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I have been running Defensio for a week now. 253 positive spam comments and only 8 false positive hits. Not bad in my book as the current accuracy is at 97.05%. What I seem to be loving about Defensio is it’s simplicity in spam management. Color code comments based on spaminess Obvious spam is hidden Spam statistics made available through the WordPress admin page. Enhanced statistics, reports and graphs accessible through the Defensio Account Management page on the Defensio’s site. RSS feeds for spam and comments. Spam is something every Blog owner has to deal with on a daily basis. I had 253 positive spam and only 18 legitimate comments. Everyday I spend a few minutes going through the possible spam list and comb out the false positives. Askimet was good but Defensio went one step further by incorporating the color codes and hiding confirmed spam. This dramatically reduced the amount of data I had to go trough now thus improving my admin experience. ...

openSUSE 10.3 is now available in the form of live cd. Both the KDE and GNOME live cds contain the same software as the single cd installation versions. Both are distributed in 32bit versions and only available in US english. openSUSE is currently my favorite desktop distro due it’s speed, clean interface and superb community support. The openSUSE official site and openSUSE community wiki both have an abandonce of articles to help you setup and configure your perfect openSUSE desktop. ...

I was configuring XDMCP for some of my linux boxes today, when I noticed that gdm only returns the kernel version, and not some useful info like the amount of users & machine load that Solaris does. ...

I am from Cameron Highlands, leaved there my whole life and moved to the city about 6 years back. It was good to go home and enjoy the weather, food and the people there. If I could find something to do there in IT I would move back now. The trip was fun but at the same time I felt sad to see my once beautiful hometown now being transformed into a tourist attraction. There are shops all over the place now like mushrooms, prices going up, buildings coming up all over the place blocking the beautiful views, camping grounds being changed to food stores and souvenirs shops, waterfalls disappearing and much much more…….. The only thing left to enjoy now is the cold weather and the clean air. This will not be for long, over the past 6 years the temperature has raised about 3 degrees. So, imagine with all the new destruction in the name of tourism what would happen in the next 10 years. O ya one more thing, Camerons once boasted that it was a favorite amongst foreigners but not anymore. I hardly saw any foreigners this time. They come for the nature, you take it away and they have no reason to come back. It’s all for the local tourist now. They come, mess the place up and leave. sigh…………. See come pictures from my trip on the next page.

Finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1 today. Needed quite a few tweaks here and there but everything seems to be holding togather now. Over the next week I’ll be fine tuning the functionality side of things so expect to see some errors. Learning the whole new Tags phenomenon now 🙂 For now these are the plug ins I have running on my shiny new WordPress installation. All in One SEO Pack Cforms II Defensio Anti-Spam FeedBurner FeedSmith Get Recent Comments Google XML Sitemaps My Dashboard Related Posts (Will be replaced by Simple Tags) Simple Tags Sociable Subscribe To Comments Tag Suggest Thing Ultimate Google Analytics WordPress Reports WordPress Reports Most Active Widget