I always have this question in my mind on whether hosting this blog on my home machine is such a good idea afterall. My web server is slow, because the uplink speed of my ADSL connection is only 256Kbps. I have no backup power supply, and my server is not secured from denial of service [...]

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I’m still wondering what have I done, accidentally, to my Firefox browser such that no Google ads are displayed. I know that at one point I’ve installed the CustomizeGoogle extension to my Firefox. But it does not seem that it is the one that is blocking the Google ads. It should not be the firewall [...]

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For those of you who don’t know, a cron is a unix command normally used to schedule a job that is executed periodically. Yeah, I know, but I’m excited because I finally know how to schedule tasks to run on my server, and it is so easy! “crontab -e” is the key. I can now [...]

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What should normally take 5 minutes to set up ended up taking me days! To be fair to wordpress, if you are using a third party web hosting service, it shouldn’t really take you much time to get wordpress installed and there you can start blogging. I know I should shoulder some blame as well, [...]

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