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I’m feeling sympathy for someone at Roam.com.au at the moment
Written 11 years ago. Published from Drafts April '25 Ever tested a mass email campaign and accidentally sent it to the wrong people. Here is what that looks like: And this is what it looks like once it's discovered: And this is what firefox looks like when it...
gtk-recordmydesktop+ffmpeg+audacity+pitivi
GTK-RecordMyDesktop is a great app for taking screen video's with sound. However on my Fedora 20 workstation. The sound recording is atrocious. The sound coming from my head phone mic into the recording of my desktop screen video is noisy and sub-par. To improve...
Kiblat
Last edited 10 years ago. Retreived from Drafts and published April '25 Just waiting for our ride to airport and noticed a sign stuck to the ceiling of our hotel room. Apparently Kiblat indicates the direction to Mecca. One learns new things every...
xTuple
This was from my Drafts folder Last edited 10 years ago. Published April '25. I don't use xTuple anymore. I have been using Simple Invoices to track invoices for James McDonald IT Services. The problem with Simple Invoices isn't that it's a bad program, it's just that...
CakePHP 3 – How to select last X number of records but have them sorted ascending
Written circa 2019 published from Drafts April '25 I wanted to get the last 16 records in a table but I want the values returned ascending In CakePHP 2 you could do a find and sort descending and then array_reverse the result. But with CakePHP it returns an entity and...
Attempt to Improve Synology NAS Data Transfer Rates
You have a Synology NAS (Synology DS415+ running DSM 6.1-15047) You want to change the volume file system from ext4 to btrfs You have 4.1T of data You have to completely remove the data and then break and rebuild the volume to convert it You hook up an ethernet cable...