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	<title>kieranbarnes &#187; Linux</title>
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		<title>SSH Timeouts on DOCSIS 3 (Virgin Media 50Mb, 100Mb, 120Mb)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since moving to Virgin's 120Mb Broadband my SSH connections would drop after 30 seconds of inactivity. This made some grey hairs appear on the side of my head. This happens due to the way Virgin handle the Internet traffic on their DOCSIS 3 network, as opposed to lower broadband speeds that use the DOCSIS 1 [...]
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		<title>Automatic Photo Blogging with WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest WordPress challenge was to automate a photo blog site. The photo blog post content would just consist of a title and a featured image. No content. As per normal photo blog style sites. This solution takes an image at random from a folder and posts it in WordPress. It relies on a healthy [...]
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		<title>Server Side PNG Optimisation with TimThumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little known feature of TimThumb is that is supports server side PNG optimisation. Using the OptiPNG program (Available for Linux and Windows) TimThumb can losslessly compress PNGs on the fly. Quick tests showed an original clients PNG came in at  671Kb, OptiPNG compressed that with no visible difference to 580Kb and nominal server load. So lets [...]
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		<title>Caching TimThumb images in memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TimThumb, properly configured &#38; secured is a very useful tool for image manipulation. Amidst all it's old security flaws, the new version is pretty secure. Sometimes it can be pretty slow though. By default it only caches images for 24 hours. Probably not long enough if you are just creating static thumbnails of larger images [...]
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		<title>MySQL 5.0 or 5.1 to 5.5 Upgrade Traumas on CentOS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Remi Repo is a yum repository maintained by a French dude - Remi Collet. It contains much more up to date packages (January 2012) such as MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.3. Heres how I installed it on CentOS. &#160; This file provides configuration for remi and remi-test repositories. Note: The repository is not enabled on install [...]
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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