My Personal Tech Blog
8am – Look at scheduled tasks I have many repetitive tasks scheduled on the calendar in my business email. On a typical Monday morning usually a handful of tasks have become due. Most of these tasks don’t take much time and are related to maintenance chores, housekeeping, backups, etc. I
Continue readingThis post will eventually detail everything you need to do to export Network Solutions products into WooCommerce formats for importing. I wanted to start this post now even though it’s unfinished, so I can collect some feedback if this sort of thing is something more people are needing. There are
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I’ve seen some posts online from people who claim to be missing their Yahoo mailing list tool. For some strange reason, Yahoo Mail collapses the contact list area, preventing you from creating a contact list, or group, or mailing list, or whatever you want to call it. When you have
Continue readingIf you want to know what folder (in Linux), that PHP is using for temps, you can always check the php.ini. However, the setting for temp folder is often commented out, leaving the “system default” as the folder of choice. But what is that? One way is to just type
Continue readingIf you find that mysqld.exe in Windows with WAMPSERVER is using a lot of RAM, this may help. I have WAMPSERVER 2.4 installed with MySQL 5.6.12 as you can see here: The mysqld.exe process is taking almost 500MB of RAM! This has to do with a high default
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This little trick can be found a thousand places online. I wanted to share it for my own safe-keeping.
Continue readingIt’s just one of those days! I began receiving emails like this: Database error in vBulletin myversion: Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO searchcore_text (searchcoreid, keywordtext) VALUES ( 1584876, ‘ SOME TEXT WAS HERE.’ ) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE searchcoreid = VALUES(searchcoreid), keywordtext = VALUES(keywordtext); MySQL Error : Table ‘./mydatabase/searchcore_text’ is marked
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Continue readingThe latest update of Avast made a problem for me at work when it updated to the latest 2014 version. Suddenly networked computers were not able to communicate, could not ping them by IP or netBIOS name, host unreachable, timeouts etc. After spending a couple hours changing every setting I
Continue readingHere is a quick tip for those of you with Chrome who often use webpages and wish there was a Desktop version. Or basically, if you are annoyed with having to run a website in a tab all day, or whatever! Anyway, Chrome has a feature to create an “Application
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