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My Favourite WordPress Plugin

Joshua Rasnier — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:57:43 +0000

If you have been a user of WordPress for even a short period. You would know that plugins is a way of life for WordPress and the hundreds of thousands of plugins proves it. I have experienced lots of plugins in my life with WordPress and none would strike me as worthy to be talked [...]

Send Mail From Linux To A Mail Relay Service

Joshua Rasnier — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:04:55 +0000

In most medium to large businesses there are times, when you need to send mail to a mail relay service. This is used due to restrictions in access to external networks. Instead of having to open ports for every server in a network to allow sending of mail. You setup a mail relay server to [...]

Never Enough Cisco Routers In The World

Joshua Rasnier — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:03:13 +0000

As the title says there are just not enough Cisco routers in the world.

Nouveau vs Nvidia

Joshua Rasnier — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:17:02 +0000

In Linux if you have a Nvidia graphics card or about to install one. There are two choices of drivers you can install. On one side you got the proprietory drivers from Nvidia and on the other side you got the open source Nouveau drivers. Both of these drivers are built for Linux and work [...]

The Need For A Proper Backup Policy

Joshua Rasnier — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:59:39 +0000

In the news today it has been revealed that an Australian web hosting company Distribute.IT has lost data for over 4800 accounts. Due to in large part relaxed security and also an almost non-existent backup policy (Server snapshots are NOT backups). Link to article With all the backup solutions and large capacity storage media available [...]

How to Install Firefox 4 in Fedora, RHEL and CentOS

Joshua Rasnier — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:21:27 +0000

Mozilla Firefox 4 has finally been released after such a long development cycle, when compared to the development of the recent releases of Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. For those who have been waiting all this time. It can be painful waiting for the new version of Firefox to show up on the default repositories. [...]

All About Ramen at Ramen San

Joshua Rasnier — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:19:26 +0000

Sometime last year I discovered a nice little restaurant that serves ramen, called Ramen San. Since that day I have had to visit every one or two months to satisfy my cravings for Ramen. The menu is all about different sorts of ramen dishes. But does also include other japanese style dishes, such as tempura dishes. [...]

Four Most Effective Ways To Learn Linux

Joshua Rasnier — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:26:57 +0000

You might be completely new to Linux or have already started using Linux but might be wondering where else to go to learn Linux. I am here to give you the best ways to learn Linux from nothing. Following I believe are the most effective ways of learning about Linux, there are further methods which [...]

Five Truths of a Good SEO Consultant

Joshua Rasnier — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:43:13 +0000

SEO tends to be a long-term process and making a mistake tends to affect you for a even longer time after. So when you look for a SEO Consultant or SEO Firm you have to do your research. It’s like finding a builder to build a house, you wouldn’t just get any builder to build [...]

The Search Engine Optimization Secret

Joshua Rasnier — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:29:18 +0000

Everyone is always searching for the secret to getting a site to rank on page 1 for particular keywords or how to get more traffic to your site. Well I am going to tell you but you must promise to keep it a secret. The secret to a perfect SEO Campaign is simple. It is [...]