laptop via Virtual PC 2007. I fell in love with the operating system, but there were niggling problems like my screen resolution and speed that truly prevented me from observing how powerful this system was. So, I decided to dive into the world of dual-booting. It ...

I confess to being an ignoramus when it comes to tracking and statistics. All I've been content to do (since now) has been add the code to my pages and hit "Publish". Well, if I'm going to earn any sort of passive income from my online endeavors, it is imperative that I understand that there needs to be a method to my 'madness', so to speak. What I really mean is that there needs to be: (i) a system in place for analyzing my statistics in order to optimize the sites either for better content, ad placement, et cetera. Currently, I've got code from Google Analytics, StatCounter and Woopra installed on both of my sites (fadingwhispers.org and janetalkstech.com). I've got a couple of other sites that aren't being actively developed, but for the sake of brevity, I'll use the two main sites as examples.

Of the three traffic analysis tools, I find Statcounter is the friendliest to use, but it is limited to 500 'entries' so older data gets flushed. However, they do provide logs which, in my case, are somewhat useless because that a LOT of data to wade through.

Woopra is the newer kid on the block that I recently installed on both sites. The jury is still out on Woopra, but thus far, I've been thoroughly impressed with the accompanying Woopra desktop client which can show you live data on visitors! My site does not have that much traffic yet, but that is really icing on the cake. Check out the main dashboard for Woopra: Read More »