Author Archives: JB

Batteries

Posted on March 11, 2014 by JB

Lithium-ion: – Avoid complete discharge – Store/re-charge at 50%

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Proftpd connections: ftptop – show current connections in realtime in a ‘top’ like format ftpwho – list current connections Restart Proftpd (Parallels Plesk/Cent OS): /etc/init.d/xinetd restart Active vs Passive FTP: A good article on this subject can be found here. MS-DOS … Continue reading →

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iPhone turn off auto text resize (html/css)

Posted on February 28, 2014 by JB

To stop an iPhone from automatically resizing text on a webpage use: html { -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; }

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Memory leak Netgear WNDA3100v2 USB Wifi adapter

Posted on February 24, 2014 by JB

Version 1.2 of the Windows XP driver has a memory leak – the solution is to upgrade the driver to a later version of the driver. Version 1.3 (driver date: 05/11/2009, driver version: 5.60.180.11) also appears to have a memory … Continue reading →

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SRV 2019 Error (The server was unable to allocate from the system NonPaged pool because the pool was empty)

Posted on February 19, 2014 by JB

An excellent article on troubleshooting this error can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/18/understanding-pool-consumption-and-event-id_3a00_–2020-or-2019.aspx

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Featured image missing WordPress

Posted on February 18, 2014 by JB

Add to a theme’s functions.php file: // add featured image support add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );

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Mac safe boot

Posted on February 17, 2014 by JB

Hold down shift key after startup tone.

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Apache reset/delete logs

Posted on February 15, 2014 by JB

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/howto.html#logreset The correct procedure is to move the logfile, then signal Apache to tell it to reopen the logfiles. Apache is signaled using the SIGHUP (-1) signal. e.g. mv access_log access_log.old kill -1 `cat httpd.pid` Note: httpd.pid is a file containing the process id of the Apache httpd … Continue reading →

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WordPress

Posted on February 12, 2014 by JB

CSS drop downs – drop down menus

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Low Power PCs

Posted on February 11, 2014 by JB

Low power PCs: Tiny Green PC Raspberry Pi – approx 2 – 3.5 watts Aleutia – approx 10 watts Intel NUC – approx 11 watts LIVA Mini PC – approx 15 watts Asus Eee Box – idle approx. 20w, running approx. 22.7 – … Continue reading →

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