Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog...

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. Oth­er­wise, were off...

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento

We wrote this arti­cle in response to post­ings offer­ing advice to users of Magento, an open source ecom­merce sys­tem. The advice is being given with good inten­tions, and the intent is only to assist their fel­low Magento users. But the advice being give may actu­ally have the poten­tial cause harm to the users site, or at the least a good deal of down time. The advice being offered is to help speed up Magento by enabling a server side caching sys­tem called gzip. What peo­ple don’t real­ize is that their being told to enable two sep­a­rate caching sys­tems. These two sys­tems tend not to play well together, and could cause harm to your install. While most peo­ple see pos­i­tive results, there are a rare few see­ing server side errors, data­base errors, and are stumped as to why.

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Server 2003, Wordpress | 1 Comment »

Protect Magento Pages

We recently built a site with a whole­sale area, uti­liz­ing the “Login Only Cat­a­log Exten­sion” and the “Cus­tomer Acti­va­tion Exten­sion”. While this did pro­tect our whole­sale inven­tory from pry­ing eyes, it still left a few pages vis­i­ble to the gen­eral pub­lic. For­tu­nately we found a fix that addressed this issue, and allowed us to secure the rest of the site, in a manor that was intu­itive, and easy to implement.

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Nov 05, 2009 | Magento | 2 Comments »

No USB After Bios Update, Intel Desktop Board D845GVSR

After updat­ing to the newest bios on the Intel Desk­top Board D845GVSR, we lost our USB. The prob­lem was that the CMOS map was changed to include the “USB Enable/Disable” func­tion. In order to get back your USB, you must use the pro­ce­dure listed below.

1. Shut down the com­puter safely and remove the chas­sis cover.
2. Move the BIOS Con­fig­u­ra­tion jumper to the Main­te­nance posi­tion. Aka; the CMOS jumper.
3. Power on the com­puter and enter BIOS Setup (press F2 dur­ing boot).
4. Go to the Advanced > USB Con­fig­u­ra­tion menu.
5. Enable the USB Func­tion.
6. Go to the Exit menu and select Save Cus­tom Defaults.
7. Save and exit the BIOS setup.
8. Turn off the com­puter.
9. Move the BIOS Con­fig­u­ra­tion jumper back to the nor­mal mode posi­tion.
10. Power on the com­puter and enter the BIOS Setup again to ver­ify that the Advanced > USB Con­fig­u­ra­tion menu is now back to normal.

Hope this helps some­one Let us know if you have a questions.

Nov 24, 2008 | Computer Repair and Networks | 2 Comments »