Just discovered that Google has some Public DNS servers that you can use. More details here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Pro Given that Googles infrastructure is global and rock solid I presume that the DNS service will be just as good. Con...
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Graphic jamesmcdonald.id.au Traffic Drop from April Onwards
Now if I can just figure out what is causing it
Fedora 17 FTW
Just installed Fedora 17 Beta into a Virtualbox VM and two things I notice. It's an evolutionary improvement to Fedora 16, and the Gnome 3 interface is miles ahead of Ubuntu 12.04's Unity desktop. (OK, I admit I can't get used to Unity's left dominant menu style.)...
Example of using STDIN and STDOUT with VBScript
Creating a filter for Formtrap Forms Server to modify a barcode passed in from the ERP system. launch it with Here is the script 'takes print stream and strips batch suffix to leave YDDD ' don't muck around read the...
Remove .svn directories from a working copy linux then copy new .svn copies back to it.
Warning: This is a procedure that can bork your working copy. Backup and test to make sure you can recover before you even think about doing this. Regarding this post: http://andrew.hedges.name/blog/2009/01/25/how-to-recover-from-checksum-mismatch-errors-in-svn...
Different Options for Cron Job Standard Output and Error Output
A cron job I have created to run a backup script every week day at 5:10PM # m h dom mon dow command # backup simple invoices and subversion repo # every week day 10 17 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/backup.sh Here are some different command output redirection options Redirect...
Some Reasons Why My Site Might Not Be Doing Well in Search. Put Here for Later Reading
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34444
Google Drive Mobius Loop Icon looks Vaguely like a Recycling Symbol
I don't know if anyone else can see the similarity but the Recycling Symbol and the Google Drive symbol seem to be derived from the same concept namely a mobius strip or loop.
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...

