Archive For October 1st, 2006

Killing off PHP

Do you know why Apache processes get stuck and stop responding when serving pages on a WordPress site? I’ve seen this happen here and on my previous host on a regular basis. I don’t know what happens. It can’t be a PHP script gone into an infinite loop because the normal Apache timeout should kill [...]

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Where's the evil in top posting?

Where is the evil in top posting when replying to a message on a mailing list? It’s something I’ve never understood, even after reading the many “why top posting is evil” posts and FAQs around the interweb. Inspired by yet another email complaining about a top post to the GIMP mailing list I briefly searched [...]

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Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache