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The rush for traffic
2007-09-16 14:00:00 There's a new service out there that aims to get bloggers more traffic. The service is BlogRush and the concept is that you get traffic by displaying your posts in a widget on other blogs in your category. Basically you just install a widget on your site where you display feeds from other blogs in your category ... More About: Traffic
About me update
2007-09-15 19:29:00 The first thing I did when I started this blog was to look for plugins to give wordpress more functionality and then I started writing posts. I'm still looking for cool plugins and sometimes write my owns and from time to time I still write on the blog ( not as much as I would like ... More About: Update
Sendmail as a SMTP-AUTH client on FreeBSD
2007-09-13 09:50:00 This post describes the configuration of Sendmail to use SMTP-AUTH when connecting to a remote MTA to send messages. Such a configuration would be needed in case you have a dynamic ip and your ISP relays the messages for you, but they require authentication. This is not a post about how to set your mta ... More About: Client
How to set up an anonymous proxy on debian
2007-09-12 13:32:00 This document describes the steps required to install squid proxy server from http://squid-cache.org and webmin from http://webmin.com on a debian 4.0 system as well as basic steps required to configure squid to listen on multiple ip addresses and use them as outgoing source address for connections. This will also show you how to configure squid ... More About: General , Debian , Anonymous , Proxy , Anon
XML Sitemaps for Pligg
2007-08-20 19:28:00 I created a module that generates XML Sitemaps for Pligg ( the well known open source cms used for creating sites similar to digg.com ). The module generates a sitemap index and sitemaps with all the stories in the database dynamically so nothing is stored on disk and you don’t have to set a ...
Blog action day for environment
2007-08-17 15:45:00 Let’s see what happens if a lot of bloggers write about the same thing in one day? Would it matter ? Would you make a difference. Blog action day, on October 15′th will be the day when thousands of blogs will write about the one thing. One day per year, one topic, thousands of bloggers contributing ... More About: Environment , Action , Iron , Envi
How to make linux feel like windows
2007-08-16 17:29:00 Anyone missing windows ? Not me, but sometimes is good to go back to windows just to see how it was in the old days when nothing worked well and you would have a crash every few minutes or reinstall once a week. Do that and you’ll realize how privileged you are for using a Unix ... More About: Windows , Linux , Make , Feel
Sidebar decluttering
2007-08-14 21:07:00 A few days ago I came across a post at Problogger.net where Darren Rowse suggested bloggers should de clutter the sidebar of their blogs. I looked at my sidebar and I saw what he meant by clutter. Darren could have used my sidebar as an example of a cluttered sidebar. The sidebar was full of widgets that ... More About: Sidebar , Teri , Erin , Clutter
No browser supporting socks5 authentication?
2007-08-11 12:36:00 If you’re trying to use a socks server with Internet Explorer , Firefox, Opera or Safari everything will work just fine, except for authentication. From my point of view this is a big problem. Who in the world would leave such a proxy server unprotected? Yeah of course you can always limit access to a ... More About: Browser , Authentication , Socks , Browse , Then
Solaris in qemu
2007-08-10 12:38:00 For some time I wanted to try Solaris mainly because all the buzz around it, going open source then with the buzz around ZFS, but I never got the chance to do it until today when I had to make a perl script work on solaris 9 ( this is a outdated but ...
Repair a MySQL table
2007-08-09 12:11:00 I’m running mysql 5.0.23 on a FreeBSD server. I have several databases there and a few phpbb forums. I noticed the tables used for searching the forums ( phpbb_search_wordlist and phpbb_search_wordmatch ) crash quite a lot lately from various reasons but mainly because of hardware problems ( like lack of power ). Nothing unusual here so far. When I notice this I go into mysql and do a repair like : REPAIR TABLE phpbb_search_wordlist; But this time I got this answer: ” Table is already up to date”. So MySQL client tells me the table is fine but in phpbb when I try to search something I get this error message: “SQL Error : 145 Table ‘./simscripts_phpbb/phpbb_search_wo rdlist’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired”. I try to read the table from the mysql client and I get a similar message. Going through the MySQL documentation I find some extra parameters i can pass to repair table. And use_frm seems to be the one that fixes the pro... More About: Mysql , Repair
How to write about Linux for Digg?
2007-07-20 20:15:00 I can’t say I really know the answer to this question as none of my articles reached the front page, and I don’t think they will ever be there mainly because digg audience doesn’t care much about the type of content I write, but check out this site www.venturecake.com. The site has only 11 articles and ... More About: Linux , Write , Digg
Speedlinking Unix 20-07-2007
2007-07-20 09:40:00 Ivan Ivoras wrote an article that presents new features that will be included in FreeBSD 7. If you want to give it a try before it’s released you can download a snapshot cd image or you can try his FreeBSD 7 live CD snapshot It seems like the next version of Mac OSX ... More About: Unix , Linkin
More optimization for comment relish plugin
2007-07-10 12:36:00 In my previous post about optimizing the comment relish plugin I managed to lower the load generated by the comment relish plugin on the database server by adding an index on a column in the cr_emailed table and by optimizing a query ( basically removing a “useless?” join ). This improved the load time a ... More About: Plugin , Optimization , Comment , Comm , Opti
extracting fields in shell
2007-06-21 22:07:00 A lot of shell scripts require processing some kind of data structured in fields or columns separated by special characters ( space, coma, semi colon, etc… ) This is a short tutorial that shows you how you can extract the fields in a stream of data. There are several ways of doing this and each has ... More About: Shell , Field , Fields , Trac , Xtra
easy contest
2007-06-18 14:02:00 John Chow dot Com, a blog that helps you make money is giving away a 24? wide screen LCD monitor! To enter, you just have to write about it. The contest is sponsored by BluFur, who wants to let you know that they?re hosting Canada and the rest of the world. Last time John had such ... More About: Contest , Easy , Easy C
Comment relish optimization
2007-06-18 12:39:00 Comment Relish is a wordpress plugin that sends an email the first time someone comments on your blog. The plugin allows you to define the message in wp-admin and you can embed tags like author’s name, email, website and others in the message. This can be used to send a welcome message to the ... More About: Optimization , Comment , Comm , Opti
Google set to kill link ads
2007-06-13 13:25:00 Google has a way of reporting paid links now. They say buying links is an attempt to game their pagerank algorithm and they want you to report sites that sell or buy paid links. They agree links are a good way of advertising and are not against it, but they want those that display text link ... More About: Google , Link , Kill , Googl
css class names in IE 6
2007-06-11 20:54:00 I just realized today that IE 6 class names must not start with something else other then [a-zA-Z]. So don’t you dare name your classes like _class1 cause it will not work in IE6. It works well in Firefox 2.0, IE7, opera and safari and that will just make it harder when you’ll try to discover ... More About: Class , Ames , Names
Agloco viewbar available
2007-06-07 08:32:00 AGLOCO the company that pays you shares to browse the net, has finally released their view bar. This is the tool bar you install in internet explorer or firefox that will display ads that are contextually targeted, then all you have to do is use your browser and navigate like you always do, but now ...
The temple of sun
2007-06-02 16:26:00 Sun Microsystems created an online flash game for developers named “the temple of sun” as an attempt to get developers to try Sun studio 11. The game is pretty much simplistic , you’re in a temple similar to those created by the maya civilization but this one was created by developers to protect Sun Studio 11, ... More About: Temple , Temp , The Temple
Linux apps anywhere
2007-06-01 15:47:00 LINA is a virtual machine that aims to run linux applications on any operating systems. The concept is similar to the Java VM, write your application in C, C++ ( and other languages supported in the future ), compile it with LINA and it will run on Windows, Linux , Mac OSX and maybe other OS. You ... More About: Where
Yet another perfect server
2007-06-01 14:42:00 A of howtos start like that “The perfect Serve r ” or “The Perfect Descktop” or “The perfect Setup”. Howtoforge has lots of howtos like that. Their latest “the perfect server” literally shows you, ( because the howto has more screenshots then words ) how to install Centos 4.5 and the servers that you need for ... More About: Linux
vim windows and tabs
2007-05-19 10:45:00 Tabs are great, I don’t know what I would do without tabs, they are everywhere, your browser has them, your editor has them, even your webmail has them ( see yahoo mail ). Well I just discovered vim has them too. Before windows and tabs I don’t know why I never thought of this before. I ... More About: Windows , Tabs , Indo , Window
google apps: check mail
2007-05-18 20:49:00 I went to google apps today and here is what I see on their page: With Googl e Apps, you and your colleagues can check email, schedule meetings, check email, chat in real time,…. So you can check email, schedule meetings, check email, chat, check email, share calendars, check email….hmm if that’s how you’re going to work I’m ... More About: Mail , Google Apps , Check
de-mono-ification
2007-05-18 19:43:00 Today I removed mono completely from my gentoo system. I’m not sure how it got there, but gnome seems to use it the ebuilds in gentoo seem to have it activated by default. Well I don’t need that, and it drew my attention on it when I did an update and it didn’t want ... More About: Mono
the ubuntu buzz
2007-05-18 19:27:00 there seems to be quite a buzz about ubuntu these days,. Digg and other similar sites are full of stories about “the perfect ubuntu setup”, “the perfect ubuntu server” and others like that. Well maybe not today cause now we have bigger problems. We’re shocked by engadget’s / apple , iphone delay anouncement ... More About: Ubuntu , Buzz , The U
Stop playing with page titles
2007-05-15 22:05:00 This is more like a reminder to me then an advice for others to follow. It reminds me that I should stop playing with page titles and get them right from the beginning. Wordpress default post titles When I first started this blog using wordpress the default template had something like “Patchlog ?? Blog Archive ?? Post ... More About: Page , Stop , Title , Titles
making money online
2007-05-15 21:17:00 This is a little out of topic on my blog, but lately I’ve been reading a few blogs about internet marketing, seo, web site monetization methods and other topics related to making money online. John Chow is one of those bloggers making big money from their online blog and web sites. I read his blog to ... More About: Money , General , Online , King , Line
Color Picker
More articles from this author:2007-05-14 20:58:00 AdesClrPick er is an easy to use standalone program that let’s you designers out there easily get the code for colors anywhere on your desktop. Of course it you’re using firefox there’s an extension out there that does the same thing but that will only let you pick colors from your browser and Ades Color Picker ... 1, 2, 3 |
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