A look at a couple grow LED’s that fit in a standard light socket, and are heavily over-rated.
Read More →Galaxyhydro 135w UFO – an inside look at this grow LED
A look at the “guts” of the Galaxy Hydro 135W LED grow light. Here’s hoping for some tasty tomatoes!
Read More →THE FIX: Ubuntu and Steam install issues, including exit after accepting agreement
During testing for the Linux build of Alarameth TD, I fired up a Ubuntu 14.04 “live cd” a number of times before finally breaking down and tossing another hard drive in the machine to save the time of downloading the Steam client over and over (and to give the game a test on an upgraded […]
Read More →Quick Fix: Plastic Impact Sprinkler sticking
If you got one (or more!) of the low cost plastic spring-loaded impact sprinklers that tend to come in 2-packs, you may have found that one (or both) of them have a tendency to stop rotating. Whether it’s made by Orbit, Yardworks, Nelson, or another brand, the plastic models tend to be cheaply made and a […]
Read More →Should you adopt SSL?
Considering a move to HTTPS? I take a look at a number of potential pitfalls, and mention a few items to consider when taking the plunge.
Read More →PHPNG – It’s pretty quick.
I compared the performance of PHPNG to the default PHP 5.5.9 that comes with Ubuntu 14.04LTS. The results were impressive.
Read More →Serving up WebP to supported browsers: Nginx/cwebp/gif2webp & results!
I decided to give WebP a shot on a Ubuntu 14.04LTS VPS running nginx. Here’s the process I followed, and the results!
Read More →No JQuery Lightbox for WordPress (plugin)
Trying to find a WordPress lightbox that didn’t require JQuery was nothing short of a nightmare. So I put together my own!
Read More →Compressing only html/css/js/etc files for use with nginx’s “gzip static”
Nginx has a great directive called “gzip_static” that will serve pre-gzipped content. Here’s how I set up a VPS to generate pre-gzipped versions automatically.
Read More →A few DNS benchmarks – Dec 2014
I ran some quick speed tests against 4 common DNS providers from 12 locations, and put together the results.
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