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Vertical Axis Swiveling Turbine (VAST)

Posted on December 31, 2021January 2, 2022 by destryhines
Around 1997 I came up with an idea for a new type of wind turbine based on simple mechanics and parts that I thought would be a good way to generate electricity. I built a simple model using balsa woo... Read More

WordPress Memory Exhausted Error

Posted on December 30, 2018February 4, 2019 by destryhines
Are you getting an allowed memory size exhausted error in WordPress that looks like this? You can easily fix it by increasing the php memory limit in WordPress. I’ll show you how to fix the Word... Read More

Converting Line Endings

Posted on August 20, 2015January 10, 2019 by destryhines
I had a text file on my Linux server that I needed to convert from Windows line endings (CRLF) to Unix line endings (LF) and had to google how to do it. I ran across a good way to handle it that can a... Read More

SQL Server Log Truncation

Posted on June 23, 2015 by destryhines
Sometimes the log files get filled up in SQL Server and you just need to clear them out to free up space. Usually you have to go through a backup process before you can truncate the logs but sometimes... Read More

MTU Size

Posted on June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 by destryhines
Size Matters Whoever said “size matters” is correct in at least one area, MTU packet size. My VPN connection to one of my client’s server was behaving erratically and I finally got ... Read More

Nginx + PHP5-FPM – Bad Gateway Error

Posted on June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 by destryhines
Server Crash Yesterday I updated a bunch of programs on one of my Ubuntu servers and brought the server crashing to a stop. After the upgrade there were several problems and it took me 4 hours to figu... Read More

When I grow up

Posted on June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 by destryhines
When I grow up… Actually, when I move on to the next phase of my life, I want to help people. It sounds simple enough, but I REALLY want to help a lot of people. Not just my family, friends and neig... Read More

Helping Our Teens

Posted on September 30, 2010May 12, 2013 by destryhines
In the last week two of my kid’s closest friends committed suicide. In dealing with the resulting chaos it’s left me with some insight on something that I believe parents are missing these days. I... Read More

Taking Time

Posted on April 8, 2008December 30, 2018 by destryhines
Imagine if we received a dime for every minute of our life. There are 525,600 minutes in a year so we would make $52,560 every year we were alive. That’s $3.7 Million in an average lifetime. For a m... Read More

Karmic Consequences

Posted on March 2, 2008May 12, 2013 by destryhines
Have you ever met someone that seems to steadily consume from the people around them far more than they contribute? Sadly some of these people don’t even realize what they are doing and how it n... Read More
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