If anyone every asks you for a question that could only be asked by a true Geek, please consider this one: “Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter?” I can think of none better. Although these size-comparison posters are a close second.
Read more →Search Engine Optimization (SEO) companies promise big money (for those using their services, naturally). They toss around figures about tens of millions of online searches every day that could be generating thousands of dollars in revenue, but only if your site ranks high enough on searches – only if you act now, no time...
Read more →This is an enhancement to a thread that originally started on thwack: Since NPM 10.1.x, everyone has enjoyed the ability to use AD groups rather than individual user accounts. Yay for NPM. But now in NCM, we have to somehow validate all these “new” users in NCM. Users who might not even have logged...
Read more →One of my customers alerted me to the fact that permalinks (such as the “recent posts” section on the sidebar) weren’t working on a sub-blog on their multisite installation. Instead they got a “Page not found” error. I did a quick bit of poking around and found that none of the permalinks on any...
Read more →About a million years ago (in computer time), I was sitting in a large hall with a couple hundred other computer professionals, watching a demonstration of a revolutionary new software – Dragon Dictate, which promised to allow you not only to dictate text into a word preocessor, but to also interact with the computer,...
Read more →(Originally posted on www.thwack.com here) This is the third in a series of posts where, in the name of giving back to the community, I’m going to share some of the customizations that make SolarWinds a little more robust for us and our customers. First, a little background about my company and how we...
Read more →I’m participating in an online discussion about Thwack – the online community and resource for SolarWinds professionals. And they asked for directions to my blog, so I wanted to get a big old welcome message. Shout out to Jay, Crystal, JR, Bill, Steve/JR, Andrew, and our awesome meeting organizer Kelly!
Read more →One of my clients runs a modest sales site… (cough! shamelessly promoting bathroomonkey.com! cough!) …and today was apparently upgraded Wednesday. Both WordPress (3.1.2) and WP-ecommerce (3.8.2) needed to be updated. Problem 1: The WordPress failed with “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of…”. I tried the php.ini trick (it had worked for me in the...
Read more →This is the second part of a 3 part series I posted over on www.thwack.com about ways to make their premier toolset – Solarwinds Orion network performance manager (NPM) jump through hoops. You can find the first post here (or on Thwack, here) This is the second in a series of posts where, in...
Read more →The Problem I’ve got a client with a multi-site installation of WordPress, who decided they needed to email both newsletters and individual blog posts not only from the main site, but from each sub-site as well. MailPress seemed like the best choice, so I went with it. Installing and (Network) activating the plugin went...
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