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1/26/2005 ↓

Monitor Gratis Program Referrals via RSS
Monitor Gratis Program Referrals via RSSMonitor referrals to FreephotoiPods, FreeMiniMacs, FreeiPodShuffle, FreeiPods or FreeDesktopPC via RSS and your favorite news reader. Add this to your Woot Off tracker and you are all set! (0)

I fear there is a new wave of comment spam in the works 7comments

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The comment spam floods have subsided very suddenly and it can only mean that the spammers are re-grouping or working on some killer app in the spamming world.
I am afraid that can only mean more trouble for us bloggers. Stay tuned.

Google testing ‘new’ user activated ads on Adsense
Google testing ‘new’ user activated ads on Adsense: Are you ready to choose your own ads on the sites that you frequent? Ad revenues stand a good chance of increasing substantially with this development, if of course the choice is unobtrusive. (0)

1/25/2005 ↓

WeddingWeblog.com - Your Complete Wedding Story Online - Weblog-style Websites - Free Trial
WeddingWeblog.com - Your Complete Wedding Story Online - Weblog-style Websites - Free Trial: Blog your Wedding for free. Why am I not surprised? I can see myself podcasting the nuptuals and videoblogging the ceremony! ;-) (4)
Mallow Theme for WordPress
Mallow: The new version of the Mallow theme for WordPress is looking good! (0)
MT Email Spamming
MT Email Spamming …allows arbitrary emails to be sent out from any MT installation. If you run MT, please delete the comments script until a fix is out. (0)
Photon Photo blog creation software is now free
Photon Photo blog creation software is now free: with experimental WordPress 1.5 support. Thanks NSLog (0)

1/24/2005 ↓

Any Mysql gurus in the house? 5comments

Mark Ghosh

General

My server is having some Mysql connection issues. I know that the number of queries has increased exponentially and I am also aware that the server is doing a lot more work. However, I am wondering if I can tweak some Mysql parameters to make things work better. Here are some details:

Mysql frequently runs out of connections. I close every connection after I am done with it, and I try to reduce or break up all my slow queries. The server averages about 10 queries a second and the number of threads hover around mid 90s all the time. I have reduced the max_timeout and the connect errors to try and reduce the number of threads but that does not seem to make much of a difference. I have tried to increase the number of max connections and that just seems to grind the server to a halt. I have tweaked the SQL as far as I can and have looked at optimising the use of SQL. Is there something else that I should be looking at? If this continues I might have to rewrite some of the apps that use the mysql database. Also, as an aside, are the max connections per database or per database server?

PS: The load is NOT being generated by WordPress. There is true load on the server from some other applications that I run in the background.

Eric’s Archived Thoughts: WP-Gatekeeper
Eric Meyer: WP-Gatekeeper: A more accessible CAPTCHA solution to prevent comment Spam in WordPress. Interesting solution that has been tried before and has had mixed reviews from users. [EDIT] Interesting twist I did not quite catch at first glance My goal was to create a system … rotates between as many challenges as one cares to set up. It could be just one challenge, or a set of 100. So a blog could ask for the blogname, the author’s name and the day of the week, for example. (3)
CSS Rounded Box Generator
CSS Rounded Box Generator: Cool implemenation of rounded corners CSS. Thanks Arvind (3)
Updated Paginate plugin for WordPress 1.5
Updated Paginate plugin for WordPress 1.5 (0)
Aromatic Blend Wordpress Templates
Aromatic Blend Wordpress Templates: Three wordpress templates from Beng. The first is a blend of brown and white with a menu on top, the second is a cartoony three column much like Gemini and the third is a sobre grey with flowers. Thanks BloggingPro (1)

1/23/2005 ↓

podFeeder - podcast repository
podFeeder - podcast repository: An online aggregator for Podcasts with a descktop client that makes podcast downloads simple and podcast aggregation a breeze. The client is Windows only for now, but Mac and Linux clients are in the works. Thanks iPodder (0)

1/21/2005 ↓

SlickDeals.net Forums - Automatically monitor the woot-off
SlickDeals.net Forums - Automatically monitor the woot-off: If you are a fan of Woot as I am, this might interest you. For those unaware, Woot offers a single item every day at unbelievable prices until it sells out. (0)

1/20/2005 ↓

Link Cosmos and rel=”nofollow” 4comments

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If you are using the Technorati Link Cosmos using PHP then links that this tag generates will be counted by Search engines as being valid - which they may well be. But if a spammer sets up a blog, and links to you, you will be counted as providing a valid link. You might not want that to happen.

The altered script can be grabbed here: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/downloads/cosmos.phps

It won’t remove the link and it’s not ideal as you are tarring all links with the same brush, but it will make the spammers link useless for pagerank purposes.