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Installing Windows Home Server onto a drive smaller than 160Gb

May 31, 2012

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I was about to give up installing Windows Home Server 2011 onto an SSD – but eventually found this article… THANK YOU – it was surprisingly easy to get past this hard-coded idiot limit when I found this article… http://connecteddigitalworld.com/2011/09/20/installing-whs-2011-or-sbs-2011-essentials-on-ssd-or-sata-hard-drives-smaller-than-160gb Installing WHS 2011 on SSD or SATA Hard Drives smaller than 160GB September 20,…

A super moon?

May 5, 2012

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A Social Animal

in Other

Is this there a “super moon” tonight? It looked normal to me … But now clouds and a large storm obscure it…

Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)

Mar 21, 2012

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A Social Animal

in Other, Technology

Spammers seem to have found a way of sending spam comments to your wordpress images – and there doesn’t appear (as yet) to be a way to default the options on attachments to “No Comments” or “No Pings”. so – I wrote a quick and easy script to drop into the root folder of your…

moving from test to a live environment with WordPress

Feb 4, 2012

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A Social Animal

in WordPress

After moving files from a test environment to live, still using the test environment, change the settings from http://dev.yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com However – this doesn’t fix everything – because there are HIGHLY likely to be references in pages or posts to images/media on the old test environment – these will STOP working when you drop…

If they get into your wordpress, can they execute php code?

Jan 31, 2012

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A Social Animal

in Other

Most wordpress exploits rely on the attacker getting into your site being able to run some kind of code – this is often DISASTROUS for your site – at the very least you can become a site infecting your visitors – at worst, they’ll take over your site, load hundreds or thousands of files to…

Hiding the version of WordPress

Jan 31, 2012

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A Social Animal

in Other

Many bots trawl the internet looking for various content management systems to exploit – how they know you’re using a particular CMS is normally easy for them to determine by looking at the source of the site – be it Joomla! or Drupal, or WordPress – when they find the version you have, they’ll start…

Inflation is only 3.2% – oh cmon now, they must think we’re stupid…

Jun 13, 2011

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A Social Animal

in The Present

The US Government seems to think we’re stupid – or so I have come to realize… they’re telling us that inflation is a mere 3.2% – meanwhile, back on planet reality – have you noticed food packages shrinking? I have – the packages for many food sizes shrink and the prices are remaining the same……

First Friday Fish Fry

Apr 1, 2011

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local, Deals and Bargains

Every first friday of the month in Johnstown our local VFW has a fish fry . We have been meaning to try it fir months and months and months .. Today we finally made it … and do wish we had made it earlier … $8 cod and chips with slaw and some killer beans…

Day 2 of a weight loss session

Jan 29, 2011

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A Social Animal

in Healthy Eating

The good thing about going ‘low carb’ is that all sorts of meat and seafood are ‘fair game’ … Crab for dinner tonight I think…

Jimmy C’s Fish and Chips

Dec 30, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local, Deals and Bargains, Great Local Businesses

Last night, we once again we headed off to Ft.Collins to Jimmy C’s Fish and Chips – the best fish and chips in NoCo – if not Colorado (I love the Haddock – it’s so hard to find in the states)… last night they were having a Heineken promotion – I learned about it in…

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