Boshdirect

Personal blog of Josh Lyon

  • Meta Information

    I recently did a google search with the only parameter being show everything from the boshdirect.com domain. To do this, I simply went to google and entered “site:boshdirect.com” as my search term. I noticed that the descriptions for all my Joomla pages were the same thing. I decided to take a look at the setting…

  • Europe Pictures

    I’ve uploaded my Europe pictures to my photo gallery. I had a ton of pictures (somewhere between 300-400) and decided not to upload all of them.  I probably uploaded about half of them though so you’ll want to either pick and choose based on thumbnails or have a good amount of time to look at…

  • Default Browser: Internet Explorer

    Question: I want my primary to be Explorer, but Firefox is Answer: In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Options > Programs (Tab) > Check the”Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser” checkbox. Click the apply button in the bottom right and close out of the options (Ok your…

  • PuTTYtray

    I found a great new version of an old tool I’m used to using: PuTTYtray For those of you who don’t know what putty is, it’s “a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.” Most of my non-techie friends are probably even more confused now…

  • 301 Redirection Using htaccess

    The following post is about using redirection to keep your existing search engine ranking for content on an old domain. Here’s my story: I purchased multiple domains and by default set them to all direct to the same content (eg. document root). When I started my search engine optimization kick I realized that different domains…

  • Howto:Change Server Shell Port

    I saw this great post on SharkSpace by Amanda about how to change your server’s shell port. It said it was part of the dedicated server guide, but I thought it was good for people with VPSs (Virtual Private Servers) as well. Here’s the post: 1) Login to shell via root. 2) Open the shell…

  • Christmas Time

    It’s the Friday before Christmas and I’m excited I dont have to work until after the New Year. I’ve had a lot to do at work – some fun projects and some not so fun. The good thing is I’m working on a big range of different things from building a community site (like Facebook…

  • Blogg-X No Keywords

    I just realized that the new Blogg-X component I’m using doesn’t have a keywords area in it. If I could find a good way to automatically have these fields generated this component would really work great for me. The SEO tool I’m using has an option to mass generate keywords for articles, but it doesnt…

  • Up To Date Blogging

    I’ve been really bad about keeping my blog up to date lately. I’m not sure exactly what it is that keeps me from updating my site, but I feel like I don’t do it as much as I should. Even if I just kept my blog posts short, it would be better short than nothing.

  • Amsterdam

    I am in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)… that is all.

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