Webmaster tools and WordPress

Hey guys back again! This is a really quick and short post. I’m gonna tell you how to add webmaster tools to your wordpress blog. As far as I know, this might have been a big headache for most of you who have sub-domains like me so this is a really simple way to add your wordpress blog to webmaster tools provided by most popular search engines, that is google, bing and yahoo.
This what you have to do, first go to your blogs dashboard then on the left sidebar scroll down to Tools and from there click on the Tools links and scroll down the page. And from there look for “Webmaster Tools Verification”. Ok now open a new tab on your browser or simply click on these links while pressing the Ctrl button

Google : https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Bing : http://www.bing.com/webmaster
Yahoo : https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Then you have to log in to those sites and from there add the url of your blog to the relevant fields and when you have to verify use the meta tags and copy paste those in the correct textboxes in your tools page of your blog then save the changes and verify your blog in those relevant sites (i.e. google, yahoo. bing)
and thats it you are good to go
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~~ Rusiru Boteju ~~

Removing older kernels from Ubuntu Karmic

Hey I’m back again! This time I think I should talk about the Grub a little bit, (if you are thinking that I’m gonna tell you how to remove grub 2 and install the previous one its better if you stop reading this). What I’m gonna tell you is “How to clean the usual Grub menu”.

When we do the updates, for an instance if we take ubuntu there are updates almost every week and among those there are kernel updates like every other week, so what basically happens is that, the grub menu will get filled up like the one in the image below

So how can we clean this mess?
First, you have to open a terminal and type,
uname -r
This will show you the current kernel you are using, (i.e. 2.6.31-20-generic for me) or remember the name of the kernel at the top of the menu, (for the above image its 2.6.27-11-generic). Now you have to go to System–> Administration –> Synaptic Package Manager. From there, in the Quick Search, type linux-image and this will enlist all the kernels that are available and also, the ones marked in green are the ones that are currently installed (here I’m gonna remove 2.6.31-19-generic). Right click on the one you want to remove and click on “Mark for removal”. Then again search for linux-headers and again mark for removal.

And finally Apply thats it !!

Warning!
Please remember to remove the ones you are not using only, and be careful to not to remove the current kernel that you are using because it’s possible to break ubuntu if you remove the wrong kernel.

The grub menu list will get updated automatically and you are free from old kernels.

I’ll meet you again with another post about the Grub till then
bye.

~~ Rusiru Boteju ~~