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how to hack a web or blog

I want to create my own blog and website — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerrymain (talk • contribs) 14:59, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

You don't need to "hack" to make a blog and website. Why not start with something like WordPress.com or Blogger or LiveJournal and see where that takes you? --Mr.98 (talk) 15:30, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

On the other hand if you're wanting to do this as a programming experiment, then "hacking" in the old fashioned sense of putting together code rapidly might be the right word, and the tools 98 mentions aren't going to work for you. Then it becomes a matter of how "deep" you want to go. Anywhere from using customizable blog software, to using a LAMP_(software_bundle) server to build a new blog application, to writing your own webserver. It's not clear where on that scale of possibilities you'd want. i kan reed (talk) 18:43, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

You might also consider Google sites but as ikanreed points out we need to know a little more info to make a better recommendation--rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 20:01, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

I thought google sites was closed a couple years ago... i kan reed (talk) 20:08, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

'Google Page Creator' AKA 'Google Pages' was closed, but Google sites is still going strong--rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 20:11, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Sync program that works between Win 7 and XP and works with networked drives

Can anyone recommend a program which I can use to sync files between my personal laptop and desktop and my work computer which uses networked drives (apparently networked drives are a problem for many sync softwares)? --129.215.47.59 (talk) 15:40, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

FastCopy AvrillirvA (talk) 15:45, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

You might consider Delta Copy, a rsync implementation on Windows. From a little bit of preliminary searching it looks like SMB {\\HOST....) connections should be fine. But I must ask, if both drives are networked, why must you sync them? Why not just point both to the same drive, i.e. one or the other? You also might consider an external RAID array or other SMB/NFS filesharing solution, depending.--rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 20:05, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Another option is AJC Sync. It's US$30. I know that works with networked drives. Or you can try the free SyncToy, which has less features than AJC. - Akamad (talk) 03:38, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Why not just use Windows Offline Files? --Phil Holmes (talk) 08:27, 3 June 2011 (UTC)