I’m in the midst of trying out a new host for tuxtweaks.com. I’ve moved to a new provider and moved up from shared hosting to a VPS package. I think I’m posting this from the new server and the rest of the world should see it as the new nameservers propagate to the domain name …
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Continue reading Black Friday/Cyber Monday Hosting Deals!I receive a lot of emails with photos attached that have been taken in a portrait orientation. Most modern digital cameras and smart phones have orientation sensors that tell the camera if it’s been turned on end. When this happens, rather than actually rotate the picture, the camera sets a flag in the image’s EXIF …
Continue reading View Images With The Proper EXIF Orientation In Chrome or ChromiumOK, the move to a new server is now complete. Hopefully, having the site on a more powerful server will prevent my account from being suspended due to high server loads. I’m not sure if the site performance will improve at all. Comments are now re-enabled.
Continue reading Server Move CompleteAbout a month ago my brother in-law came to me with his wife’s “dead” Windows XP computer. The computer would not boot at all. After a successful POST, the system would just sit there, unable to find any bootable media. I was asked if I could recover their files for them. Outside of that, they …
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