Its very easy to move your work PPTP VPN from your Windows XP computer to a wireless router running the dd-wrt firmware. DD-WRT firmware runs on most wired and wireless routers on the market today including the ever popular Linksys wrt54g. Once your router has the dd-wrt firmware installed make note if the configuration settings…
Most gems are very easy to install however they have typically been created for a Unix or Linux environment such as CentOS, RedHat, or OS X. This can cause all sorts of issues with libraries, compilers, etc. because less time has been spent making sure that these gems install on all versions of Windows because…
When configuring NGINX with SSL the configuration stated you could have the listen parameter followed by IP:PORT. Initially I attempted to put the below.
It is easy to add static DNS entries to the dd-wrt GUI interface. Follow the below simple steps and then reboot your router. In the below directions the dd-wrt version is v24-sp2. Login: First login to your wired or wireless router that is running dd-wrt software. Open Services: Click the “Services” tab which will default…
MPPE stands for Microsoft Point to Point Encryption. MPPE is used to encrypt data traveling over a PPTP, or Point to Point Tunneling Protocol, connection. When setting up a PPTP connection using DD-WRT firmware on your router there is a blank field to configure MPPE Encryption options in the VPN/PPTP setup. By default the text “mppe…
When pgbench results are provided they are shown as TPS or transactions per second. Below is an example of pgbench being used. bash bash-3.1$ pgbench -Upostgres -s 10 -c 10 -t 3000 pgbench starting vacuum…end. transaction type: TPC-B (sort of) scaling factor: 1 number of clients: 10 number of transactions per client: 3000 number of…
On initial installation of PostgreSQL typically you will also download and install pgAdmin III on your local PC to assist in Postgres management. The pgAdmin GUI will assist in viewing database information quickly, etc. In one of my installations I was not able to connect to the new Postgres installation via pgAdmin and I was…
You can disable Windows XP application errors from being sent to Microsoft. Even though these errors are confidential and will not have your personal information attached to them disabling the errors will stop you from being prompted to send the errors to Microsoft every time something crashes or you kill a process. Also whenever these…
Converting iTunes files or MPEG4 files to MP3 format is easy using the iTunes client. We will want to change the Import Settings which will then allow converting files into the same setting as the Import Settings. Follow the simple steps below and you will be converting your iTunes files to MP3 in no time. iTunes…