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The Danesh Project outage

posted on September 7, 2007 in Site News with 1 Comment

My blog was experincing some outage last night. Sorry for the inconvenience. The IP block my site belongs to was experiencing heavy DDOS attacks so the data center was forced to bring down the specific network range till the issue was resolved. Official response from my hosting company below, Update on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx Experiencing [...]

Wink free people search

posted on September 6, 2007 in Internet with 1 Comment

Wink let’s you find people from other social networks like MySpace,Bebo, Friendster and others from one central location. You will need to register a profile at Wink and also register the the social networks you belong to into your Wink profile. Your people search can be based on name, location,school,work,interest and more…. Tools from Wink, [...]

ShowYourself widget

posted on September 6, 2007 in WordPress with 1 Comment

ShowYourself is a widget for for websites that displays all the web 2.0 sites or any social networks you belong to. For example Friendster, MySpace, YouTube, etc….. What I like about the ShowYourself widget is the fact that I don’t need to register a profile to utilize the widget. There is a similiar widget from [...]

Extract ZIP files in Linux

posted on September 6, 2007 in Linux with 3 Comments

ZIP archives are most commonly used in Windows/MS-DOS based environments. In Linux, you can use the “unzip” command to extract,list or test ZIP files. Below are the common tasks I use “unzip” for. Extract the contents of a ZIP file into it’s own directory and also create subdirectories as needed. # unzip [filename].zip Extract the [...]

WordPress 2.3 Beta 2 released

posted on September 5, 2007 in WordPress with 0 Comments

WordPress 2.3 Beta 2 was released yesterday. New features in this release, Improved AtomPub (Atom Publishing Format and Protocol). Tag importers for Jerome’s keywords. Tag importers for Simple Tagging plugin. The bughunt will be on as usual today in the #wordpress-bugs channel so join in if you feel like contributing. Source : boren.nu

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