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

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. […]
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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, vpsTCP Port Ranges for Application Servers
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) […]
Read MoreRemove Redirection From Google Search Results
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, urlDigital Ocean VPS Droplet Benchmarking
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 […]
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Read More dropbox, gamificationChoosing a Responsive Corporate Theme for WordPress
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 […]
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