A small shocker using Maya on a Quad-Core Intel processor was that CPU usage by default was about 50%. Yes that’s right FIFTY PERCENT. It looked similar to this: This was a little disappointing – Maya 2009 basically caused another dual-core machine to grind to a halt, and was only using about half the potential [...]
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Make Maya 2009 use a multi core cpu
February 22, 2009 15 comments
Joomla, SJSB, and SMF – displaying different things on different sites
February 18, 2009 No comments
I use a wrapper (SJSB) to show my SMF forums on my Joomla site. Tiny issue is that the text shows up quite small on the Joomla site. It’s alright for me, but if anyone’s got poor eyes, a tiny screen, or a high resolution, it’d be brutal. I could have changed the CSS to [...]
Here’s the issue. For the EGRR site, I have forums.eyeglassretailerreviews.com . I decided to install SJSB (Simple Joomla! 1.5.x / SMF 2.x Bridge) so that I could display the forums in-line (wrapped) on the www.eyeglassretailerreviews.com site as well. It works very well aside from the initial broken CSS, but I’ll give tips for formatting the [...]
Optimizing your WordPress database tables in phpMyAdmin can reduce the size!
February 16, 2009 No comments
I’ve been going through phpmyadmin doing a little database optimization throughout my sites. One big surprise was massive overhead in the “wp_comments” table for this blog. “Overhead” usually comes into play when you’ve deleted something, whether it’s a WordPress post/comments, Joomla articles, etc. It’s space that’s basically empty in the database (since the stuff’s been [...]
Do Link Directories work?
February 14, 2009 No comments
Writing my last post got me thinking about link directories. I’ve used them in the past. I don’t anymore. See… They’re legitimate. But they’re not very useful. At least not in the way most people try to use them. Website Traffic.
Getting indexed in Google in under 2 days
February 14, 2009 1 comment
A huge concern I had back when I first started my sites a few years ago was getting my sites indexed quickly. Really, I had spent hours making an excellent Eyeglass Review site, digging up piles of information and providing it to others. I went so far as to later buy glasses to review for [...]
A couple of my sites provide a lot of files for download. On my old webhost (asmallorange – a great shared host by the way), I originally started with a few small websites using their “Tiny” plan – a $25/year (just over $2/month!) plan that provided 75mb of space and 3GB of bandwidth per month. [...]
Trying to download files but they show as garbage characters – fixing your website.
February 11, 2009 No comments
Just about everyone’s seen this issue at some point or another. It’s a pain when it happens on your own site though. You click a link, expecting a download to start, and low and behold you simply get a new webpages with a pile of garbled text. Reason: For whatever reason, the MIME type of [...]
The easiest way to insert ads within content in Joomla 1.5
February 6, 2009 No comments
Joomla has a pile of extensions that can be used to insert ads into Joomla content. I tried about 10, and they all had a lot of limiting things about them… Often support only 1 type/style of ad Many have “broken” things about them (won’t display colors properly etc) In the case of adsense, many [...]
Migrating CPanel awstats from one host to another
February 1, 2009 No comments
Something little I wanted to do – I moved from a shared host to a VPS. Rather than doing the typical account backup, I had transferred the files and databases individually. The logs were easy enough to find in the original backup – they were in: /home/ACCOUNT/tmp/awstats The files are named something similar to awstats012007.somename.com.txt or [...]
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