Comment and trackback spam, content theft, splogs, are constant threats to the consistency of the blog content and also a common headache of bloggers. Recently, Lorelle published a list, or better a review, of plugins that prevent spam from reaching the public pages of a WordPress blog. As usual, her article is great, but there…
G-Loaded! has always been a supporter of the Atom Syndication Format, more specifically of the Atom 1.0 Specification, because of its flexibility and extended features. Although this specification has been around for quite a while now, it has not been fully adobted by the major web indexing services or by popular web applications yet.
I am not sure if WordPress always supported scheduling a post for publishing in the future or if it is a new feature of the latest releases. I am quite sure though that I didn’t know about this, until today.
Yesterday, I wrote about my need to be always connected to an IRC channel in order to keep a log of the chat even when I don’t follow the conversation in real-time. Under the given circumstances and not taking into account the possibility to keep my desktop machine always on, so XChat can log everything,…
One of the things in which I never reached a decent level of knowledge is IRC. I mean I know the basic stuff in order to connect to servers, join channels, send/receive files etc. What I know nothing of is actually IRC server or channel administration… I am not going to learn or write more…
When it comes to business – despite the recent Microsoft-Novell deal -, interoperability and maximum compatibility between two major Linux distributions are of significant importance, as they can lead to less maintenance time, effort, trouble and costs. Having written that, I consider this article, which describes how to create RPM packages and initscripts that are…
I am glad to announce that I have released the first stable version (v1.0) of my Add-Meta-Tags plugin for WordPress.
WordPress v2.1 has been officially released a few days ago and, as you may have noticed, I have upgraded my website. A little tweaking to some of the plugins was necessary though but, hopefully, everything is in place and working fine now. I wonder why all these small issues with the latest wordpress releases or…
What happens when you are completely out of free time, you are told that the web application that powers your website has a serious security issue, but as soon as you upgrade you discover that something weird is going on with the site feeds? In such situations I can only be sure about one thing:…
Those who use a SELinux enabled distribution – more specifically those who have set the SELinux security layer to enforcing mode – will most probably know about the auditd daemon (part of the audit package in Fedora Core). By default, all SELinux messages are recorded to the syslog, but when auditd is running, then all…