WHAT A LAMP

Check disk space

df -h

Check Error log

tail -f /var/log/mysqld.log

check port 3306

netstat -ntpl |grep 3306

It is simply to do the upgrade to WordPress 2.8.

No risk, no error. Fast.

There are hundreds of PHP books. Which one do you want, if you already have a basic knowledge of PHP?

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Update three plugins today.

The most important is to upgrade AdSense Manager to Advertisement Manager.

Now this plugin can handle not only AdSense ads, but also AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks.

So good to use these ad platform to make money from your posts.

Ubuntu 9.04 released yesterday. The netbook mix edition is also released at the same time.

I installed it on my Acer Aspire One netbook.

1) Download UNM from official site.

2) Check the MD5 to make sure the img file is OK.

3) Write the img file into a 2GB usb disk through Disk-Writer.

4) Plugin the usb disk in Netbook. Boot it and press F2 to choose USB as the boot option.

5) Start Ubuntu 9.04 live.

6) Everythink looks OK. Then click install.

7) It took me about 30 minutes to install.

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Now Hosting from China to USA is launched this month.

It is mangered by me, David Yin. Hosting service is one of the important part of my services provided in public. Especial in this time, many web site hosted in China mainland are unpluged by authority without proper reason.

To save their sites, I give this option for them to escape from the no-free-land.

OK, let’s discuss the detail of the hosting plans.

It is very important, that it is designed in Chinese. Including the sign up, user zone, KB and most of the support part.

But you still can choose English panel, if you like.

Start from $20 per year of Value plan, with 200MB disk space and  1G/month traffic limit.  It is best for new blogger who starts his first blog.

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The HDD I bought Dec 03, 2008 is Samsung Spinpoint F1 Series HD642JJ, 640GB SATA2 7200RPM 16MB 3.5 inch OEM hard drive.

2,072 spams caught, 36 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.858%.

I do rely on this anti-spam facility to protect my blog.

Just login the admin, then Tools > Upgrade > Automatically

Less than 15 seconds. It is finished.

Don’t wait, just login and click it to protect your WordPress.

phplist has a very important security update.

phpBB’s official site is hacked because of this issue for weeks.

To upgrade phplist is simple.

1. BACKUP your database!
2. BACKUP your old config.php file, or optionally backup your whole PHPlist so you can rollback if something would go wrong.
3. Replace your old PHPlist with the new version.
4. Copy your configuration files to lists/config or re-edit the new config file.
5. Go to http://yourdomain/lists/admin/∞ and choose the Upgrade link in the System Functions section.
6. Click the link in this page.

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