I believed in you. I thought you had potential. But apparantly I was wrong. May whatever God you believe in… have mercy on your soul…. This court stands adjourned. Q – “All Good Things…” – Star Trek: The Next Generation DMOZ was arguably once a strong, vibrant, quality directory. But my, how things have changed. [...]
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Browsing Posts published in October, 2009
Anti-Virus software and activation: Why free just might be better than paid
October 25, 2009 No comments
I’ve been hooked on Kaspersky for a while now. Periodically we’d have something that slipped by some of the free anti-virus programs, and since Kaspersky and NOD32 were the only strongly recommended ones out there that were low on bloat, I tried them both and settled on Kaspersky. This year, we grabbed a 5 user [...]
Cities XL vs Sim City 4
October 18, 2009 7 comments
I’m a huge casual Sim City fan. By that I mean I’ll play it for a few days at a time, then take a break for a few months, then come back to it. The Sim City franchise has been great – I could go into details about the joys of everything from Sim City [...]
Fixing a broken contact form on a Joomla site
October 18, 2009 3 comments
Recently, I switched most of my sites to another server. After about a week of not receiving any messages through the contact form on one of them, I suddenly realized… “ya know… it’s been a while”. I tried sending myself a test message through the contact form, and never received it. Sending from another email [...]
Removing mootools.js and caption.js from Joomla
October 16, 2009 2 comments
If you’ve tried to clean up your Joomla template, something may have perplexed you at one point or another. There’s no mention of mootools or caption.js in the template file, yet these 2 things end up in the HEAD section of all your pages anyway. If your site is pretty basic, you probably don’t need [...]
Converting videos to flash for free
October 16, 2009 No comments
While looking for a way to convert MP4 to FLV, I came across a couple free programs. Since I had problems finding free programs to convert videos to flash in the past, I’ll list them here. While both are free, neither are open-source (if anyone knows of an open source converter feel free to leave [...]
Samsung ML-1210 and Windows 7 – the driver
October 14, 2009 53 comments
UPDATE: Samsung’s released Windows 7 drivers. You can find them here: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/ML-1210 or for the direct link here: http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/200910/20091020193406500/ML-1200_Win7.exe (thanks to Paul and Keith for the links in the comments below). So… Install Windows 7, hook up the Samsung ML-1210 printer, and… …well not much happens. If you’ve gone to Samsung’s site, you may have [...]
Host CPU speed test – HostGator vs VPSLink vs WiredTree
October 8, 2009 2 comments
While reading through WHT, I came across a neat little tidbit. It’s a bit of PHP code that can be used to get an idea as to how fast the processor is on the machine your websites are hosted on – or at least the speed you have available to you. A thanks to “webpan” [...]
SimpleCDN vs Amazon CloudFront
October 7, 2009 12 comments
UPDATE 2 (Dec 11 2010): SimpleCDN is currently DOWN! Posted at mattgadient.com/2010/12/10/simplecdn-down-for-good? Update: SimpleCDN has changed somewhat in their offerings (there seems to be a move away from the “small customer” base), and thus, much of the following is outdated. I recently started up an account at SimpleCDN to help offload a webserver a little [...]
How to add Google’s canonical tag to Joomla articles
October 5, 2009 5 comments
Background: I used to use non-SEF url’s on a Joomla site, and recently turned on Joomla’s built-in SEF. Problem is that the old URL’s still “work”. Of course, this is great for people who visit – not so great when GoogleBot comes along. GoogleBot comes happily along and for any given article sees the original [...]
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