Category Archives: Work

Monitoring Apache2 bandwidth usage by individual VirtualHosts

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At Weblogs.us we have been going through bandwidth at a fast pace lately. We use Apache2 as our web server,  and while we have some rough bandwidth monitoring tools, we could really use a more granular view of bandwidth usage. The ideal solution for us would be a time configurable view (i.e. hour, day, month, year) of bandwidth usage on a per VirtualHost basis. While researching solutions these were the most useful links I found: Apache Virtual Host Bandwidth Monitoring

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Really good iOS apps: example 1 [Wild Fables]

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Developing an iOS app is not that hard. Developing a good iOS app is surprisingly hard. It is always nice to see a developer doing things right and really creating a valuable app for the end user. Therefore I was very happy to come across some good coding tips here: How to Write an iOS App That Uses a Web Service | Ray Wenderlichhttp://www.raywenderlich.com/2965/how-to-write-an-ios-app-that-uses-a-web-serviceIn this tutorial, you’ll get hands-one experience with using web services, by writing an iOS app that communicates

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Shed to office conversion!

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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 John in STL. Stopped by Lowe’s to pickup supplies including screws and trim. Mon 24th (x) Pickup poplar wood for trim (80%) Plywood up (80%

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ACPI\SMO8800 Dell [SOLVED]

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Q. Hello, I have a Dell laptop and I just reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on it. Now I have an unknown device ‘ACPI\SMO8800’ in device manager. What driver can I download to fix it? A. Here are the download links for the driver that should solve your ACPI\SMO8800 Unknown Device issue: [download id=”10460″ format=”1″], Dell dl link NOTE: The driver is for your Dell laptop’s ST Microelectronics Free Fall Sensor (accelerometer), it is what shows up as Unknown Device ACPI\SMO8800 🙂 More

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

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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 To Find How Much Disk Space Is Being Used Show Displayhttp://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/linux-command-to-find-how-much-disk-space-is-being-used-show-display-t713.htmla simple linux shell command to show you how much space a directory is using

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Upgrading M4400 -> How to backup/get my favorite folders from XP to Win7

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NOTE: you can also view all the entries in this Q & A series… On 10/7/2011 11:38 AM, David wrote: PS. My 4400 is pretty clean (hard drive that I am swapping out). What I mean by that is I only have some evaluation versions of 3D software, my stock trading software, and Windows Explorer etc… I plan on reloading all of my program software onto the SSD. Many of the programs will need to be download again in x64. However,

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[HOWTO] upgrading M4400 (RAM, CPU, SSD, BIOS)

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NOTE: you can also view all the entries in this Q & A series… I received the following question on my previous post about upgrading a Dell M4400 laptop: Q. Great J.D. Thank you. I also have an M4400. I purchased it a year or so ago so that I could have a portable solution as I explore 3D graphics programs such as 3DSMax etc…Based on your above post (and a few others) I have purchased a qx9300 quad core processor,

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

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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 used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected ‘America/Chicago’ for […]  instead

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