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I had a lot of eBooks on linux which helps people to learn and use linux. I wanted to share them so that it helps them to learn. So compiled them and hosted in googlepages. Have a look at it!

teachmelinux.googlepages.com

A large spy satellite is out of control and could crash to Earth in the next few weeks, a US government official has warned.

The satellite could land anywhere on the planet and may contain hazardous materials, the unnamed source told the AP news wire.
The satellite is the size of a small bus

It is understood that American politicians and world leaders are being kept abreast of the situation.

In response to the reports Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said: “Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation.

“Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly. We are looking at potential options to mitigate any possible damage this satellite may cause.”

He refused to discuss specifics, such as whether the satellite might be destroyed with a missile. But such a move is considered unlikely by experts as it would create a rain of debris which could cause more widespread damage.

While the US government is yet to release any information about the craft, John Pike of the defence research group GlobalSecurity.org said that it is most likely a photo-reconnaissance satellite, weighing as much as 20,000lb (9,000kg) and the size of a bus.

It is believed to contain hydrazine, a common rocket fuel, which is hazardous to humans.

This would not be the first time a large man-made satellite has de-powered and crashed uncontrollably into the atmosphere. The largest was in 1979, when Skylab, a 78-ton abandoned space station, lost control and fell from orbit.

It fell apart on re-entry, with the debris crashing harmlessly into the Indian Ocean and across an uninhabited part of Western Australia.

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Picture without a frame is not a picture, its just an image. Adding borders to the images in your wordpress blog will enhance the look of your theme.

Not all the wordpress themes come with image borders by default. You need to add few lines of code to get the image border.

This tutor tells you on how to add a image border to the images in your wordpress theme. You can follow this tutorial only if your theme doesn’t come with default border for images.

To add the border, follow this steps:

1. Go to your wordpress Admin CP.
2. Click on Presentation and the select the theme for which you want to add image border.
3. Click on “Theme Editor”
4. Open “Stylesheet” or “style.css” whatever from the right hand list.
5. Now you must be able see the CSS codes.

Find this :

img {
border: none;
}

… and replace it with this:

img {
border:#cc9 1px solid;
padding:3px;
}
a img {
border-bottom: #b8860b 1px solid;
}

If it wont exist, you can simplty add the second code after “content” }

And click on “Update File”

Now you must be able to see a border around the images in your blog.

You can customize the border in the way you want. Here are few quick customization you can do:

1. To change the distance between the border and the image, increase or decrease the number in “padding”. For example, in the code above the padding is 3, you can increase it to 4, if you want more gapy between the image and the border.

2. You can have “Dashed” border style. To do this, replace “solid” to “dashed” in both the lines.

3. To change the color of the border line, you need to change the color code (HEX) value with the valid CSS/HTML color code.

For example, in the above code, the color code is “#b8860b”, which is light brown in color. If you want to have a black border line, you can change it to “#000000″

Click Here for a list of all the valid HTML and CSS Color codes.

And now finally your images will appear with a border and looks like this:

This ends the tut and enjoy the PICTURE

Hi!

I just created a sub-domain for HTML Color Codes. HTML Colors codes can be used to assign colors to different webpage and web elements.

I’ve listed down the HTML Color codes in the table as well as there is a Photoshop like color palette. You can move the circle over the paletter and get the required HTML code. Or you can also paste the HTML Color code in the “#” text box to see which color it is.

The photoshop-like palette looks like this and it is easy to use:

Visit htmlcolors.themebin.com to get the html color codes.

Hope you find this thing useful. All the sources and credits have been listed in the site and in the source.

Introduction

Official Google Checkout Logo

Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Users store their credit or debit card and shipping information in their Google Account, so that they can purchase at participating stores at the click of a button. Google Checkout also offers fraud protection, as well a unified page for tracking purchases and their status.

Google Checkout is free for merchants until February 1, 2008. After that date Google charges merchants 2.0% plus $0.20 per transaction (1.5% + £0.15 for UK merchants). Also after this date, merchants who have an AdWords account will not be charged fees on monthly transactions totaling less than ten times their monthly AdWords expenditure.

Prior to launch there had been early speculation that Google was building a product to compete with PayPal. However, the scope of Google Checkout is focused on enabling one-time payments to be made from a purchaser to a merchant. Unlike Paypal, Google Checkout does not require the purchaser to create an account, does not permit the use of stored funds, nor allows payments from person to person.

eBay (which owns PayPal) raised some controversy when it added Google Checkout to its banned payment methods list, thus preventing eBay users from using Google Checkout.

Google Checkout service was first made available in the United States on June 28, 2006. The service later became available in the UK on April 13, 2007.

Features and Advantages: 

Increase sales and pay nothing for credit card processing

Google Checkout is a fast, convenient checkout process that brings you more customers and allows them to buy from you with a single login — and you can process their orders and charge their credit or debit cards for free.

• Increase sales.
  Google Checkout users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Google Checkout badge and convert 40% more than shoppers that have not used Checkout in the past.
• Process sales for free.
  Get free credit card processing until 2008 and pay no monthly, setup or gateway fees
• Protect yourself from fraud.
  Checkout’s Payment Guarantee protects 98% of Checkout orders on average – when an order is guaranteed, you get paid even if it results in a chargeback.

Google Checkout Site: checkout.google.com

Google Checkout Blog: googlecheckout.blogspot.com

Google Checkout Tour: checkout.google.com/buyer/tour.html

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Source: Compiled from different sources

Sources: Wikipedia | Google Checkout