New wordpress same old theme
I’ve just upgraded my wordpress install, and am very impressed. Really slick! ..and best of all it works with an iPhone app from which this post (of no use to anyone) has come Sheesh it’s warm out! Tweet
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Fetching mail with fetchmail
During a domain transfer, while DNS was still propogating I needed to retrieve mail from the old server to the new. I did so thusly… # yum install fetchmail $ touch .fetchmailrc $ chmod 600 .fetchmailc I then added the following lines to .fetchmailrc poll <remote_ip> with proto POP3 user <remoteemail@example.com> there with password “<password>” [...]
KeePassX on CentOS
I’ve been playing with CentOS 5 lately, and really needed KeePassX on it. I ran into a few problems… No rpms for Centos means you have to try and build from source. You also need qt-devel on the machine but it has to be version 4.3 or greater to compile. So I had to enable [...]
Speedy wamp
To get a bit more speed out of your sluggish windows development machine (I use wampserver), add the following code to your php.ini. ; APC accellerator extension=php_apc.dll [APC] apc.enabled = 1 apc.cache_by_default = 1 apc.enable_cli = 0 apc.shm_segments = 1 apc.shm_size = 64 apc.max_file_size = 1M apc.stat=1 Also download the APC dll from here… http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_apc.dll [...]
Fresh install essentials
I’m still using windows for my primary development environment, although the bulk of the software I use is open source and/or free. I thought I’d share/store a rundown of some of the apps I install on a fresh windows build. Google Chrome (Quite a surprise winner this!) Comodo Firewall AVG antivirus Keepass 7zip Notepad++ Eclipse PDT and [...]
