I recently uploaded a static site to Amazon S3. Here is my invoice of the costs: Let me explain these AWS transfer cost and maybe you can save […]
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Single Modifier Press
Here’s how I invented the single modifier keypress that has found it’s way into some Apple products.
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wp clean up plugin
This plugin a beauty for trimming a bloated akismet database from wordpress. See here my kismet has over 600,000 entries of spam – bloating my wordpress table and […]
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migrate time machine backup to new machine
A complicated problem. When you buy a new Apple computer the Time machine backup resets and you lose your backups. This person writes about it better than I could. […]
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Truth Allergy
For those of you interested in health issues, I’ve started a little blog here keeping tabs on controversial health issues.
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How to move all your messages to a new gmail account via your mac
Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your local computer. It uses the standard IMAP protocol but also takes […]
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How to secure wordpress
Make sure you have most up to date wordpress change database prefix from wp_ to something else (WSD Security plugin will do this) change default admin username from […]
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How to rebuild a failed Disc in a Pegasus promise Raid array
Remove the failed disk and put in a new formatted disk. It will say ‘Pass Through’ Click on the drive and change from ‘Pass Thru’ to ‘Unconfigured’ […]
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Huge commentmeta file in wordpress database.
A surprising email: It has come to our attention that your site is using an excessive amount of MySQL resources on your Bluehost account. So some looking into […]
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how to move wordpress site to new url on the same server.
1. Setup new directory and copy across all old files. 2. Edit functions.php of old site. Add these two lines to the file, immediately after the initial “<?php” […]
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Permanent redirect for moving a website
I just closed down 7.barracks.cl and moved all the articles to wayneconnor.com 1. EXPORT all articles from 7.barracks.cl using wordpress admin back end. 2. IMPORT them all to […]
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Be careful of wp-secure plugin
wp-secure plugin has an option to ‘secure your wp’content’ folder. I did this and look what happened to my traffic – it dropped from 6000 hits a day […]
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Website hosting – Bluehost/Layeredtech/Rackspace
My blue host server has become a sluggish lately. The CPU throttling is on more than not and sometimes the webpages take a long time to load or […]
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gephi great network mapping software for OSX lets…
gephi – great network mapping software for OSX, lets you visualise connections between people etc. http://gephi.org/
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rsync server backup
How to back up your web server via the terminal This will backup your entire remote server to your local Macintosh computer. rsync –recursive –verbose –archive –progress –stats […]