Year: 2010
IIS 6- Setting up a write only FTP directory
So, you want to set up a write only ftp directory on IIS? One where you can upload files, but not list them? Easy…
Read More »WordPress Super Cache plugin – Performance Benchmarking
I’ve been doing some performance tests on WordPress to see how much of a difference the WordPress Super Cache plugin made. It turns out that the plugin makes a huge difference.
Read More »WordPress not sending emails on ubuntu – nrcpts=0
So, you’re using sendmail to try and send emails from php/wordpress and it’s not working? Are your mail logs (/var/log/mail.log) showing nrcpts=0 ?? Make sure the sendmail_path in your php.ini file (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini) is set up correctly. It should…
Read More »WordPress, Permalinks and 404 errors
This page has the permalink /2010/04/wordpress-permalinks-and-404-errors But internally its default URL is /?p=1495. Permalinks help people see the topic of a page before it’s visited and generally mean that search engines will rank them higher too. OK, so…
Read More »Bear with me while I change servers
I’ve taken the plunge, and this time I’m not doing it by halves. I’m moving from my Windows Server 2003 physical co-located server to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) running Linux. All of the websites have been transferred…
Read More »DateTimeUTC – Version 1.1
I’ve been using DateTimeUTC for quite some time in batch files to get a nicely formatted date. This is the first major revision of DateTimeUTC where you can now add or subtract from the current date. This is…
Read More »Live Renders of Earth
I’ve recently come across the open source software Xplanet, which will render images of the globe with very realistic results. I render them in 512×256, 1024×512, 2048×1024 and 4096×2048 resolutions. The clouds information is obtained from weather satellites…
Read More »Enca binary compiled for 32 bit Windows
Enca is a (normally *nix) application which attempts to detect the text encoding of files. It’s only supplied as source which isn’t too helpful for windows users. Enca is particularly useful at guessing the encoding of text files…
Read More »Plugging in headphones doesn't mute speakers in Ubuntu
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 in early December, but yesterday was the first time I tried to use headphones since then. It turns out that plugging headphones into the headphones socket doesn’t automatically mute the speakers anymore. Here’s…
Read More »Ubuntu Software Centre – Not available in the current data
If you get the error “Not available in the current data” in the Ubuntu Software Centre, try opening a Terminal and running this: sudo apt-get update Update: This should also fix the error “Not available for your hardware…
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