A.D.D. In IT

Its been a while since I posted, but I wanted to share a setting that really shouldn't be enabled by default in Firefox.

I had been following various threads on Firefox memory usage, and after installing Firefox 10 I noticed Firefox started with something like 200 MB of RAM but quickly ballooned to some 500 MB after a few tabs open.

After some research, I tried out a setting in the about:config page, and it literally halved my RAM usage, especially with large numbers of tabs.

This is the image.mem.decodeondraw setting in Firefox.

So during normal debugging I've been annoyed quite a bit by a pretty often and randomly appearing error message. It was a HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected. I found several "fixes" for it, but the one I found most effective was actually changing the Maximum Connections allowed by IIS.

In case you're not familiar with Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2), it is a server virtualization system that allows building systems in Amazon's massive IT infrastructure. I'm going to go over some of the features and techniques for building a virtual web server using Amazon's EC2 service.

Getting the iPhone 3G to push emails from Exchange can be quite a challenge. Fortunately, we spent the better part of a day getting things to work correctly. Here are the steps and possibly problems you may encounter while trying to do this.

So this past weekend I was feeling a bit adventurous, and I decided it might be a good idea to give Vista a try. Spending the next 8 hours installing, configuring, and reinstalling (because of a stupid drive order problem), I finally came out with a satisfactorily usable install of Microsoft Windows Vista (SP1). However, there was something that irked the crap out of me.

After about a month of searching for a solution for tape backup software for Windows Server 2008, I think I've finally found something worthy.

A cool little application for Windows users who deal with many programs (read: more than one) would have to be something called Launchy.

So it seems Drupal is just as convoluted as any other CMS system. Between the endless function-following and various other non-standard (read: not a way I would do it, but probably more standard than my way) ways to configure variables, I have finally found a way to get that damned Home link on the primary links without setting a database entry.