VPS.NET Tokyo cloud launched

Our Tokyo cloud is launched! Its free! http://t.co/ET2a2zf ^RF
September 14, 2011 6:17 am via CoTweetReplyRetweetFavorite
@vpsnet
VPS.NET

We are pleased to announce the new beta of our Japan cloud (Tokyo). We are offering old and new customers up to 9 beta nodes for free to test out the location.

Highlights include:
- The fastest, most technically advanced enterprise class SAN within all of our clouds
- Full support for Windows and Linux
- Full OnApp 2.2 support will be enabled during the beta
- Its Free!

VPS.NET just launched their Tokyo cloud today in beta. According to them, this new cloud features an all-new SAN deployment which will resolve issues like their recent (and not only) 50h downtime + customer data loss. SAN failures have been a major issue at VPS.NET during the last year and many customers who didn’t had their own backup strategy lost all their data because of file corruption after a SAN crash (hint: don’t rely on VPS.NET backups -unless R1Soft- and always have your own backup strategy!)

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TinyMCE non-latin character support on CS-Cart

Just managed to fix TinyMCE Greek character support on CS-Cart 2.2.1 :-)
September 12, 2011 8:37 am via Twitter for MacReplyRetweetFavorite
@georgetasioulis
George Tasioulis

Wasn’t really that big of a deal after all :-)

First I downloaded the updated TinyMCE package (v.3.4.4) The Tool posted on the CS-Cart forums here for my CS-Cart installation (v.2.2.1).
Then using a text editor I opened up lib/js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js for editing, searched for entity_encoding and changed it from named to raw.
You may find quite a few instances of the string entity_encoding in the file, but the correct one to change is this:

validate:true,entity_encoding:"named",url_converter:p.convertURL

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Kevin Rose on Chartbeat

i'm addicted to chartbeat, wish i would have invested, it's fun to see how many people are traversing your site in real-time
September 10, 2011 6:48 am via Twitter for MacReplyRetweetFavorite
@kevinrose
Kevin Rose

Chartbeat is indeed an amazing tool which can easily get you addicted into watching your website’s visitors come and go in real-time – all day long. I used it in a little side-project of mine, so I had a second screen setup in portrait orientation and was like 10hrs/day doing nothing other than watching Chartbeat. Good thing the project only lasted 2 days :-)

How To: Add Social Buttons to Squarespace

A few days ago I helped @tpsaras install social widgets to his Squarespace based foodblog Foodzine. Although Squarespace allows for a seamless implementation of social widgets, the catch here was to display them only under each post and not on the homepage.

First we had to create the necessary code for our Facebook and Twitter widgets, then add the code into HTML Snipsets via the Squarespace Website Management and finally hide the buttons from the homepage via CSS.

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Stress testing WordPress on a single node VPS

Lately I’ve been trying to find a cheap close-to-perfect-but-not-so-difficult-to-setup solution for my personal blog. A kind of “set and forget” thing if you will.
Until now, my blog was running on a Dell Dual-Xeon /w 2GB RAM cPanel server (along with a few other sites) and was working pretty smooth. Based on pingdom’s full page test my blog needed 6-7 seconds to fully load which is kind of acceptable considering the theme, the twitter/flickr integration on the sidebar and the needed dns queries to contact facebook, google analytics and woopra servers.

Last night bestvpscloud from the VPS.NET forums pointed out to this script that installs nginx, php5, mysql, exim4 and wordpress on low-end VPS servers, and after reading the comments I got to this guy’s blog who also suggested adding the dotdeb.org repository and upgrade to PHP 5.3.

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How To: Reveal Hidden Passwords in Firefox

Today I wanted to replace my router and realized that I don’t remember my ISP’s username and password. Like in any router’s web interface, the ISP’s password is saved behind asterisks (or dots in case of Windows Vista/7) but there’s an easy way to reveal this password in Firefox:

Just paste the following code in your browsers address bar when you’re on the page that displays the username and password of your connection and press Enter.

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How To: Use the Apple Magic Mouse on your Windows PC

The Magic Mouse is SEX IN THE FORM OF A MOUSE! A client just gave me one as a present. Best client, EVER! :D
March 1, 2010 5:08 pm via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite
@jimeh
Jim Myhrberg

Back in October 2009, Apple released the Magic Mouse, the first pointing device with a multi-touch surface. Like with the iPod or the iPhone, you interact with the device using gestures. And of course like with any other mouse, you can click it: The mouse itself is the button!

The Magic Mouse

I bought the Magic Mouse from the London Apple Store during a quick trip there and because my previous mouse was a Logitech MX518, when I first started using the Magic Mouse I got a little bit disappointed by the lack of precision when trying to do some very detailed work. Getting it to work with Windows 7 is not that difficult, all you have to do is follow the simple steps of this how-to.

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