Author: Vivi The Mage
I was looking for a nice way to implement Google AdSense, well, I looked through about 6 of them, and found my favorite.
Quick AdSense by TechMilieu! www.techmilieu.com/quick-adsense
The guys at Quick AdSense are not giving me anything, nor do they know I am posting this. I just wanted to say what my favorite AdSense implementation plugin for WordPress was.
It allows you to easily put ads where you want, how you want. I especially loved the ease of widget use. I have it running on my site now, see for yourself!
I just purchased an OCZ Agility 2 OCZSSD2-2AGTE60G for my server, and got rid of my 2x320GB RE3 WD drives. I made sure it had the latest 1.24 firmware on it.
These first marks are AHCI
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These are IDE
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you can definitely see an improvement over AHCI. As usual, short and sweet post, with raw numbers, enjoy. If you want me to test something else, let me know.
I just found this out, so it’s time to pass it on!
If you lose your iphone, ipad, or ipod frequently, you can use mobileME to locate/wipe/lock/send messages/tones(2 minute long! Helpful if you lose it around the house). You can also use the Find My iPhone application, to search any devices attached to your account that you set up. You can use Find my iPhone for free with iphone4, ipad, or 4th generation ipod touches that have iOS 4.2 installed. If not, you can use the paid subscription. Here is the link on how to set up the free account :
http://www.apple.com/iphone/find-my-iphone-setup/
Hopefully this helps someone out :).
update :
You can create a free Find My iPhone account on any iPhone 4, iPad, or iPod touch (4th generation) running iOS 4.2. Once you create an account on a qualifying device, use your Apple ID and password to enable Find My iPhone on your other devices running iOS 4.2. Find My iPhone is not available in all countries.
Great news if your spouse/children/siblings are using a 3GS/3G! There’s also a way around it if you only have a 3GS, have a friend with an iphone4 log in and set your free account up for you. If you need more details, ask, and I shall post.
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First Minnesota snowfall!
This post is definitely not PC related … the first Minnesota snowfall! This was taken with my iphone4, nothing special, just wanted to snap a shot…HDR on.
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Test your typing skills!
I found this site : typingtest.com, it’s a fun way of testing how quickly you can read, and type what you read. It’s not really a true test, because you do not typically type what you are reading, more of what you type is what you are thinking. This is the score I got :
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Now try and beat it :).
We have a few Dell PE-860’s for lease! These are racked/server hardware, not cheapo desktops components. We have rackspace in Continuum in Chicago, and our servers can be deployed in about 1-2 hours.
Test IP : 74.119.217.9
We are leasing these servers for $200 a month, they come with free cPanel, remote reboot, 5TB bandwidth on a 100MB port.
X3220 – Quad Core 2.4GHZ
8GB DDR2
160GB x 2
Hardware Raid Card – We can do Raid 1, or Raid 0.
FREE cPanel license
10 IP Addresses
5TB on a 100MB port
FREE Remote Reboot
We have a few 1TB, and 500GB HDD’s in stock, if you’re looking to upgrade drives for a little extra money.
We also have the options to install ESXi, Windows, any distro Linux, etc.
We have addon options such as Cisco Firewalls, Management servers, Monitoring Services.
If you’re have any questions, please email sales@madgenius.com, or PM me and we can chat.
~Anthony
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Costa Rica Driving Map
If you’ve ever wanted to drive through Costa Rica, I stumbled upon this great looking website that gives you GREAT drive times/mappings in Costa Rica :
http://www.yourtravelmap.com/
Once you enter the site, click on the fuzzy looking map right in the center of the website.
This is what the image you need to click on looks like :
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I plan on using this for my 10 day trip in January, and I am hoping it’ll help out anyone else who goes.
We, at madgenius.com, are in the midst of testing out a cloud solution for our VPS services … I will definitely keep posted on the specifics, once we’re live.
Features :
– Automatic Failover if hardware issues should arise
– Windows/Linux deployments in under 60 seconds
– All new web based control panel
– Run on XEN technology
I had someone ask me to benchmark my WD 2TB elements drive. It might be useful to someone else, this is running on USB 2.0.
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