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Here is the blog of James Lawson-Smith. This is where I write about the stuff I know and care about. Please feel free to leave comments on any of my entries as I would love to hear what you guys think of what a write here.

I got a new graphics card

XFX 9800GT 512MB DDR3 CUDA

My new GEForce 9800 GT

So I just installed my new graphics card, an XFX Geforce 9800gt. It has 512mb DDR3 Memory which runs at 1600Mhz, a 600Mhz GPU, 112 Processing Cores and has Nvidia PhysX Technology along with CUDA Technology. So what does this mean? Well a GPU can process graphics data a lot more efficiently than a CPU. Instead of processing one bit of information at a time, like a tradition CPU, the GPU just blasts it all out at once.

My Site Got Hacked

It was shut down for 4 days.

My Site Got Hacked

So there I was just updating my website on my local server and I needed a bit of code from my old site. So I opened up my browser typed in boofly.com into the address bar, waited, and nothing but a message telling me "Forbidden", what the...?

Joomla SuperFish Module Fix

I was working on a site where I needed a simple menu system to put along the top of the site. After trying lots of different one I came across "Superfish Dropdown Menu" and it worked great. Apart from one little bug, when you set the menu to Horizontal and had a Separator as the main menu link it did not look like the rest of the links. So at first I thought it may be I had an old version, but no newer versions had been released. So then I went to http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/ and tired updating all the .JS files but again nothing changed. This lead me to the CSS file, so after a little digging around I found the tags that governed the look of the links and then changed a few things around and bish bash bosh it worked.

My @dubtwestival BG Feature

I got featured

Screenshot of my Twitter background design on twitterbackgroundgallery.com

 

Twitter Background for @dubtwestival

Yesterday I design a Twitter background for @dubtwestival and they liked it and now have it as their Twitter background.

As I normally do in the mornings I had a bit of a surf around TwitterLand and to my surprise found a few other people had downloaded and are now using the same background. It is great that other people like my work and hopefully there are more of you out there.