Making a programming Blog

First you need to set up what you want the site to look like. For code it is better to have blocks that are separated from the rest of the text

like this block here

This block can be created by using the following HTML/CSS code

<div style="border: 1px solid rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 2px; margin: 5px 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><tt>
code here
</tt></div>

The <tt> tag is used to make the text inside teletype making it look more like code. By changing the values inside style you can change how the box looks.

Next things are tabs, if you know anything about HTML, tabs and other white space are ignored so you cannot use tabs, what you can do is use div tags with left margins

so you can

do something like this
with multiple indented lines

To do this you use the code

<div style="margin-left: 25px;">
indented code here
</div>

The last thing you need to know is what do do if you are trying to display a tag like <tag> because HTML will think that it is a tag and not something that you want to display

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&lt; &gt; &amp; &nbsp; &quot; &reg; &copy;

less than greater than ampersand non breaking space double quote registered trade mark copyright

Setting a static IP address on Debian 5.0

To give debian a static IP address change the file

/etc/network/interfaces

Find the line that reads

iface eth0 inet dhcp

and change it to

iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.1.xxx
netmask 255.255.240.0
gateway 192.168.1.xxx

Where the IP addresses are whichever addresses you need to put in. If the computer was hooked up as DHCP and it connected to the server then the DNS server values are already set (they are contained in a different file) when you are done you can restart the network configurations but the cleanest way is just to restart the computer