Archive for the ‘IT Stuff’ Category

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Slow Safari in OSX Lion

I’ve just recently updated my MacBook Pro to OSX Lion. In general I’m pretty happy with it but there were a few issues, relating to speed that really significantly annoyed me. This blog post is to remind me what I did to solve those issues and perhaps if someone else reads them and is helped [...]

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Installing Bugzilla on a CentOS cPanel VPS

This article is designed to hopefully assist someone not have to go over the same troubles as I experienced installing the latest stable Bugzilla onto my cPanel server. To say it gave me a headache is an understatement.
To begin with everything went smoothly. It was all good. I followed the instructions for the Bugzilla installation, [...]

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CS-Cart, A Very Excellent E-Commerce Engine

I’ve been in the Web Development Business now for more years than I care to remember. In that time I’ve worked with plenty of E-Commerce engines, some of which were entirely bespoke before ‘off the shelf’ solutions such as osCommerce or Magento existed.
In more recent years I’ve been using osCommerce. I took a look at [...]

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MacBook Pro Performance running Parallels

Or VirtualBox, and probably VMWare too.
Its been some months now since I made the switch from PC to Mac, using OSX Snow Leopard. Initially I was really pleased with the performance of the MBP, it was considerably quicker on lesser hardware than Vista had ever been. But there was a niggling slowdown on occasions.
It’s fair [...]

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Telstra iPhone Tethering ‘Call Telstra on 125 111 to enable tethering’

If you’re an iPhone user on Telstra’s NextG network you may have been disappointed when iPhone tethering suddenly stopped working back in July or sometime there about, when a new set of ‘Carrier Settings’ were downloaded from iTunes onto your iPhone. The good news is that this weekend just gone, Telstra issued a new set [...]