Posted on Thu 08 January 2015 in WebDev & Code
We have a tradition where I live. We celebrate being alive with a party and that party generally coincides with being alive for another 31,557,600 seconds. 31,557,600 seconds happens to be just about equal to a solar year, which is a happy co-incidence as it's not …
Posted on Sat 22 November 2014 in WebDev & Code
Alternative title: How I got multiple cups-pdf printers on the same server. (I didn't, but postprocessing let me work around the problem).
Preamble:
I have a small business. For years we've been creating PDFs from any computer on our network through a "virtual appliance' called YAFPC ("Yet Another Free PDF …
Posted on Thu 02 October 2014 in WebDev & Code
In my sunspot.yml I used a FQDN ( solr.rkbb.co.uk ). Solr was slow
When I used the server IP (10.18.6.224). Solr was fast.
I've been slowing working on some improvements to our business system at …
Posted on Mon 05 May 2014 in WebDev & Code
I wouldn't have noticed them doing this except google told me. That does beg the question, if I was buying something on a website and didn't notice the redirect from HTTPS to HTTP, could other people on the hot spot be snooping my transactions?
I guess BT have a good …
Posted on Tue 22 April 2014 in WebDev & Code
In an earlier post I showed how I set my screenshots to save in a custom folder rather than onto my desktop (I seem to take a lot of screenshots). I also shared a little camera icon that I made for it. One of the comments asked how I changed …