St. Louis Retail: the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on: Friday, 2012.01.13 by J.D. H. in in Daily Updates, Travel, Work,

I spent the past few days with Samantha and Hazel in St. Louis. We were visiting my longtime buddy and business partner John. We had a great trip and accomplished a lot of fun stuff (dining out, talking, playing) as well as some serious work (computer & server installation, house planning, etc.) One thing that [...]

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Shed to office conversion!

Posted on: Wednesday, 2011.10.19 by J.D. H. in in Household, Remodeling, Work,

Misc progress report below: 2011.10.18 finished cleaning out shed and removing all existing fixtures/items 2011.10.19 reinforced west wall, installed 36″x36″ window Thurs 10/20 x Seal gaps with expanding foam Fri 10/21 x roofing felt x wood supports x Install foam Sat/Sun 22/23 Taking a break for a trip to play disc-golf in Winona and visit [...]

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ProFTPd MySQL configuration / Linux free space check / setting Gentoo static IP

Posted on: Saturday, 2011.10.08 by J.D. H. in in Misc Links, Weblogs.us, Work,

Links and info that were useful during a recent database server move: #1 Setting (or changing) a static IP address on Gentoo: Gentoo Forums :: View topic – Switching to a static IP (within your network)http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-747458-start-0.html #2 Find out how much disk space is left in Linux, or what the disk size is Linux Command [...]

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Fixing Warning: date() [function.date] in PHP 5.3 [solved]

Posted on: Sunday, 2011.10.02 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, Weblogs.us, Work,

If you recently upgraded to a newer version of PHP, like PHP 5.3, you may be getting some errors similar to this in your PHP scripts: Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you [...]

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Best AdSense colors, formats and font sizes (and WordPress)

Posted on: Thursday, 2011.09.22 by J.D. H. in in WordPress tips, Work,

Here are some helpful resources on the topic, in order from most helpful first to not quite as helpful last #1 My FAVORITE AdSense WordPress plugin It is simple, effective and powerful. But best of all it is FREE! WordPress › Quick Adsense « WordPress Pluginshttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-adsense/Quick Adsense is an Ads management WordPress plugin. It offers [...]

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1030 Got error 28 from storage engine mysql [solved]

Posted on: Saturday, 2011.09.10 by J.D. H. in in Weblogs.us, Work,

If you receive an error from your MySQL databaser server that reads: #1030 Got error 28 from storage engine Then  you will want to check and make sure your server has sufficient free space. One of my servers gave this error and it was because the drive  that MySQL was installed on had no more [...]

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Cheap tech gear for telecommuting jobs in Colorado

Posted on: Wednesday, 2011.08.10 by J.D. H. in in Cameras, computer tips, Computers, Gadgets and Tech, Travel, Work,

Colorado is a wonderful state to visit for business or pleasure. This summer my wife and I will be spending almost a month there. We have a housesitter for home and will be staying at a cabin at 10,500 ft. For the portion of the stay where I’ll be working (telecommuting) I have tried out [...]

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Installing VMWware ESX Server 3i (ESXi) on an Intel Atom & USB stick

Posted on: Wednesday, 2011.04.20 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, Weblogs.us, Work,

I have a couple Supermicro X7SPA-HF-O Atom boards that I’m planning on putting IPCop on. #1 is an Atom motherboard as the primary firewall (for Weblogs.us) #2 is another identical Atom board as a secondary backup firewall. Here’s the motherboard in question: X7SPA-HF-O Supermicro X7SPA-HF-O Atom Dual-Core D510/ Intel 945GC/ RAID/ V&2GbE/ Mini-ITX Motherboard, Retail [...]

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