Posts Tagged “irishblogs”

Mount box.net drives in Linux

I was one of the lucky few to receive a 50GB upgrade from box.net, (or box.com where they now live, marketing fail?) when I installed their Android app. I don’t have a use for that much storage on my phone but on my desktop machines? Oh yes! This forum post describes in detail how to [...]

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WP Super cache 1.1

This is a bugfix release of the full page caching plugin WP Super Cache for WordPress. Not much has changed in the week or so since I asked for testers but in case you missed that post here are the changes since 1.0: Use $_SERVER[ 'SERVER_NAME' ] to create cache directories. No more non existant [...]

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My early memories of programming

My earliest memories of programming are directly related to the pain of not being able to save my work. The first proper computer my family owned was a Commodore Vic-20. I guess my parents bought it in 1984 or 1985 but it might have been earlier. The Vic-20 came out years before but this was [...]

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Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted

WordPress uses memory. Plugins and themes use memory. New versions of software may use more memory than before. When that happens and PHP on your server doesn’t have enough memory then PHP will stop with a fatal error like this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1203208 bytes) in [...]

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Welcome to Life

Tom Scott looks at what a corporate sponsored and controlled afterlife might be like. Creepy. That’s why you must choose The Pirate Bay as your primary healthcare provider.

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Super Cache for the Weekend

WP Super Cache 1.0 came out several months ago and while it worked fine for most people there’s always room for improvement and bug fixes. Here are some of the bug fixes and improvements coming in the next version which I plan on releasing next week. There are a lot of changes there so if [...]

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BF3 vs TF2

Who wins when two great games collide?

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Will swap voice and texts for data

I hardly ever use up the monthly voice minutes and texts on my phone. Apparently carriers make more and more of their revenue from their customer’s data usage. Glad I’m near wifi most of the day! What about you?

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Harness racing on Cork’s roads

Two harness racers on the Cork to Mallow road defying Garda attempts to stop them and driving against traffic on a very busy road. Crazy guys, crazy. More on Reddit and Silicon Republic. This comment has received too many negative votes Look lads there are races on that road all the time with horses and [...]

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Why so skeptical?

In a few years time, there may well be no rhinos left alive. And when I say no rhinos, I do not mean “none left in the wild”. I mean none in the zoos either. The captive animals will have been killed too. The reason for this is an insatiable desire among some people for [...]

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Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache