Batteries

Posted on March 11, 2014 by JB

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

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FTP Notes

Posted on March 1, 2014 by JB

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 Ftp command Passive Mode:

To set passive mode type:

quote pasv
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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 leak (this version appears to leak faster than v1.2).

(System: Windows XP 32-bit, Pentium 4)

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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 daemon, Apache saves this in the same directory as the log files.

(httpd.pid is in /var/run on plesk)

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WordPress

Posted on February 12, 2014 by JB
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Low Power PCs

Posted on February 11, 2014 by JB

Low power PCs:

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