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Encryption type Matters with Deep Packet Inspection – solved

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I was helping a client yesterday set up a VPN tunnel only to have it constantly disconnected.  The client was located outside of the country.  For the sake of avoiding throttling and saving on CPU, we were using the Blowfish cipher and it kept on getting disconnected. I found this rather strange as I’ve never…

Database Backed Web Applications Advice

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Here’s the scenario.  You’ve got a dedicated server running windows in a server farm (generic dedicated server provider).  You have mysql + asp or php app running all on the same server.  Raid 1 mirroring and 2 GB of ram. You have to have windows, because your application supports it.  Sound Familiar?  It’s a problem…

International Text solutions – A solution

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

The thing that kills me more than anything is the International Texting thing today.  You get charged upwards of .50 to text international. So here’s the solution for all of you people out there.  Skype. Just install skype and register your cell phone number to it.  (requires validation, but worth it).  When you need to…

Typing a Search Term in the Firefox Address bar stops working [Solved]

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Every once in a while, while it doesn’t happen much, a piece of software breaks our browser. (OK.. It happens more than less for many people). Here’s the solution: 1. In the address bar, type about:config 2. You will receive a warning about modifying these setting could cause issues.  Just accept it. 3.You will see…

How Content Distribution Networks(CDN) Work and How they Benefit You

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) are simply a network of servers located all over the world that will distribute your content faster, more reliably, and provide redundancy to your website or webhost. There are many benefits to having a CDN.  The most important one is the ability to lower your server load and provide the customer…

When your Windows Install is completely broken [solution]

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Percy Kwong

It happens to all of us at one time or another.  Our Windows installation or PC starts giving us errors for no apparent reason.  Things break, applications don’t work, We go to uninstall a program and the uninstaller is completely broken.  The problem is it leaves a huge mess in your registry, filesystem, as well…

What would you like to see me write about?

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Let me know!  I’ll do my best to accomodate!  There are so many ideas I have, but I want to serve my audience!

How to Make Your WordPress Blog Available in 43 Languages [Solved]

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Some of you may have noticed that recently, this blog has a translate option to other languages.  It’s really quite simple.  Here’s how to do it. Your WordPress Blog should have a text widget. Simply, insert the following code into it and put the widget in your sidebar. <div id=”google_translate_element”></div><script> function googleTranslateElementInit() {   new…

Fixing Google’s messy index causing 404s due to a “?” in my urls.

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Percy Kwong

As of late, I noticed a problem that just appeared and it wouldn’t go away.  It just started showing up and causing tons of 404s on my site.  Now that’s not good.  The problem was simply the following: I would have a link on my site.  Let’s say the real URL is: http://swimminginthought.com/estore For some…

Creating PDF Files without having to purchase anything.

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Percy Kwong

We all have the need to create pdf files at one time or another.  I used to use pdfcreator from sourceforge, but it seems as of the latest version, they’ve sold out. So this led me on a search for a new solution.  The solution is from bullzip.com and works really quite well. I would…

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