Open Source Apps

Bunnings Warehouse an Australian hardware supplier prints purchase receipts that have a tendency to fade to the point of being unreadable. The rate at which they fade seems to depend on how much light they get and how much heat they have to endure. The problem is that...

Keep getting asked "Where can I build a site on the internet" preferably for free or low cost OK so here are some links to templated DIY site building websites: Google Sites Wix Website Builder Squarespace So to get started on the Internets for eCommerce what do you...

http://tfischernet.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/searchable-pdfs-with-linux/ PDF Copy of blog post in case they stop blogging and leave the internet

I want to output custom XML without any HTML or DTD tags using CGI.pm Here is my hack to get what I'm after: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard -any); # use the -any option to turn on custom tags # e.g. I can use $r->item("Item Content") to create # Item...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...