Aaron Parecki

Speed Up Wordpress

This page contains some short notes on my 3-week adventure while jetting around the US. It was mostly used as a place for me to jot things down on the road so I could refer back to it when writing the blog posts. You can also read about my trip on my blog.

I wanted to create a RAID 5 array with four 1tb drives. I only have three, but I have a 750gb and 320gb drive lying around. I figured there was probably a way to combine them into a 1tb drive that I could use with the others.

Wiimote with Max/MSP

Comcast just started blocking port 25 outgoing. I have several computers at home configured to send email reports of cron jobs. Of course they do this by trying to send mail on port 25 from inside the house to my mail server outside. Now that Comcast is blocking that, I need some other way for my emails to be delivered.

Using Forums in a Class

The ATC has been using a system for accepting registrations for workshops that I developed a couple months ago. It can be seen here:

Introduction

I have set up several small businesses with Wordpress. In addition to being a great blogging platform, it can be used as a more traditional-style website.

Project Background

Tex TutorialHow to get math notation in Moodle

The top trending topic on Twitter the other day was #twitterpornname. This seemingly innocent meme prompts you to find your Twitter porn name by combining the name of your first pet with the street you grew up on, or some variation. Thousands of people began shouting out this information on their Twitter profiles.

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I've had a bit of fun using MediaWiki to power a few websites! Check out cyborganthropology.com, caseorganic.com/wiki, and indiewebcamp.com for a few examples. A default install of MediaWiki looks like wikipedia.org, and you probably don't want your website to look like that. However, MediaWiki is a powerful platform for building your site, even if it's just being edited by one person!

Introduction

A computer program generated the image you see above. There were two goals: create a program that can generate pieces of artwork which will look different every time it is run. The generated art should not look obviously like it came from a computer at first glance. There are five steps to creating the above piece.

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MediaWiki Skin

Due to some significant changes to the Wordpress authentication mechanism, my original IMAP Authentication plugin stopped working in version 2.7.1. I have updated the plugin to work in 2.7.1. The only difference is that users are no longer automatically created in Wordpress if they have a valid IMAP account. I will try to add that back in soon, but for now this will do.

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