Category Archives: Tech

Wordcamp New Zealand – Scaling Servers

On the 22nd of April, I (Liz) was lucky enough to be able to speak on scaling WordPress and servers at the New Zealand WordCamp. The people there were great, and i ended up meeting and talking to many fascinating people about all sorts of code, servers, set ups among other things. I was a [...]

Sexism, TechWebCast and Brad Chasenore

Anyone who knows me, knows that i’m most definitely NOT a feminist , i’m usually the first person to say some feminists go over the top. However, when i see it blatantly, i usually will call it, and not tolerate it. One thing that does make my blood boil, is people who cross over female pornography or near naked pictures, [...]

Dell Studio 17″ 1749 – Ubuntu linux suspend and hibernate problems

I have a really awesome Dell studio 17″ laptop. It works brilliantly with Ubuntu since the day i got it, however during an upgrade at sometime, it suddenly stopped suspending and hibernating. This was annoying more than anything, but still fine. I hunted for months high and low for an answer, and could find nothing [...]