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for two days, while I was trying to upgrade some of the port software on the FreeBSD virtual server. I got totally confused with the PHP port and the few WordPress instances went down for a little over 24 hours.
For the record, just build and install the PHP5 port, then PHP5-extensions port. Ignore all the [...]

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新年決心多寫多blog，結果是懶和忙，邊是寫不了多少。問題已經確認了，只欠解決方法！

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Link.
I wish Blogger would continue to or even enhanced ftp support. I have a Blogger account (who doesn’t?) and host my never-update Blogger blog on my own server using ftp. It works rather well. But I like Wordpress much better.
The problem with relying on web services like Blogger is that, should the web service provider for [...]

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2009年就完，又係時候做review同2010年展望。
今年比較懶，亦可能因為雜務纏身，故此學術上無甚進展。第一term修了科7字頭的古代史，可惜是自己放入去的時間真是不夠，否則可能所得更多。一月之後希望再重溫一下，多讀點有關古埃及和Mesopotamia的書和資料，寫兩篇短文做做練習。
十月做了現代農奴。地方環境都不錯，只可惜單位是比較細了一點。
2009年比較少離家遠行，只去了粵東幾天。看的東西不是太特別，幸好遇到很多好人。一月中應該會到廣東省一行，之後希望到二里頭探班，年中再到內蒙古考古之旅。
剛剛買了一套特價潛水裝備，來年應該會多點scuba。
希望2010年多讀點書，多點時間幫Jasper溫習，多點做寫作練習，常update這個blog。
待續...

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Facebook is fun. Twitter is instanteous. You use them for a longish period of time, and they contain a story of your life. The only problem is, the story is about you, but the story is not yours, because the data is not yours. Only data stored on your own facility, with backup, is yours.
So [...]

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Happy New Year!

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Excellent WordPress plug-in. This closes commenting for older posts, so spammers would have a smaller number of posts to inject their crap. I’ll see how it works out.
Update (3/1): Seems to work very well.

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This minor WordPress blog is being hit by spammer(s) in the last few days. A lot of these spams have been caught by the excellent Akismet service, but quite a few actually came thru, which was easily dealt with by the very smooth WordPress UI.
In this age of clever spam filters and coordinated spam detection [...]

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Ha ha.

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Concentration Diversion, on Tumblr.

Very slick UI. Lacks commenting system thou. Already got API, so it may be made to work w/ other blogging software, e.g. WordPress.

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I have just installed eAccelerator. Seems to work fine, and this site feels a bit faster.

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WordPress 2.3 is now out. Four WP installations to upgrade. Sigh.
Update (26/9): The K2 theme (even the RC1) appears to break WordPress 2.3, giving an error about not finding the table wp_categories, so I had to roll back after upgrading one of the WP installations I maintain. Maybe it would take awhile for all the [...]

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I have just migrated (long overdue!) James’ blog from MT 2.6x to WordPress 2.2.
I used Alex King’s mt-wp-redirect template when I migrated my own blog from MT 2.6x to WP. While it works reasonably well and most old links are forwarded to the equivalent new links, I have to keep the old site around, and [...]

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Previously running under Apache+PHP4 and then very briefly under Apache2+PHP5. I think I am settling on lighttpd+PHP5.
No noticeable performance improvement that I can tell, althou the site should seem a little slower overall, ‘cos this blog is now hosted in an overseas VPS.
Check Google on getting lighttpd to work with PHP5 using FastCGI (CGI is [...]

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The Textile2 plugin doesn’t work with utf8 characters. Fortunately Textile1 under the Text Control plugin works. Hurrah!

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I decided to make the final jump. Even got the old individual blog posts under MT redirecting to the new blog entries in WP as described by Alex King’s excellent MT template. Most of these work, althou so far I have found that for some strange reasons a zooomr.html post when being imported into WP [...]

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The Coop has just gained a capital investment of HK$1,000, which after some thoughts and discussion with one of the Coop members, I have decided to invest into another bar of 512MB to bring the total memory of mother to a whopping 1GB (WOW BFD!) and a large-ish HD to put into my home server [...]

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Mother died again a bit over an hour ago. Since the only thing I have changed on it is to install WordPress on it and tried to migrate my weblog over, the new software must be the cause of the problem. I am therefore shutting down WP for the time being and see how it [...]

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I am getting over 100 spam pings everyday. Adding the domain names into my spam database, deleting the pings and rebuilding my site, then deleting the notification emails are mechanical, and althou it only takes a few minutes, this is totally unproductive and certainly not fun.
There is no easy way to turn trackback off and [...]

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I have been tweaking the sidebar of my weblog.
I’ll be moving my weblog to another system, probably WordPress in the next few weeks.

I installed and played with MovableType 3. Althou I can run my personal weblog w/o purchasing a licence, I prefer WordPress’s GPL licence.

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