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perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings ubuntu

May 30, 2009 – 2:22 am
Posted in Ubuntu Server
Tagged Locales, Perl, ubuntu
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The fix (change to whatever language or version of english you’re using eg en_GB):

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure locales

May 29, 2009 – 3:04 am
Posted in Image Manipulation, Image Optimization, Ubuntu Server, Web Development
Tagged Imagemagick, Mogrify, ubuntu
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First install imagemagick.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Then cd to your folder with your jpg images and type the following:

mogrify -quality 75 *jpg

Image optimization quality is defined by the number after -quality. In this example 75%.

Upload Image WordPress Error Problem

April 14, 2009 – 1:10 pm
Posted in WordPress Mu, Wordpress Plugins
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Sometimes wordpress plugins can interfere with the basic functionality of wordpress such as uploading files.

April 7, 2009 – 6:13 am
Posted in Business Networking, Direct Marketing, Landing Pages, Web Development, WordPress Mu, Wordpress Themes
Tagged Blogging, Blogs
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The fundamental blog layout can be pretty crap for converting visitors unless you have exceptional content that can’t be found anywhere else.

The ‘above the fold’ (top of the page before scrolling) area on most blogs is usually taken up by one story and a bunch of basic links in a sidebar. Layouts like Smh homepage are optimized to get a user to click on an article with a selection of images associated with articles.

Hot images can really help increase ctr. The band of images near the bottom of the fold on the shm is a proven converter.

February 13, 2009 – 1:13 am
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged mysql
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If you’ve created a new larger elastic block store volume from a snapshot with more disk space and size you will need to also resize the partition.

December 17, 2008 – 3:44 am
Posted in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
Tagged Ibex, Intrepid, ubuntu
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How to install and run Ie6 on Internet Explorer on Ubuntu Ibex with Wine Tricks.

December 9, 2008 – 4:14 am
Posted in Web Apps, Web Development
Tagged mysql
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If you’re moving or copying MySQL Binary files be sure to do the following:

December 8, 2008 – 10:22 pm
Posted in Geek Talk, Healthy Eating, Male Fertility
Tagged men, Sperm
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Hilarious excerpts from SlashDot – a nerdy tech site on an article about male fertility:

December 2, 2008 – 6:04 am
Posted in Python Programming, Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
Tagged Command Line, Linux, ubuntu
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I looked at different ways to “Search and Replace” Text in Files Recursively using the Linux Command Line.

November 28, 2008 – 2:18 am
Posted in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Web Apps, Web Development
Tagged ubuntu
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Here’s an explanation of a desktop setup for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

November 28, 2008 – 12:22 am
Posted in Debian Etch, Nginx, Php Optimization
Tagged Debian, mysql, NginxD, php-fpm, Xcache
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Here’s a nice post on setting up Nginx with PHP-FPM, Xcache on Debian Etch.

November 28, 2008 – 12:17 am
Posted in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Ubuntu Server
Tagged BootUp-Manager, init.d, rc.local, Server, ubuntu
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If you’d like to include scripts that get run on boot for Ubuntu Desktop you can use synaptic manager to load BootUp-Manager.

November 28, 2008 – 12:05 am
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged php, php-fpm
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I read this article on php-fpm init script but it didn’t have one.

You can use the php-fpm init.d script below. You need to change the variables at the start for your bin, conf, and pid to suit your set up. PHP-FPM works great with Nginx.

Not sure if WordPress will format this script right so you can get as a text file here:

http://images.honewatson.com/random_files/php-fpm.txt

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“http post” with Python Multi Form

November 12, 2008 – 10:28 pm
Posted in Python Programming, Web Apps, Web Development
Tagged python
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Multi form “http post” with python.

October 13, 2008 – 11:16 am
Posted in Web Apps, Web Development
Tagged dreamhost, rails, ror, ruby, ruby on rails, upgrade
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The geniuses over at Dreamhost decided to upgrade their Rails without telling anyone and without providing instructions on how to upgrade older apps meaning hundreds of websites crashing and not working for days.
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