Category Archives: how-to

Attack of the killer robots

Today I had  someone ask me how to keep bots off of their forum. They were seeing a noticed slowdown in the site when it was being indexed.  That and they don’t want their “crazy cat lady talk” indexed on Google.
So here goes: if you want to keep Google off of your site - the [...]

Fixing the PHP Allowed Memory Size Exchausted Fatal Error in WordPress

When I logged on to post an update today, I was greeted with the error message:
Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 208834 bytes) in /public_html/*
(where * represented the path to any file in the wp-admin portion of one of my blogs). The content/end-user portion of the blogs were showing up just [...]

converting video

This weekend my wife asked me to help her put together some videos for her cooking website. Since I was playing with Adobe Premiere Elements anyways, I thought it would be no problem at all. My outlook changed once she gave me all of the source videos - they were all in DiVX or [...]

TestOut vs. Examsaver - a tale of two CBTs

So I’m in the process of preparing to take my A+ exams (along with one of my employees as kind of a buddy challenge) and my MCSE, as we’re ready to wave goodbye to NetWare. Trying to squeeze both in at once has been a bit of a challenge, so I thought I’d [...]

Enabling add-ons with Firefox beta

Firefox has released 3.0b1 and I’ve been eagerly awaiting a version that leaked less memory than a sieve, so I thought I’d give it a go. After downloading it, I was very impressed with it’s performance and styling updates. What didn’t impress me was the lack of add-ons. I mean, how can [...]