by Ben | Jul 4, 2008
Ever have nine Firefox windows open, with 5+ tabs in each? This could easily chew up 250 megs of memory or more, even if you suddenly reduce to one window with no tabs. On a system with less than 1 gig of memory, these are valuable system resources we’re...
by Ben | Jun 25, 2008
I ran into a problem recently where I needed to delete all rows in a MySQL table that were older than three months. To delete MySQL/MariaDB rows older than date xxxx-xx-xx, I was able to accomplish this with the following statement: MySQL DELETE FROM `table` WHERE...
by Ben | Jun 25, 2008
When it comes to typography, Microsoft TrueType fonts are both visually appealing and aesthetically pleasing. They’re found all over the web, usually specified in stylesheets. Unfortunately for Linux users, the most common TTFs aren’t installed (by...
by Ben | May 24, 2008
Fedora 9 was released this past Tuesday. The upgrade process has changed slightly, with the Fedora Project integrating a new tool called PreUpgrade. To upgrade, make sure your system is fully updated with: [code] yum -y update [/code] and reboot when the process has...
by Ben | May 19, 2008
Some may find that out-of-the-box, Hardy Heron’s network performance is painfully slow. By default, IPv6 is enabled, and chances are good that your nearest router can’t speak the language nor interpret DNS requests efficiently. To disable IPv6, open a...
by Ben | Nov 29, 2007
Run once, huh? Good work, Microsoft. Way to throw more wood on the ‘annoying’ fire. Manually add these keys: [code] [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain] “RunOnceComplete”=dword:00000001...
