Monthly Archives: December 2009

Coping with the Seige mentality

Posted on December 28, 2009

Over the last few days I’ve started to think more carefully about performance optimization, from both the user’s and webserver’s point of view. A few tests using the rather excellent Siege showed huge drop offs in performance when serving quite … Continue reading →

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Problems with Apple Remote control and Snow Leopard

Posted on December 28, 2009

If you have a problem with your Apple Remote not working after upgrading to OS 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’, you aren’t alone. Unfortunately the problem is quite common, has numerous time-consuming suggested fixes that generally don’t work, and utterly predictable. Apple … Continue reading →

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