Solr5.0 has been recently released with several new features. One of these is a service install to use with Redhat based Linux systems. This install will walk you through an install and create two example cores to test with. Many of the Solr install instructions include the installation of Tomcat. This is not required. Solr…
March 30, 2015
I recently had a hard drive go bad which required me to re-install the OS and all my applications. The challenges with this is all the configuration files associated with various applications. FileZilla is a great FTP client which I use daily. Once you have your FTP clients working, the last thing you want to…
February 26, 2015
My old hard drive started sending SMART errors. I purchased a new hard drive and tried to clone it…but alas, it would not clone. So, I re-installed the OS. I am able to access files from the old drive, so I need to figure out how to migrate my iTunes library from the old…
February 25, 2015When the second person logged on to the internet, there was a discussion. For many years, the primary discussion method on the internet was forums. Forums allow people to group discussions around topics. There are numerous forums on a wide variety of topics on the internet. Then came Social Media sites like MySpace, Facebook and…
December 21, 2013
One of the websites I maintain is LotusElan.net. The website has a very active membership. Over the last 14 years, our members have posted over 21,000 images. These images are valuable, but are very difficult to find.
November 20, 2013As my forum, LotusElan.net, has grown and gone international, I have had to focus on performance. This is especially true for image attachments and avatars. My forum is an automotive forum and it is not unusual for us to have topics with 10 to 15 image attachments. For example here is a typical posting: What…
November 1, 2013
Small businesses often have small budgets and limited technology expertise. After all, you are in business to sell your products and not in business to build eCommerce websites. Hosted eCommerce providers fulfill this need.
August 28, 2013