Want to automatically display an image for each post in your custom Wordpress theme without resorting to custom fields or asking the writer to jump through any hoops? How about displaying one size on the home page and another for the "single" pages?
Webloc files are the handy little URL "aliases" that Mac OSX makes when you drag a URL from your web browser into a file folder. I've used them quite a…
Does your home internet access take forever to go to websites getting stuck at the phrase, “Looking up site www.185vfx.com” in the status bar?
I stumbled across a fix…
I discovered an amazing “bug” in excel tonight. I needed to create a copy of part of a spreadsheet into a new sheet. See if you can spot the difference between the original on the left and the new spreadsheet on the right:
You’ll notice that the dates are off by exactly 4 years and 1 day after a simple cut-and-paste into a fresh spreadsheet. It took a little while to figure out why this was happening.
Every once in a while, emails get stuck in my webserver’s mail queue behind a backlog of spam. Here are a few useful commands from this article to push the legit mails that are hanging out in /var/spool/mqueue/:
About 10 years ago we were curious to see how our SGI’s stacked up against other processors in terms of rendering power. We chose a “highly complicated” scene to render with PovRay since it was available for many systems and collected the results.
We just recently re-ran the benchmark on a modern computer and you’ll notice the update at the top of the table. (more…)
