I was the IT Director for a chain of portrait studios. Each store had 8-10 computers and a server that housed all of the pictures. Each computer ran Express Digital to proof the customer and a point of sale system that I wrote specifically for that company. We opened new stores every year, and this […]
I bought a laptop today. It’s a Dell Inspiron 1520 with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz processor, 3GB of memory, 1680×1050 15.4 inch screen, 250GB hard drive, a webcam (that I’ll probably never use), and X3100 integrated video card for $950.
The only thing I wish was better is the video card; however, […]
I wrote an article today on my nature photography blog about backing up photographs, and I think the article applies here as well. Instead of just photographs though, the same concepts could be applied for any important files especially the information about Symantec Ghost. If you’re not regularly backing up your files, this […]
I’m pleased to announce that the 3rd revision of The Lens Flare is now live. The Lens Flare is a large friendly community of artists and photographers who use the site to upload images, share ideas, and learn from each other. It’s located at http://www.thelensflare.com
The new features include:
More Images: Up to 500 images on the […]
This is more of a set of modifications rather than an actual module, but the end result is the same.
First thing you’ll need to do is backup your existing site and database. I’d recommend using a test install of Xcart so that nothing in production gets messed up. With that in mind, the first […]
If you want to copy files to another computer, it’s more secure to use scp (secure copy) than ftp.
Using SCP:
scp -pr * username@example.net:destination_path
In the command, -p stands for “preserve”, in other words, it keeps the last modified time, access time, etc the same, and -r recursively copies subdirectories.
Using Rsync:
If you want to just […]
If you’re getting started with Ruby on Rails, one of the better platforms to program in is Eclipse largely due to RadRails and the SVN plugin called Subclipse. Eclipse and the community versions of the plugins are free, so it’s definitely worth taking a look at.
This article is assuming that you have a working […]
At home, I run Windows XP x64, and I’ve had a tough time finding an antivirus program that will work on this operating system. I waited a year for McAfee or Symantec to come out with a version for this OS, but as of yet, neither of them had one that I could […]
Over the past week, there have been 10 separate attempts to do a brute force attack on my server. Each day, I’d check my logs and manually ban the IP address responsible for the attempted crack. They’ve been attempting to break in through SSH and FTP.
While they didn’t succeed in breaking in, they did […]
My secure and messages log files were getting really big, and after analyzing them to see if there was a reason, I decided to clear them out.
To do so, I first typed: cat > messages, then typed a couple of blank lines, and hit control-c to quit. I did the same for […]