Alan McCloskey, Author at OCmodshop.com

Linux Firewall Part 4: Installation

Alan McCloskeyApr 3, 2009June 24, 20145

For the purposes of this turotial, I am making several assumptions. I am assuming that your green network is 192.168.1.x and your orange network is

Full-size photos not working on WordPress with IIS7

Alan McCloskeyApr 3, 2009June 24, 20141

I thought I had all the weird caveats figured out when hosting WordPress on IIS7. It looks like there’s another one. Apparently by default you

Availability of Blu-ray Media

Alan McCloskeyApr 2, 2009November 28, 20142

So, I’ve finally secured a Blu-ray drive for the OCMS labs. Now the only thing is to get hordes of BD-R media, so I ventured

I took out an ad on the bus

Alan McCloskeyApr 1, 2009August 25, 20140

I was presented with a pretty good deal lately. In exchange for donating some of the leftover lab computers, I was given free advertising on

The lights went out in OCMS

Alan McCloskeyMar 31, 2009August 25, 20140

My wife just informed me that the electricity went out on the block… but she was still able to IM me… meaning that the UPS

Bigfoot Xeno Network Card First Look

Alan McCloskeyMar 29, 2009November 28, 20140

Every person on the internet has experienced lag… the feeling of frustration while waiting for something online. It’s not that big a deal when waiting

Fighting Firewalls

Alan McCloskeyMar 28, 2009November 28, 20140

Some of you may have noticed that OCMS has been down off-and-on for the past day or so… that is because I installed a hardware

Hopes for a PSP Phone

Alan McCloskeyMar 25, 2009November 28, 20144

The Sony PSP is one of my favorite portable devices, simply because it delivers a quality gaming experience on the go. Over the past year,

DNS Servers Crashed Hard

Alan McCloskeyMar 23, 2009August 25, 20140

In case you hadn’t noticed, OCModShop (and all its sister sites) were unreachable at about 5:30 PST. Apparently the DNS servers I go through went

How to set up Pretty Permalinks on IIS7

Alan McCloskeyMar 21, 2009June 24, 20140

WordPress was originally meant for Linux servers running Apache. Apache has a nice module called mod-rewrite, which basically allows the usage of pretty permalinks. Pretty permalinks

OCmodblog moved over to Server 2008

Alan McCloskeyMar 20, 2009August 25, 20140

If you get a 404 error, then that means that you probably have some old files cached. Since the permalinks are new, you may be

Acoustibuds Earphone Adapters

Alan McCloskeyMar 19, 2009July 4, 20142

There are many many personal audio products available today; the most popular being mp3 players and portable gaming devices. The problem that many of them have

Server 2008 Woes Over

Alan McCloskeyMar 19, 2009August 25, 20141

I installed a Server 2008 web server a few weeks ago, but ran into several issues, primarially dealing with the 3ware RAID card. No matter

Resistance: Retribution Review

Alan McCloskeyMar 16, 2009June 24, 20141

Title Resistance: Retribution Rating M Mature Publisher Sony Corporation Release Date March 17, 2009 Composer Garry Schyman Platform Playstation Portable (PSP) Modes Single player, Multiplayer

3ware Escalade 7000 and Server 2008

Alan McCloskeyMar 12, 2009August 25, 20142

So, I’ve been toying with Windows Server 2008 for a few weeks, and have ironed out most of the kinks… until I came across this