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Slow on Updates…Being Confused…

Kimmo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:23:43 +0000

I always thought of my site as a public notepad. I guess I have once again regressed back to putting notes in Notepad.exe and putting URLs and binaries to a web drive that no one, except perhaps me, benefits of.

It’s not like I’ve been personally doing anything fancy, I’m just gathering and building upon other peoples achievements. I’m having a bit of a rough time as my interest sphere is quite over encompassing and feeling a bit uncertain of where to at technology wise – what to consult, what to advice…I’m not sure, I’m confused and I’m undecided. Certainly my work-life points me to a certain direction, and that’s a relief, but at the same time, real-life and autistic interest point to a much broader direction.

That’s my random thought

Visual Effects in Windows 2003/XP

Kimmo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:55:31 +0000

This yet another dump of old stuff

Over the years there have been a lot of talk about tuning the Visual Effects settings in a Terminal Server environment, more recently the same talk in XP VDI scenarios. I guess I never quite understood the fuzz, except that the common suggestion of VisualFXSetting”= (your preference) doesn’t really do anything

For clarification, this is what I’m talking about:

My Computer | Properties | Advanced
-> Performance | Settings | Visual Effects

Here’s a deliverable for some customer some time ago.
Oh yeah, it’s not my batch. I found the batch when I resarched the matter. I made slight modifications to meet the demand. All credit to the original author.

VisualEffects.zip

Set Default Optimized Values for Windows 2003

Kimmo — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:50:41 +0000

This is straightforward from the trenches. Windows 2003 is showing age, but is still widely used.

I commented the settings with a KB article, when available. Even to my best effort some things got undocumented, such as the Microsoft Performance Team suggestions (NoRemoteChangeNotify is not included, I had that as an option in my .adm template, but people turned on that setting without knowing… see KB 831129 for more info. Quite for the same reasons I left the TCP offloading stuff commented away)

standard.zip

Delete Revisions from WordPress DB

Kimmo — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:17:03 +0000

I ran into this revisions annoyance in WordPress…It’s no problem to turn off the beast, but rather to clean out the existing revisions from the DB.

Luckily others also get annoyed. Andrei Neculau cooked up a nice sql query that took care of the leftovers

DELETE a,b,c

FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = 'revision'

Moved over to WordPress

Kimmo — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:49:59 +0000

So, I got tired of the old CMS and after having evaluated a few alternatives I decided to use WordPress. The feature set (over)matched the simple needs of this site. WordPress is simple yet powerfull.

First thing that strikes is that a theme is not the usual replaceable chrome – It’s more or less the actual (presenting) engine. This quite rapidly gets extremely enerving and limiting. Sooner than quick I retardate (sic) to merely removing annoyances instead of utilizing and empowering what’s there.

However, given the generic other options, or even by itself, the benefits way overmatches the limitations, for me, now.