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Monthly Archive for October, 2006

links for Oct 23-29

A busy surfing week this.

  • Explore backup ideas again after reading about it on Jeremy Zawodny.
  • Looked at diff tools. Have some ideas that I want to do with diff.
  • Sysadmin tools, networking
  • Hosting stuffs … planning to do a new site on hosting which will be called Host Thyself.

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Mediawiki speeding up move to PHP5

I’m a laggard in terms of adoption and in this case PHP5. Upgrade to PHP5 was held back since most applications work fine on PHP4 and some even has issues with PHP5. But all these is about to change because of Mediawiki.

I wanted to use Mediawiki for a few wiki that I like to start. Mediawiki however, had stopped development on PHP4 platform and support only PHP5. My choice is either to use the legacy version or move on to PHP5. I bit the bullet and chose the latter.

Upgrade went pretty painless. Much, much more simple than I imagine. Just a configuration change, a package update and a apache restart. Thanks to this piece of information.

Everything seems to be working fine, at least this blog looks ok.

Well done. I took my first step into PHP5.

Blacklist Spam Blacklists

When I read post like this, I recalled my own horror encounter with spam blacklist.

You can imagine the the extent of rage when after so many years, I hiss at SBL eachtime I read of similar vexation.

For the goodness sake of the Internet, blacklist the spam blacklist.

links for Oct 16-22

Some chinese sites. Sorry to the English only readers, I wanted to look at more Chinese sites since I’m living and working there.

A look at Spam related issues.

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Google, yet again.

Sometimes I wonder, would Google become the next Microsoft? It seems that Microsoft and Yahoo are having problem competing with Google.

People prefer to work at Google. Even companies prefer to be acquired by Google.

Google must have done something right. Everything they do is cool. Comparatively, everything Microsoft does for a long time is an evil attemp to take over the world.

What can go wong with them? They just reported third quarter earnings growth of 92% over last year. Could they have done that by cutting back on the amount they paid to adsense publisher? No wonder people are speculating Adsense is dead.

Imagine Google went from zero to what they are now is just over half a decade. Impossible is nothing.



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