Posts Categorized "Guides"

How I use Pingdom’s HTTP Custom Feature

One of the biggest annoyances to me when doing research on the internet is when I find an enticing summary from a search engine query, but, when I try to access the resource, the website is not accessible because [the database server was down | enter your reason here]. This is why for the year of 2009, I am going to be more proactive in monitoring my server’s reliability. Read more

Wordpress HTTP Error with Nginx

While trying to upload a 4mb PDF file using the Wordpress 2.7 media manager, I received a very unhelpful “HTTP Error” message. I found several references to mod_security being the problem, but that was for Apache setups. I finally stumbled on the true error by using the Browser uploader instead of the flash uploader. The real error message was Read more

Dropbox: Synchronization that Works

If you read my post about keeping 2 Macs synchronized back in July, you may have left disappointed because I didn’t offer a solution that worked. Well, I can finally resolve that issue now.

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Getting Around a College Firewall (Windows Edition)

This is a continuation of the getting around a college firewall and bandwidth throttling how to geared for Windows. I’ll walk you through setting up an encrypted SSH tunnel and a local SOCKS server on Microsoft Windows. Keep in mind

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Installing Windows Vista 64-bit on an iMac

I am surprised to discover that 64-bit Windows Vista is not supported on the latest iMacs. The hardware to support it is all there and it even runs on the Mac Pros and MacBook Pros so I would have thought the same would apply to the iMac, but alas this is not the case. There is one very big reason to use the 64-bit version over 32-bit: memory. The 32-bit version of Windows Vista supports a maximum of 4GB of RAM but it will not fully utilize it. Mark Russinovich from Sysinternals explains the reason for this on his blog. Basically, with a 512MB Video card that would leave me with 3.5GB of usable RAM at most.

After quite a bit of research and trial and error I was finally able to get 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate running on my iMac. So, without further ado, here’s how. Read more