Tag Archives: Linux

Serving Magento Media Images From A Sub-Domain

Magento 1.8.1.0 CE, CentOS 6.5 64-bit One of the most important things when developing with Magento is reducing the page load times. Today I’m going to show you a quick and relatively simple tweak to drastically improve catalog performance, especially on category-type pages. Most speed-test services will promote the use of parallelization on your site. […]

Running Android 4.3 On A Virtual Machine

VirtualBox 4.3.6, Android 4.3 x86 In case you’ve been farming lentils in the Turkish lowlands for a few years, you may not be aware that some kind folks have created a PC-friendly version of Android. Today I’m going to show you how to get this running in a virtual machine for testing or development purposes, […]

How To Manage Archives With Tar and Untar

CentOS 6 This is not the most comprehensive guide, but rather a quick tip to tar and untar directories. Tar is a powerful file archive and compression utility that is fast to execute and creates conveniently small archives when used with compression turned on. Archive The syntax is very easy. Here’s how we create a […]