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Testing, testing, and then some more testing

AR — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:19:41 +0000

After having spend some time not being busy with WordPress sites, modifications, plugins, etc. etc. (well, other than maintaining my own WP enabled sites) I’m currently again working on a WP-site with some added features, such as an integrated/bridged phpBB … Continue reading →

device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization

AR — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:15:37 +0000

So here I am, looking at two identical machines with identical OS installation and configuration etc., all appearing fine with other installations/configurations I’m working on, when I ended up doing a network device check running ifconfig and then wondering, why … Continue reading →

Batch image conversion, resizing and uploading

AR — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:08:01 +0000

Some time ago I added this article Very simple image gallery here. In it I describe, as the name suggests, a very simple image gallery for basic use, such as showing off game screenshots etc., which is precisely what I … Continue reading →

CentOS 5, Intel i7, lm_sensors

AR — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:45:16 +0000

Recently I set up a new machine with an Intel Core i7 860 CPU to run as a server with various tasks. While working on setting the box up, I realized that lm_sensors does not recognize any sensors on the … Continue reading →

WordPress: Display post links on a specific page

AR — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:28:30 +0000

Since I have modified the theme called Zombie-Apocalypse I use here on this site to display, I thought I’d share it here what I did exactly. First I started by adding a custom_field to each post to specify the type … Continue reading →

Hoster review part 4 – ElasticHosts

AR — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:08:23 +0000

Part 4 of my personal hoster review ElasticHost: Virtual cloud server processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 2500.004 … Continue reading →

Hoster review part 3 – Flexiscale/Flexiant

AR — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:06:45 +0000

Part 3 of my personal hoster review Flexiscale is a cloud server provider in the UK. At my current company we’ve moved a few websites and other services from physical machines in a datacenter in London to cloud servers provided … Continue reading →

Hoster review part 2 – Rackspacecloud

AR — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:04:44 +0000

Part 2 of my personal hoster review Rackspacecloud: Cloud server processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2350 HE stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 1995.001 cache … Continue reading →

Hoster review part 1 – 1&1

AR — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:03:12 +0000

Since I’m using virtualized system across two hosters on the net I wanted to share a little of my experience with them. I’ll be also throwing in some experience with two more hosters used in my current employment, while a … Continue reading →

Optimization with Pagespeed

AR — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:28:33 +0000

Here I’ll go a little into optimizing one or multiple sites with Pagespeed, both the Firefox plugin and the mod_pagespeed module for the Apache webserver. There are two tools with the name Pagespeed, both can be acquired here. The Firefox … Continue reading →