Introduction This is a quick summary of guidelines of how to learn a programming language using perl as the example. It is meant for people who are brand new to programming and developing on unix systems. There is nothing in … Continue reading
I try to keep things simple and inexpensive. Instead of paying for backups I roll my own. Now I do pay for network bandwidth so now I have to make sure I keep the network usage to a minimum. My … Continue reading
Why I switched I recently switched to a new hosting provider. I chose https://www.digitalocean.com. These are the reasons: It give me twice as much ram and disk space for half the price. It uses SSD drives It has a simple, … Continue reading
I noticed in my log files a large amount of calls to wp-cron.php. The following site provides a useful discussion of this event. http://www.lucasrolff.com/wordpress/why-wp-cron-sucks/ The instructions at the site provided above explain how to use cPanel to enable cron. But … Continue reading
Introduction SSH tunnelling has been around for years and there are plenty of discussions and how-to’s on the internet that explain the process, the mechanism and anything else about it. This is my small and humble explanation and demonstration. Lets … Continue reading
The reason for moving WordPress from fedora to another OS is that other operating systems have longer support for patches and I am tired of doing a full upgrade every 6 months to a year just to pull in critical … Continue reading
I gave up on gnome3. I couldn’t make the gnome3 work for me and I did not want to use something that was not supported. I could use a fork of gnome2 but way back in the day when I … Continue reading
I bought a Belkin N450DB Wireless Router It seems to be working OK and overall i am quite satisfied with it. However, one day I noticed that there were a few thousand DNS lookups to heartbeat.belkin.com. I tried to figure … Continue reading
Information Technology and fundamental Infrastructure Databases I’m sure a whole book can be written on subject Infrastructure Databases and but I want to keep this short and simple. First some definitions: Assets and Infrastructure databases An infrastructure asset is a … Continue reading
I have had this website set up for a while now. Since day one I have perused the logs to see the activity but I never really had the time to correlate some of the activity. Well, I just wrote … Continue reading
