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So I find that my MySQL database is running high on CPU all of a sudden. I optimize the tables etc and no difference. I hunt around the internet to find that there seems to be a problem with this years leap second adjustment which sends MySQL into orbit. The solution reset the date date -s “`date`” and it dropped… Continue reading MySQL pegging CPU after the leap second adjustment.
So since upgrading Perl I am presented with qw warnings coming out of the cron job checking that BackupPC is running. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 301. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1412. The way to get rid of these warnings is to enclose qw in parentheses and Perl processes… Continue reading BackupPC Has qw(…) Warnings Since Upgrading Perl
Zotac ION-ITX-F Originally uploaded by paulfarrow After putting a power meter on my home entertainment system realised that my equipment was using a lot of power 350 watts at peak. So thought I would do some investigation into a recent low power mini-itx board from Zotac. I chose this one because it was dual core and it has a pci-express… Continue reading Zotac ION-ITX-F Wi-Fi Dual Core 1.6GHz Atom N330 Mini-ITX Motherboard with PCI Express x16 With Windows 7 Home Premium
Since upgrading to firefox 3.5, I couldnt login any more to my wordpress (currently 2.7) blog. It was wierd as I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on my apple running OS-X 10.5 and I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on Vista. But I could login on my clients machine running firefox 3.5 on Windows XP. What seemed to be the… Continue reading Firefox 3.5 and WordPress – Cant Login
if you go to the barclaysstockbrokers.com url and try to login you get presented with an invalid security certificate error by firefox and ie 8. The certificate is for www.stockbrokers.barclays.com not www.barclaysstockbrokers.com. I have rang them and emailed them but no one seems that interested in getting fixed they dont see it as a problem. Well in these days of… Continue reading Barclays Stockbrokers Have An Invalid Security Certificate
My last upgrade of my media center included a blu-ray media player, it was a cheap LG player although wasn’t as cheap as they are today. This was bought a few years back when they first came out but didn’t install it for some time until now. Well I thought Vista was bound to support blu-ray and didnt think anything… Continue reading Vista, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player And Blu-Ray DVD's
All of a sudden the places map isnt showing just a grey screen. Everything I tried just didnt get it to show any more. Eventually I found a solution that worked. I went to preferences -> advanced and set the dont look up places automatically to never. Quit Iphoto and restarted it. I then set it back to automatic and… Continue reading IPhoto9 – Places Map Not Showing
Just got the new Macbook Pro and after transferring from my old Macbook it seemed it couldnt actually set the time correctly was always an hour behind. The problem was actually the timezone as it just said GMT in the closest city. After a little bit of tickering I realised that that the localtime folder should be a symbolic link… Continue reading 13 Inch MacBook Pro – Time Is Wrong
Ok go to your applications folder on your mac within the finder window. Right click the iphoto application icon and click show contents. Browse to the plugins folder and look for a folder named the same as the exporter your looking to remove. Delete the folder that is the same name as the exporter your trying to delete and bobs… Continue reading How Can I Remove That IPhoto Export Plugin ? Such as Facebook IPhoto Exporter.
Ok so searched high and low for this and finally found out that it was my theme that I had added which was wrong. Look for feed_rss2.php in wp-includes and look for some code in there, that uses use_excerpt_rss my theme used this whether the rss setting->full (rather than summary) was selected or not in the settings->reading. If you change… Continue reading WordPress RSS Feed Not Including Images