(Oops.. In my haste, I made a boo boo.. I corrected it.. the post is correct now) It happens to all of us at one time or another. We decide to change our permalink structure and something / everything breaks in WordPress. Not because of the fact that we changed the structure, but everybody and…
Category: Windows
Update and Review on Recovering Space ala Percy
I’ve written about recovering space on your hard-drive using a method called data-deduplication. It’s beyond the complexities and skill of most people out there except for the select few that are the true gurus of the tech world. The original Posting is here: http://swimminginthought.com/recovering-space-hard-drive/ I just thought it would be important to point out how…
Using Amazon’s Free Tier to get a free VPN connection for a year.
I know I’ve written about this in the past, but I’ve finally created a guide on how to do this step by step. It’s available for purchase now. This is literally a how-to on getting an OpenVPN server up and running for free for a year. Specify Your Donation: (Min. $5.00) [wp_eStore_buy_now:product_id:11:end]
Recovering space on your hard drive
There are many articles about dealing with recovering space on your computer / hard drive / Storage and they all talk about the same things. This article isn’t going to so much focus on that, but simply focus on the not so obvious things you can do. As a rule of thumb, there are always…
A very easy way to eliminate quite a bit of SPAM if you’re using Postfix and Spamassassin. [SOLVED]
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…
A Follow Up to Using the Promise R4/R6 natively in Bootcamp using my solution. [Solved and Verified]
A few months ago, I posted the following: http://swimminginthought.com/2012/01/promise-pegasys-r6r4-on-windows-bootcamp-solved/ I figured out the solution on how to run this wonderful device on Bootcamp / Windows natively. Needless to say, it’s been a while now and I’ve even gone so far as to update the firmware on the R4/R6 (I’m running an R6 by the way)….
Is Firefox preventing you from going to a website because of the port it’s on? [Solved]
Every once in a while, we need to go to a website that has a non-standard port. For example, the address might look like this: https://localhost:888 (This would be for the 3ware management interface for example). In Mozilla Firefox, you’ll get a screen that looks like this: [singlepic id=63] Obviously, this can be a real…
How to Bind utorrent to a specific ip and route it out a vpn for better speed. [Solved]
Torrent technology is an amazing in the sense it uses swarms of users to serve and share files you may be trying to download. It’s been implemented by many companies and is a very bandwidth efficient format to get your files served to you faster. Whenever I download CentOS DVDs, I use utorrent and other…
Finding out the Backbone Provider of an ISP, VOIP Provider, or any SaaS provider [SOLVED]
It’s amazing how all the providers out there refuse to tell you who they’re connected to. This is very prevalent amongst VOIP providers as well as quite a few SaaS providers. You want to know who they’re connected to so you can make a decision on whether or not they’re going to be reliable. So…
A less costly way to build an Amazon AMI without incurring the cost of doing it on EC2
I build Amazon AMIs. I started out building them on the actual Amazon EC2 infrastructure myself only to learn that doing so costs the runtime and the money on EC2. There is an easier way to get alot of it out of the way without it actually costing something. My suggestion is to build a…