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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…

Boosting Octane Yourself. I did the research, made it, and proved it.

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So I drive a car that requires 93 min. Octane.   Me, being the skeptic started thinking about Gasoline blends around the world.  I realized in my travels (and I am extremely well traveled), that pretty much every other country in the world has one grade of Gas vs. America and some parts of Europe and…

A very easy way to eliminate quite a bit of SPAM if you’re using Postfix and Spamassassin. [SOLVED]

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

SPAM is definitely a huge problem in our lives.  Here’s a real simple way to eliminate spam.  This assumes you’re running postfix and Spamassassin already. You need to remember that Spamassassin does nothing but score and tag spam.  There will always be false positives.  There are solutions that will handle most of it though. If…

PFSense Routing all or some traffic through StrongVPN using OpenVPN

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Percy Kwong

After Reading This Posting, consider reading the posting I have up on the Amazon Free Tier VPN Server I have up.  Getting VPN Services for a year while being able to control both ends of the tunnel is something that’s really nice.  If you sign up using my EC2 Link here below, I’ll give you…

Netflix and ISP Throttling bypassed by VPN [Solved]

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Percy Kwong

After Reading This Posting, consider reading the posting I have up on the Amazon Free Tier VPN Server I have up.  Getting VPN Services for a year while being able to control both ends of the tunnel is something that’s really nice.  If you sign up using my EC2 Link here below, I’ll give you…

RAID and what it Means

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

RAID.  Rapid Array of Inexpensive Disks.  That’s what it means.  The question is what level of RAID do you need? God knows there are plenty of different types of RAID.  This post explains the different RAID levels and *hopefully, it will help you pick the right configuration for you*** Note:  When in doubt, RAID 1+0…

Cyanogenmod 7 and GPS FIX on the T-Mobile G2

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Percy Kwong

G2 / Vision Fix for GPS with Gingerbread and Cyanogenmod 7 Success!!! CM7

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