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...
Open Source Apps
How long does it take for ddrescue to take a rescue image of 2TB SATA drive?
Answer: A long time. In my case I started at around 7:30PM last night and it's at 1343GB with another ~700GB to go and it's almost 8AM the following morning. So at the moment it's taken 12+HRs to do ~1.3TB. The total time was from 7:30PM 12/09/2011 to 2:41 13/02/2011....
Dreamhost VPS – Thoughts on how they could be better
Update Jan 2 2014: I migrated away from Dreamhost to a VPS at Rackspace hosting. I have to admin the Rackspace VPS myself (meaning the Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP environment is my problem to maintain) but the uptime and performance of the small 512 MB RAM VPS I...
Dreamhost VPS – You must be prepared to pay extra
I just moved this domain and a few others over to a Dreamhost VPS (Virtual Private Server). I have Wordpress, Gallery 3 and Piwik installed, plus several Joomla sites. To give you an idea of traffic affecting the VPS this Blog get's between 200 and 300 unique visitors...
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT).
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeBSD 8.2. Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT). Looking in the $LOCATION_OF_YOUR_VM/Logs/VBox.log file: 00:00:00.850 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: r0; VRDE Module: unusable because of...
xTuple Postbooks Install on Fedora 15
If you're trying out xTuples Postbooks on F15 64 bit you may need to install some extra libraries because of errors thrown during install: "There has been an error. /opt/xTuple/postgresql/bin/initdb: error while loading shared libraries: [libkrb5.so.3|libaudit.so.0]:...
Getting Around the Annoying Page Contains Secure and Un-Secure Content Warnings
If you develop a HTML page and source (SRC=) some images or scripts using a "http://" prefixed URL and then try and convert the site to run securely using https a lot of browsers will rightly complain that you are trying to serve encrypted and un-encrypted content....
Sydney Airport… Waiting
Mum took us to the airport. I've made the classic mistake of getting here way too early. Good news is there is wifi. I'm looking across at a youngish woman using an Apple (macbook I think). It's got this massive glowing apple on the back of the monitor. Brand is...
Postbooks Installation Failure
Trying to install Postbooks on a 32 bit Linux Mint 10 installation. There has been an error. /opt/xTuple/postgresql/bin/initdb: error while loading shared libraries: libaudit.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The application will exit...
I just like tables – All right?
I've tried over time to get into using CSS and the appropriate html tags to create tables but in the I want a table. So I've installed the "WP-Table Reloaded" plugin and now I have a wonderful and simple jQueryised interface within wordpress with which to generate and...
The Telarah Times Goes Mobile
I have an Android based HTC Desire Phone. I use it to read the news in the mornings after waking up. One of the frustrations I have found is trying to read web pages that are designed for people with 19" to 24" monitors on the tiny Android screen. I appreciate when a...
Playing around with WordPress Twitter Tools
I finally have a twitter account jmcd73. Not sure what it does. Just playin' really
WordPress for Android Video Upload
This link http://android.wordpress.org/2010/05/11/wordpress-for-android-version-1-2-geotagging-and-video-upload/ has the secret sauce for uploading 3gp videos to a wordpress blog namely the PJW Mime Config plugin. After installing PJW Mime Config the mime type you...
The web.archive.org Wayback Machine – A trip down memory lane
If you wonder what content your site had or how it looked months and even years ago http://web.archive.org may be the place to visit. I just had a look at my site http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://toggen.com.au/ and there are pages from as far back as 2003. I...
Separate Websites should be run under separate User Accounts
If you have an account with a webhost which allows you to run multiple domains (or even `unlimited' domains ala Dreamhost). You may be tempted to run multiple websites under the default account that is provided by the hosting company. But while convenient, this has a...
Dia — Joining Lines where they Cross over Each Other
Dia is a great Open Source diagramming program that has extensive `shape' libraries for a lot of different applications (I use it for drawing network diagrams and flow-charts). When using Dia one of the questions that arises fairly regularly is: Is it possible to...
Resolve Relative to Absolute Paths with readlink
Just wanted to resolve a relative file path so that I can pass it as an absolute path to a program. #!/bin/sh QCAD_DIR=/opt/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86 ABS_PATH=$(readlink -f "$1") cd $QCAD_DIR && ./qcad $ABS_PATH Credits: Andy
Encourage Comments on Your Blog
I'm fairly strict with what I allow as comments on this blog. But if someone has gone to the effort to post a well-thought-out comment I don't mind if they put a URL in the comment or the associated website field and therefore gain some SEO benefit from it. I have...