Redirect WordPress Permalink
I recently moved this blog from a sub-directory to the root directory. Search engines still show the blog front page as the sub-directory (WordPress delivers post links correctly even though…
JavaScript Date Difference Counter
[raw][/raw] A simple JavaScript function that outputs the approximate date difference in years, days, hours, minutes and seconds between the supplied date and now. (It does not account for leap…
Change Grub Default Boot
I have an older PC that dual boots Ubuntu and Windows XP and decided I wanted GRUB to load XP by default instead of Ubuntu. I could not remember how…
ViewState Bloat
Troubleshooting ViewState errors is a big pain! I have one end user who randomly is getting the server error "The state information is invalid for this page and might be…
Custom JavaScript Array Sort
Just a simple bit of JavaScript code that I wanted to share. I had an array of strings representing playing cards and I wanted to sort them from King to…
How To Use Cron to Access Remote Script
From the shell you can use programs like wget and curl to access a remote script, however the same commands would fail when added to crontab. Here are my tips to…
VirtualBox 4.3.20 breaks FreeBSD Xorg
I updated to VirtualBox v4.3.20 (host and guest additions) and whenever I attempt to launch startx or startxfce4 on the guest I only see a blank black screen. The log…
FreeBSD Cannot Boot After Removing Second HDD
I deleted the second virtual disk image from my virtual machine's SATA Controller thinking I could boot and then delete the mount line from /etc/fstab. Wrong! I found the suggestion…
FreeBSD MythTV Backend VirtualBox Guest
After some trial and error, I thought I would share my virtual machine settings and setup tips for a FreeBSD guest running MythTV. I am using VirtualBox on a Windows…
Mythweb 0.27 on Lighttpd
I updated Mythweb to 0.27 and it broke! Well sort of....the mythweb.conf.lighttpd configuration file assumes you are doing a web root install but the port installs to /usr/local/www/mythweb, a sub-directory…