This write-up is on a Viper 350 Plus that I install last week. The goal of this system was to have power door locks and keyless entry, but I found that buying a complete alarm system cost little more than buying just a keyless entry system. Personally I don’t give a hoot about the alarm …
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Windows Live Writer
The next phase in the experiment is to play around with some editors. At the moment, I’m testing ‘Windows Live Writer’. Installation was fairly easy from Microsoft’s site with a few caveats. The installer automatically tries to install a bunch of Microsoft bloatware that I didn’t want (Mail, etc). It also wants to set my …
Read MoreCinemaTube
The CinemaTube BV-5005HD is a standalone media player with HDMI 1080p output. First, some background on my particular application. I always wanted a DVD jukebox so that I could store all of my DVDs in one location and watch them at will without having to chase down a DVD and insert it into the player. …
Read MoreOptiming wordpress with WP-Cache
In the last entry, I was fretting over lousy database performance adversely affecting wordpress. Since then I had a chance to install WP-Super-Cache and evaluate the effects. I’m operating it in “half cache” mode at the moment, and may try operating it in full cache mode later. This benchmark ran for approximately 8 hours and …
Read MoreGodaddy database / wordpress performance
This site is in part a great big experiment to see if I want to a) change all of my hosting over to godaddy and b) use wordpress as a publishing platform. My initial impressions were good as wordpress seems like a usable platform. I was able to port many of the pages from my …
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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