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Page Load Speed Improvements

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...

Page Speed

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...

GIMP Cool New Feature

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...

The YUM equivalent to apt-get build-dep

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....

Mapping Websites

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....

VBScript Send Fax

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 /...