Posted by Benjamin Close on June 3, 2015 under Computers | 
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This article talks about the wordpress plugin gravityforms and how the fileupload mysteriously may break when a license expires. I was working for a company a little while back which made heavy use of wordpress. They company used gravity forms for a number of different submission. They had a licensed version of gravity forms which [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on April 30, 2012 under Computers, Money | 6 Comments to Read
This article gives an overview of how you could increase your search ranking in Google. First a little background.. A while back I visited a Nursery that grew Advanced Trees in South Australia, after talking to the owner for a little while we got on the topic of website and how he was trying to [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on March 21, 2012 under Computers | Read the First Comment
A Long time ago I was watching a story about data and one fact that rang in my mind was how much data was in transit at anyone point in time. A classic way to think about this is a transatlantic fibre cable. Even at the speed of light, the amount of data that is [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on March 1, 2012 under FreeBSD | 3 Comments to Read
This page explains how to use a USB2.0 device in VirtualBox with a FreeBSD 8+ as a hostOS Recently I got around to converting my last Linux box over to FreeBSD. The change over for almost everything was smooth except for one thing. A windows virtual machine. I have a number of applications which sadly [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on May 6, 2011 under OpenSource, Programming | Be the First to Comment
This article details a reason libdc1394_video_set_mode/libdc1394_video_set_framerate may not work. Whilst working on an application that makes use of a 1394a/firewire camera I found a strange bug/feature with libdc1394. The problem was dc1394 was being used to the mode of the camera to 800×600 resolution. However, when querying the frame size after dequeuing the frame, the [..more..]
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This article describes a possible reason glTexSubImage2D may be slow. Recently I was working on a piece of code that updated a texture with a camera frame. The application was using the fixed function (non shaders) pipeline of OpenGL. Whilst I didn’t notice it at first, I soon found that the camera image was very [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on February 23, 2011 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment
Hi Folks, as of today https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ should now no longer give any warnings in a browser. The SSL certificate being provided by StartCom for free. Manythanks to StartCom for their Free SSL certificate service!
Posted by Benjamin Close on January 21, 2011 under OpenSource | 33 Comments to Read
Recently a colleague of mine came to me with a problem he was having with SSL certificates and the web server Apache 2.2. Put simply Apache (httpd) would not start. It was an unusual situation as this server had been running flawlessly for almost 2 years and it was only a recent power outage that [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on December 10, 2010 under Computers | 225 Comments to Read
This article details how to use a Belkin FSU409 USB to Serial Converter under Windows Vista/Windows 7 64bit
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 13, 2010 under Computers, Country Living, wireless | 9 Comments to Read
Having moved into our new home, it was time to get internet access up and running. We have no fixed phone line and with us both having mobile phones had no intention to get one. Hence we began looking into what wireless options were available. Eventually we settled on a 3G wireless mobile broad band [..more..]
