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Ipstenu on January 15th, 2010

Earlier this month I talked about how my server was acting wonky and how I fixed it using, among other tools, TOP.
This week I was chatting with a fellow about CPU usage and his site. He runs a rather large Wordpress blog and the database is about 500 megs. As a [...]

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Ipstenu on January 1st, 2010

I'm going to start out the new year blogging about servers, so if you don't like my techy talks, this is one to avoid.
ClamAV is an tool that you put on your server and it detects malicious software. In short, it's a server virus scanner and most servers use it to scan email [...]

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Ipstenu on May 12th, 2009

Two months ago (give or take) I mused over photo gallery options for my sites. For Ipstenu, I'm now using a WordPress plugin and treating it like a photoblog. For JFO, however, I couldn't answer it that easily.

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Ipstenu on May 6th, 2009

So I wasn't paying attention and the Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0) was announced April 26th. All plugins submitted between May 1 and July 31 are eligible. Ban Hammer went 'live' on Sunday May 3rd. It may actually be eligible, since I didn't release the code when I wrote it. Look, [...]

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Ipstenu on April 29th, 2009

I am not a great programmer by any means. I can hack around and muddle my way through with the best of the great net scapegraces. I'm not the genius who invents a brand new way of doing things. That said, I do, eventually, get annoyed with things enough that I [...]

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