How CleanTalk Helps Keep Spambots in-check I receive a fair number of e-mails most days. Everything was fine with e-mail until not that long ago. Suddenly, my inbox began exploding with a ton of notifications that spammers were attempting to post comments to our website. Hmm. Pretty sure out of all the plug-ins we have […]
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Consider These Key Enablers for your Next Website Websites today come in all different shapes and sizes. Rather than slug it out on my own, I elected to use WordPress as the foundation for one of my websites in part due to the abundance of plug-ins both internal and third-party. Nothing screams utility more than having
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Lessons I Learned While Fighting Against a Tow Bill What a slug-fest! Getting down was the easy part. We took a trip in our vehicle one cold, sunny afternoon in the spring-time; our journey took us to the bottom of a rather steep hill. I should have known better! The road was covered in a
Optimize fstab to Improve R/W Performance of Hard-drives Wow what a difference! If you have read a couple of my other articles you may know about my adventures with file sharing on a home network. Taking a homebrew approach at setting all this up has proven… interesting. Not the least of which was when I
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Pertinent Steps to Configure a Linux Server to Share Files In this article I walk quickly through *most* of the steps needed to set up a file server for home sharing for a DIY networked attached storage (NAS). Spoiler alert: it is very basic and uses Samba. Yes, some of you might be thinking I
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Helpful Set-up Steps for the Ever-So-Nifty ADS-1250W Scanner In part 1 of this article I discussed how to connect the ADS-1250W to a network. Part 2 is where I do a walk-through of how to set it up in Ubuntu. Provided you completed all of the steps in Part 1, your Brother ADS-1250W scanner should
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Network-Attached Storage Built from Scratch In this article I do a brief walk-through of a home-built Network-attached storage (NAS) device entitled ‘MaximusNAS’. You can think of it like an external hard-drive or HDD on steroids, like having your own private cloud. As opposed to an external drive, it sits on your network. Provided you have configured
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Helpful Set-up Steps for the Ever-So-Nifty ADS-1250W Scanner In this two-part article I walk through the steps I took to set up my Brother ADS-1250W scanner, a nifty little piece of kit for office dwellers and road warriors alike. Step 1 — Grab a hot cup of your beverage of choice; I hope you find this article
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How a Few Lines of Code Makes me Want to do Cartwheels Down the Street If you ask me, Python and databases both jumped in the air and kicked up their heels the day SQLAlchemy made its first appearance. Have any of you had to struggle with writing database queries and other complicated SQL statements? Look
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Helpful Sharing Tips using Network File System (NFS) Clap if you are a pet owner! We have three in our house and love them dearly. Needless to say there are more than a couple of cat photos on one of our older computers that I wanted to move to network-attached storage. Being a bit cautious
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