Technology

I moved the Silicon Valley Days blog to a faster server since the old one was such a dog in terms of posting new stuff. It was pretty easy to do with the backup plug-in and phpmyadmin.

Quicktags.js – customizing the WordPress Text Editor tutorial This video tutorial gives a great step by step procedure on how to modify your Quicktags.js file in WordPress so that you can add custom tags to your WordPress text editor. There was a specific phrase I like inserting into the blog posts for my company blog, … Continue reading »

[H] Enthusiast – AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition Overclocking AMD’s Overdrive application is second to none in the world of software overclocking tools. It is easily used inside of Windows to overclock your BE processor. You can control northbridge and CPU voltages easily while also toggling your CPU’s multiplier. It also has a built in … Continue reading »

For everyone using the Clamav plug-in, I would suggest trying the Sanesecurity 3rd party Clamav signatures to filter out spam. Details on how to install it can be found at this link: http://www.ducea.com/2007/09/18/filter-out-scam-and-phishing-emails-using-sanesecurity-clamav-signatures/ Please note that in OS X that you have to put “sh” before a script to initiate it. Also, with my install, … Continue reading »

Reviews | Asus P5N-E SLI (Page 11 of 11) – APH Networks A big factor is the yellow RAM slots. They cause so much trouble, I don’t even want to get into the details. Stick with the black RAM slots, and life is much, much better. In fact, the majority of odd problems went away … Continue reading »

Over the past two weeks, I’ve replaced the videocards in my home, work and HTPC computers with fanless silent videocards: ASUS N EN7300GT SILENT/HTD/256M for my work computer. I was originally going to put this item in my Sony home computer, but because the heatsink on this card protrudes one centimeter plus off the back … Continue reading »

I installed a Scythe 120 mm S-FLEX SFF21E in my work computer and my new Cosmos 1000 case, and I’m impressed by it’s lack of noise and the amount of air it pushes. They have a very hushed sound, and I’m buying another one for my Antec P150 case which is a component of my … Continue reading »

Fine-tuning SpamAssassin LG #105 Whitelisting is usually done with the settings whitelist_from and whitelist_to. These can be repeated as many times as you like. Simple globbing patterns (see “man bash” and search for “Pattern Matching” for a description) are used to specify wildcard matches. E.g., ‘?’ matches a single character and ‘*’ matches any number … Continue reading »