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WordPress migration to new host

28 December 2008

I purchased a new VPS (virtual private server) host and have been moving many blogs I host for myself and others to the new host (Linode — which I’m very satisfied with and recommend highly). There’s multiple ways to do this, including just saving the mysql table as a backup, and reimporting, but since I’ve [...]

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Defining multiple cell modems in Leopard

19 June 2008

This is a guide to show how to connect and configure multiple cellular wireless devices up to a computer running Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) using USB and Bluetooth.

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GoDaddy SSL certs and Symbian phones

4 June 2006

I recently got a cool Nokia N90 smart phone but it throws up SSL certificate warnings when used with GoDaddy issued SSL certificates. These certs are nice because they are only $30/year instead of several hundred for Verisign. Allegedly they work with all modern browsers. Sigh, not with the latest Symbian devices. Not only does [...]

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Rescaning SCSI bus for SAN disk adds

7 August 2005

This should not have been as difficult to do as it was. Simple concept, add disks and hence LUNs to the scan, and you want to use them on your host without having to umount all disks and reload the scsi driver. There’s a script to rescan the scsi bus from a website that automates [...]

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Firefox popups

3 August 2005

Just so I don’t forget, here’s how to stop Flash popups from Firefox. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins Set the value to 2.

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Moving data with mirrors

3 August 2005

The main data volume on the system at work ran out of PEs due to the old default PE size of 4 MB and 64k of PEs being in the volume group. There’s no way to change that without recreating the volume group, and blowing away everything. So I have to move the 250 gigs [...]

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Evaluating Groupware

29 March 2005

My CTO wants a groupware product, easier said than done!

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