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Check what your IP address is Online
There are many services that do this but looking in the Debian distributions package change logs I noticed that they are using http://checkip.dyndns.org/ to return your globally recognized IP address. And it returns a very nice sparse reply as follows. [code...
Getting APC Cache and batcache working on my Server
In Wordpress Admin Area Installed the "Batcache Manager" and "APC Object Cache" plugins using the Plugins ==> Add New option in the Wordpress Admin Panel and didn't activate created phpinfo.php in the web root of my webserver and called it via a browser Contents of...
Website Speed Up
Just discovered my traffic to this website has dropped by about 50% not sure why, could be the vagaries of searching engine ranking. Update: Apparently there has been some 52 algorithm changes on Google in April alone so I think I may be the victim of the Google SEO...
Inject IDE / SATA Drivers into an Ghost Image Restored into VMWare
Boot an XP VM with a working controller and the right Virtual Hardware Open Device Manager and expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Choose the Controller and then go in and view the properties Make a note of the PCI\Vend string. In this case it's VEN_8086&DEV_7111...
Work-a-round for Windows 2008 Search not finding File Names
Profoundly confused by Windows search. After Windows XP|2003 it doesn't seem to find anything even if you know the file is there. Indexing doesn't seem to find the files either. Selecting it to find system and hidden and still no joy. So here is my work around for...
VBS to Answer how many fax devices a Windows Fax Server has.
Set FaxServer = WScript.CreateObject("FAXCOMEX.FaxServer") FaxServer.Connect "" ' use empty quotes if you want the local machine set FaxDevices = FaxServer.GetDevices() msgbox(FaxDevices.count) Discovered that this only queries physical fax devices that show up in Fax...