Category Archives: Useful

things of use to me, and likely, to you… somehow

Verizon LG Ally; Pre-orders delayed…

Verizon opened pre-orders up last week,  May 20, for the LG Ally. I had just ordered a Droid Eris as Ashley’s Mother’s day present, and when I found out about the pre-order opening, I called in and cancelled the order for the Eris… or so I thought. The next day, I received the Eris. Immediately [...]

Torrent Automation; .torrent creation, WebSeeding, tracker selection

I told my buddy Ben many months ago I would get him setup with a simple way to create torrents for his podcast, The Feeling of Trance. He’s been doing everything manually [BitTornado] for a few years. Not a lot of work, but he’s got a lot going on, so anything that would automate the [...]

Tortoise; How to “SVN UPDATE” using Windows batch files

If you access/store your repositories on Samba shares, but development is done on Windows machines, it can be a headache trying to update your SVN checkout using the Windows cmd. Most of my updates (using Tortoise SVN) are done through the context menus in Windows because of this. I have grown tired of updating each checkout [...]

Vibram Five Finger Shoes; Get the Smell out

For those of you who have smelly shoes, you’ll find this post useful. I have a pair of Vibram Five Finger shoes that I LOVE MORE THAN ANY SHOE EVER, but they get foul once in a while. There are a lot of expensive ways to remedy smelly shoes, but the number one way on [...]

WordPress Update; “Allowed memory size of…” error

Ever go to update WordPress and received this error? Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2516357 bytes) in /home/edm/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1363 That’s because the php.ini is setup to only allocate so much memory to script execution. In this case, my .ini file was set to only allocate 32MB; [...]