I'm noodling away at my websites performance using the Google Page Speed plugin. It recommends losslessly compressing your images using a number of utilities. I mostly upload png format images so I ran the following on my Wordpress content folder to compress the...

Since I moved to a self managed Rackspace Cloud Server. I've been forced to look at all the things that one would normally pay a shared hosting provider to manage. i.e. Security and Performance. So after installing a roll-your-own Apache+Suexec+Mod_Security+MySQL+PHP...

Just playing with the latest development snapshot of GIMP and discovered that it's got a really cool new way of sizing the pencil and brush tools. Before you had to select a 1, 3, 5 etc pixel brush or pencil. Which was annoying because I always seemed to want...

I've been yo'yoing (a word only Words with Friends would accept) between Ubuntu and Fedora and during my periods at the Apogee from one or the other distribution I find I want to do something in one or the other that I know the command of in the other or vice versa....

A list of on-line map websites: Nearmap.org - (Sadly this has become a paid for service - They do have single user licenses. Good but pricey) In Australia regular over-flight photos high def. Uses Openstreetmap.org's streetmaps so streetnames are usually missing....

I googled "VBScript Send Fax" today and got an excellent example: http://sandlerco.com/VBScript.htm http://sandlerco.com/fspfaq.htm Update: Microsoft Documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686957(v=VS.85).aspx But the site seems to be bouncing /...

Versions: Google Chrome: 14.0.835.163 Acrobat Reader: 9.4.2 Fedora 15 current patches as at 22/9/2011 This seems to reset Google Chrome so it opens the correct mkdir ~/tmp # create a temporary directory so you # can recover if it causes unexpected side effects # move...

Problem: If your resized image radio button options aren't available when you try to upload/insert an image into a wordpress post. Then you probably don't have gd enabled in PHP. Symptom: Work-a-round: Create a thumbnail of your image locally to the size you want and...

I have a Cisco Catalyst 100mbps switch between my source and destination workstations. I'm trying to copy about 26.1GB across and it's going to take circa 40minutes. My question is: Why am I only getting 11.2MB/s when I have a 100mbps switch? Quoting here I get an...

Usage: vmplayer.exe [OPTION...] [--] [configuration file] where OPTIONS are: -v show program version -X Enter full screen mode when a virtual machine is powered on -U Enter Unity when a virtual machine is powered on -s NAME=VALUE Set Preference variable NAME to...