Archive For The “Web” Category
Linode.com, where this site is hosted, suffered a distributed denial of service attack this morning. It looks like my two blogs were down and flaky for about 2 hours but things are in hand now and back to normal again! Phew.
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 [...]
I have noticed a strange thing in the past week or so. Google has referred legitimate looking browser user agents to this blog and In Photos.org and within seconds that browser tries to download all my feed links, and several months of my archives. I have a little flood protection built in and it stops [...]
Vouchers, the greatest and bestest gift you can give someone, or the lazy man’s way out of thinking about a present. Whatever way you look at them, they’re useful. All the high-street shops stock them and online retailers do too which is why I ordered vouchers for my brothers Donal and Cathal, and my friend [...]
My brother Donal celebrates his first blog birthday today! Go on over there and wish him a happy birthday! Apparently the first post on my blog was on January 1st, 1998. I doubt it was on that exact date but the second post is dated the 1st of February that year. Maybe I was posting [...]
Why list 50 adwords when all a greedy website owner wants is the most expensive one? It’s school loan consolidation, with an average cost per click of $69.16 apparently. I expect to see a lot more blogs springing up around about … now on this very topic. Makes you wonder how much the banks make [...]
-ChanServ- [#wordpress] Welcome to the WordPress IRC Channel wpbot donncha is someone who blogs on the Internet ketsugi o rly! ketsugi as opposed to blogging on paper? donncha yup Kamigoroshi i tried blogging on paper once.. Kamigoroshi but no one commented.. donncha Kamigoroshi: lol. the good ol’ days? ketsugi teehee * ketsugi leaves a trackback [...]
mod_gzip, zlib.output_compression or whatever way you compress your web pages is a great way of reducing your network traffic costs but comes at the cost of increased CPU usage. Despite what you might think, it can be more expensive to send data over the network, especially to slow clients than compress it first of all [...]
Wow, Flock is fast! I wonder if it chews memory like FF 1.5 too? It’s also a lot more polished than when I tried it a few months back while debugging their sign up page on WordPress.com: preferences, cookies and form data were all imported from Firefox. The little Greasemonkey face isn’t showing in the [...]
