Author: sroot
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Virtual PDF Printer for our small office network – a step by step how to
Alternative title: How I got multiple cups-pdf printers on the same server. (I didn’t, but postprocessing let me work around the problem). Preamble: I have a small business. For years we’ve been creating PDFs from any computer on our network through a “virtual appliance’ called YAFPC (“Yet Another Free PDF Composer”). The appliance originally ran…
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sunspot solr slow in production (fixed by using IP address instead of domain name)
Short version: ————– In my sunspot.yml I used a FQDN ( solr.rkbb.co.uk ). Solr was slow When I used the server IP (10.18.6.224). Solr was fast. Setting the scene (you can skip this bit): ——————————————- I’ve been slowing working on some improvements to our business system at work. Whilst most of it currently runs on…
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BT Wifi hotspots intercept and redirect google SSL searches
I wouldn’t have noticed them doing this except google told me. That does beg the question, if I was buying something on a website and didn’t notice the redirect from HTTPS to HTTP, could other people on the hot spot be snooping my transactions? I guess BT have a good reason for doing it but…