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How to use FTP 0

How to use FTP

One thing i’ve come across while hosting games is the number of people that don’t know how to use FTP, or use a very bad method (i.e web based 3rd party FTP sites). So, i’m going to show you how to use FTP properly. This tutorial is aimed at Windows users, those that use other operating systems will probably be...

CSRSS & CPU Usage 0

CSRSS & CPU Usage

Customers of my Game Server Company may have noticed recently that we moved to a new server (if you didn’t notice, you probably didn’t get the several emails I sent out informing you of progress every step of the way!). Anyway, I noticed today that between them, CSRSS.exe and Hardware Interrupts where taking up 25% of the total processing power,...

Dell Vostro 1500 Review 3

Dell Vostro 1500 Review

Recently, I got myself a new laptop. After much searching around, I decided on a Dell Vostro 1500. Considering the price and specifications, it seemed like a good buy, and positive reviews outweighed negative ones. For a grand total of £609 delivered I got: Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz 3GB Ram (1x 2GB, 1x 1GB. Reports operation in dual channel!)...

Easy Equations in MediaWiki 2

Easy Equations in MediaWiki

If you’ve ever set up MediaWiki, you will probably know how difficult it is to get equations (or LaTeX rendering / math tags) working. Under windows, it requires a lot of tweaking, ImageMagick support, a full LaTeX install and in quite a few cases fails to work. While trying to get equation rendering working on my personal (read, private!) wiki,...

1st Post! 0

1st Post!

Aaah, first post. Good feeling no? So you’re probably wondering what the hell a blog about Miscellaneous Knowledge is, or perhaps you thought you’d read the first post on here. Quite simply, this is just a collection of interesting facts, methods and odd problems, with a bit of ‘other’ stuff thrown in. The other stuff could be interesting things I...