Category Archives: IT

Installing and Updating WordPress with SVN from the Linux CLI

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Stephen

I’ve been using wordpress since the early 2.x releases. One thing that used to get me down was having to apply all the updates to wordpress as they were especially frequent in 2.x release. While wordpress has an automatic update … Continue reading →

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Quick Disk Benchmark for Windows (no setup required)

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Stephen

For a quick benchmark of a local disk, or network share on a Windows computer, there is a small application you can use. It requires no installation or setup. Just download, run the exe, and click “Start”. Wait a few … Continue reading →

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Hetzner vServer (VPS)

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Stephen

Hetzner recently started offering VPS (Virtual Private Servers) since October 2010. Being a Hetzner customer and avidly interested in virtualization, I was keen to find out what setup they had in place and what functionality they offered VPS customers (I’m … Continue reading →

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Thompson Broadband Router (UPC) Model: TWG870

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Stephen

So I recently got 100Mbps Broadband from UPC 🙂 My Cisco EPC2425 got replaced with a Thompson Broadband Router (Model: TWG870UIR). Default Settings Login URL: http://192.168.0.1 Username: <blank> Password: admin SSID: UPC00XXXXX  (AFAIK, the SSID of Thompsons will be in … Continue reading →

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Auto Login, and Logon Messages with XP, Vista, Windows 7

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Stephen

To enable Auto-Login in XP, Vista or Windows 7 START -> run -> control userpasswords2 (In Vista or Windows7, you can go START -> (in the search box) cmd    In the Command type control userpasswords2) (uncheck “Users must enter a user … Continue reading →

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