Optimizing

After the recent update of WordPress 2.8 I have become aware that my site had an unreasonably long load time. In my search for the answer to my problem I look through various wordpress optimizing blogs, who recommended more or less the same

• De-activate unused plugins
• Reduce the number of HTTP requests
• Use WP-Cache
• Enable GZip with WP-Cache

I found a bunch of plugins that I did not really need, which reduced my load time a great deal. However, I found that I no longer had access to WP-cache and WP-Tweaks, which I had previously enabled. So I removed them from my server, and suddenly I went from a responds time 36 sec to below 10 sec! I Do not know if others experience the same kind of problems, but I thought I would be worth sharing.

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Eliminating the prejudices and misunderstandings

About four years ago, August 2005, my second laptop failed me for the third time and I had to go back to the shop to get it repaired. Between three and five weeks everytime I had to have the PC repaired and I was completely feed up with Windows, PC computers and shops promising fast, stabile computers running with no problems what so ever. How could any company with pride sell products that constantly failed or software with numerous errors. This certainly did not help my frustration.

At this time I started looking at Apple computers. The really looked good and I tried a MacBook at one of my buddies. He was all frantic about it. Talked about all the amazing stuff that was possible with this kind of machine. In my mind he sounded like some kind of preacher trying to commit me to his mac-religion. I asked him if I could sit down for a while and mess around with his mac. (more…)

Tags: Apple, MacBook Pro, Macboy, OS X, Windows
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Den højreorienterede Nikolaj Wammen

Sankt Hans Aften 2009 en dag beriget med solskin og fantastisk vejr. Århus by dufter af grillmad og solbrændte glade mennesker sidder spredt over hele Århus ved de traditionelle steder for Sankt Hans bålet.

I Jyllands-Posten kan man læse at den ellers så hyggelige og rigtig besøgte hekseafbrænding ved Tangkroen i år er aflyst, og at Århus borgmester i stedet vil holde sin tale i Tivoli Friheden.

I indgangen til Tivoli Friheden bliver vi gjort opmærksom på at prisen fortsat er uændret for at kommer til Sankt Hans aften i Tivoli Friheden, og det på trods af at Nikolaj Wammen holder sin tale i forlystelsesparken. Det er i sige selv utroligt underligt at ændre på en så dejlig tradition med bål ved Tangkroen, men det bliver da helt parakdosalt når man skal betale for at høre den social demokratiske borgmesters tale. Jeg vil tro Stauning vender sig i sin grav ved sådan et princip brud.

Da det ikke eftertragteligt at betale for at høre en social demokratisk borgmester tale, og vi i øvrigt også var bedre stemt for hygge, fortsatte vi videre.

Efter en hyggelig tur gennem mindeparken, hvor kongespil og andre spil dominerede plænen, gik vi ned til Tangkroen hvor Århusianerne, trods avisernes skriverier, alligevel brændte heksen af.

Jeg tænker at en eller anden snedig person i virkeligheden har befriet Tangkroen fra unødvendige talere og fået Sankt Hans til at være den folkelige fest vi elsker.

Tags: Århus, Nikolaj Wammen, Sankt Hans
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Cinema 4D – Design problems

Using this tutorial: Basic Gl in C4D I have created the ground floor using spline object. This I combined in a Sweep NURBS parent together with a rectangle, which gave me the 3D image of the ground floor. However, I am now trying to make windows and doors using a Boole and Polygon. I must be doing something wrong, because it crashes the program. It just becomes non-responsive until remove the objects from the Boole.

Thank you very much in advance.

Update: this turned out to be a flaw in R10 that is fixed in R10.5

Tags: 3D design, Cinema 4D, Sweep Nurbs
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