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Installing the mbstring extension (Multibyte) with Easy Apache

Tanya T.

February 1, 2015
Filed in: Business Startup Guides • Coding • Technology


On the Sharing Setting page in Wordpress using the JetPack plugin, you might have gotten this error at the top of the page (paraphrased): "Warning! Multibyte support missing! It will work without it but if mbstring is available you should use it."I would post the exact words it said but I did not take a screenshot of it and now I don't get the error because I fixed... read more
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Expanding Storage? Wondering what’s the cheapest combination?

Tanya T.

November 20, 2014
Filed in: Business Startup Guides • Technology


I just did quite a bit of research. I compared 4TB, 5TB, and 6TB drives at their going rate, and the cost for getting individual drives, 4-Bay NAS, 5-Bay NAS, 8-Bay NAS, and 12-Bay NAS for your home storage solutions. If your storage needs aren't as great as mine, you can plug in different values; i.e. 20TB, and find out your specific solutions. For me, I wanted... read more
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Hosting companies need to disclose “true” web hosting limits on so-called “unlimited” plans

Tanya T.

October 30, 2014
Filed in: Technology


Potentially billions of dollars of damage and loss have been caused to both individuals and businesses as a result of poor business practice of many web hosting providers selling "unlimited" web hosting plans that are not really unlimited at all. Many (not all) web hosting providers have been utilizing a massive scam that has gone unchecked for more than a decade. They... read more
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Faster than light speed travel? With new recent breakthroughs it may be in fact possible – in a way

Alaric Anderson

September 13, 2014
Filed in: Extreme Tech • Technology


In the year 2000, almost 15 years ago, scientists blew away the light speed record by making a laser travel at 300 TIMES the speed of light. Essentially, you can make one end of a light wave travel faster, as long as the other end travels equally slower, so that the total speed across the whole wave does not exceed the speed of light (300 million m/s). Thus, if you... read more