I changed the location to ja.meswilson.com/blog/.
Most of the old links should work and redirect here. I added the redirects in lighttpd.conf.
I'll probably start posting more. Going to try to start doing some more online work, and I'll write about them or what have you.
Also, new theme.
They showed me about updating Wordpress.
It seems it keeps deciding to add spam to my latest post which causes it to not be shown anymore, for some reason. And it only started right after I updated it from my highly out of date version, which was working fine.
Sure, it had SQL injections, XSS vulnerabilities, [...]
After a 35 minute downtime of upgrading Wordpress, which seriously guys, upgrading is a pain in the ass, we're back. And by we, I mean me.
Anyways, went from 2.1.3 to 2.3.2. It had been a while. Why? Because as I said, upgrading is a horrible experience.
Here's my .bash_history for the upgrade session.
Oddly exactly [...]
Yahoo decided it needed to promote some of it services by making a WordPress plugin that allows you to add Yahoo based info to your post. It "reviews" your post as you write it to see what useful extra information it can add. Like, give a location, and you can add a Yahoo map to [...]
Link 1 VPS from vpslink.com. $7.95 a month.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 4400 (2.0 GHz) (not sure what percentage I get)
Memory: 64 MB RAM (no swap, should've gotten Xen)
OS: Ubuntu 7.10
Server: lighttpd w/ PHP via fastcgi
DB: MySQL 5
Hard Drive Space: 2.5 G (1.4G – 57% used)
Avg load avg: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
Avg MemFree: 16768 kB
Current access.log [...]
I've been using VPSLink since a little after I posted this. Have yet to have a single problem with them
Here's a screenshot of the account page on Netfirms:
Which one do you think will allow you to turn auto-renew off?
Product Renewal? Nope. I can renew it early if I feel so obliged.
Billing Profile? Think again. I [...]
Since I moved my most trafficked sites to this server, I've decided to post stats about my last server.
These were all generated from awstats starting in June 2007.
Summary:
Visits: 44232
Pages: 259259
Hits: 664952
Bandwidth: 10.27 GB
Day of Week:
Day
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth
Mon
842.61
2222.57
31.52 MB
Tue
806.11
2184.85
28.89 MB
Wed
839.24
2143.33
30.84 MB
Thu
827.17
2133.07
33.32 MB
Fri
831.13
2045.18
35.90 MB
Sat
779.13
1906.13
29.03 MB
Sun
762.24
1948.62
41.35 MB
Bots:
96 different robots*
Hits
Bandwidth
Last visit
Googlebot
101512+910
2.71 GB
15 Nov 2007 – 18:16
Unknown robot (identified by 'robot')
31241+1371
597.93 [...]
I should be doing really soon now, like tonight, though it might take till tomorrow or so, so I might be going away for a bit, and hopefully for just a bit, possibly more though, because I'm not sure what this is going to entail. I know what I'm doing, just not what I'm doing [...]
For the past couple of days, with today being the worse, the database server has just been completely horrible. Not sure why, but I keep getting "MySQL Server has gone away" errors. Lots of them. So pages might only load partly or not at all. And It's really starting to annoy me.
I dispatched a support [...]