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The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies, by Chet Holmes, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael Gerber

Posted on March 24, 2013 by ahcox in Online Marketing
The Ultimate Sales Machine

Rob Walling of Startups for the Rest of us, recommended this book in episode 122, on launching a B2B product in relation to sales and outbound marketing.

Read More dream 100, marketing, outbound marketing, sales

Setting up Both Nvidia CUDA and OpenGL on an Optimus Laptop Running Ubuntu 12.10

Posted on February 14, 2013 by ahcox in Ubuntu
CUDA Device Query for Nvidia Geforce GT 650M

Bumblebee lets you run accelerated OpenGL through your Nvidia Optimus secondary GPU on Ubuntu. CUDA can be installed to run on that GPU without OpenGL or Bumblebee. There are guides out there for both of those individual situations. Many CUDA devs will also use OpenGL apps, and a proportion will also develop for both platforms. […]

Read More bumblebee, cuda, drivers, gpu, installation, nvidia, opengl, optimus, optirun, setup, toolkit, ubuntu, ubuntu 12.10

512 MB Digital Ocean VPS Droplet: Towards Using A Large Swapfile on SSD to Mask the Lack of RAM

Posted on February 4, 2013 by ahcox in Hosting
Digital Ocean 512MB 20GB SSD VPS for $5

I just ran ioping on my Digital Ocean 512MB / 20GB VPS which supposedly has an SSD. The SSD was quite exciting to have in the droplet before these tests: although it only has 512MB of RAM, I was hoping to allocate a large swap and have the SSD save the day. At first sight […]

Read More benchmark, digital ocean, disk, droplet, ioping, iops, vps

TCP Port Ranges for Application Servers

Posted on February 1, 2013 by ahcox in Web Development

Given that it is probably best to use an unassigned tcp port to run an application server on, lets find a large block of unassigned ports at a nice round starting number. Here we go: TCP Port Ranges for Private Application Servers Shortlist 46000 -> 46997 (998) 47200 -> 47556 (357) 48700 -> 48899 (200) […]

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Remove Redirection From Google Search Results

Posted on January 21, 2013 by ahcox in Web Hacks

The links on Google search pages look like normal direct URLS, but if you right-click them and do a copy and paste into another document, you find out that they are not. Instead, they really point at a Google URL that will track where you are going before it redirects you to your true destination. […]

Read More chrome, chromium, extension, google, link, outbound link, privacy, redirection, redirects, search engine results page, serp, tracking, url

Digital Ocean VPS Droplet Benchmarking

Posted on December 20, 2012 by ahcox in Hosting

I just got myself one of their 256MB “droplets” and started it up running 64bit Ubuntu 12.10. Here is the sysbench CPU result for that: [email protected]:/tmp/bench# sysbench –test=cpu run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 1 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number […]

Read More benchmarking, digital_ocean, sysbench, vps

Dropbox Referral Code

Posted on November 30, 2012 by ahcox in Social Web

Get DropBox with 500MB extra free space by signing up via my link: http://db.tt/Qlso4THm

Read More dropbox, gamification

Choosing a Responsive Corporate Theme for WordPress

Posted on November 13, 2012 by ahcox in Web Development

A responsive theme is one which can adapt its layouts to different browser window widths and thus work on different devices such as phones, tablets, computers, and smart televisions: hopefully looking good on all of them. With the prevalence of smart phones and tablets in business these days, any new corporate identity or product marketing […]

Read More corporate, responsive, theme, wordpress

Recent Blog Posts

  • The Ultimate Sales Machine

    The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies, by Chet Holmes, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael Gerber

    March 24, 2013
  • CUDA Device Query for Nvidia Geforce GT 650M

    Setting up Both Nvidia CUDA and OpenGL on an Optimus Laptop Running Ubuntu 12.10

    February 14, 2013
  • Digital Ocean 512MB 20GB SSD VPS for $5

    512 MB Digital Ocean VPS Droplet: Towards Using A Large Swapfile on SSD to Mask the Lack of RAM

    February 4, 2013
  • TCP Port Ranges for Application Servers

    February 1, 2013

    More From the Blog

    • The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies, by Chet Holmes, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael Gerber
    • Setting up Both Nvidia CUDA and OpenGL on an Optimus Laptop Running Ubuntu 12.10
    • 512 MB Digital Ocean VPS Droplet: Towards Using A Large Swapfile on SSD to Mask the Lack of RAM
    • TCP Port Ranges for Application Servers
    • Remove Redirection From Google Search Results
    • Digital Ocean VPS Droplet Benchmarking
    • Dropbox Referral Code
    • Choosing a Responsive Corporate Theme for WordPress

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