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Ipstenu on March 5th, 2010

I'm planning a trip to Mississippi (to see some in-laws) and then further on (to see some SCA peeps) and then to California (to see my mom) and then I catch a ball game in Chicago before it's back to Ohio (Taffy again, she's 90) and then .... That was leaving out work [...]

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Ipstenu on February 10th, 2010

Don't get me wrong, I love MediaWiki. It's 'overkill' for what I need, but then again, I wanted a stand-alone 'encyclopedia' where primarily text based articles were listed, without the ability to comment. And until someone can trim WordPress to run as fast as MediaWiki, I'm sticking with it. Well, that [...]

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Ipstenu on January 1st, 2010

I'm going to start out the new year blogging about servers, so if you don't like my techy talks, this is one to avoid.
ClamAV is an tool that you put on your server and it detects malicious software. In short, it's a server virus scanner and most servers use it to scan email [...]

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Ipstenu on September 24th, 2009

I'm going to be upfront and admit that I've never actually liked this plugin. A very large part of me wants to side with Matt Mullenweg in that if you have a good server, configured properly, with a decent host, you should be just fine. Also, it doesn't really work well with [...]

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Ipstenu on July 22nd, 2009

Imagine summing up everything a website is about in a 16x16px square. That's the goal of a favicon (short for favorites icon). Pretty much every site out there has one, and it's a devil of a task to make one that looks appropriate, identifiable and understandable in such a small space. [...]

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