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…
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Database Backed Web Applications Advice
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
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]
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
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]
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…
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How to Make Your WordPress Blog Available in 43 Languages [Solved]
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.
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.
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…