November 26th, 2007
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Found the following hint while searching the FAQs
How do I get Firefox keywords back?
- Enter “about:config” (minus the quotation marks) into the url bar and press enter.
- Type “flock.favorites.showKeyword” (minus the quotation marks) into the “Filter” bar at the top of this window.
- Change the value to true.
Warning: the Flock configuration window contains numerous settings which, if incorrectly changed, may render Flock inoperable. Please follow these instructions exactly as indicated to avoid this risk
Now you can assign keywords to your bookmarks (err… favorites) and type them in the address bar. I assigned “fd” to my flipthedolphin.com wordpress dashboard, for example.
Get the most out of your favorite social browser, Flock on!
November 21st, 2007
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Are you a Linux master?
Do you love Bind books?
Do you know every aspect of Apache and PHP configurations?
Are you passionate about mail servers and web hosting?
Then would you like to share a VPS with me?
I’ve always been interested in the hosting business. It’s quite safe to start a hosting company nowadays, without way too much money to invest and without too much hassle for tech support and client management. There are tons of cost effective solutions for managed reseller hosting.
But lately I’ve found myself thinking about Virtual Private Servers. I’m not an expert on Linux and Apache but I think that a VPS gives you a lot more freedom than shared hosting. You don’t have limits on how you run PHP or what’s installed on your machine. You can resell whatever you want and manage your own operating system. You are the root user. It’s like owning your own machine… but you can always restore it if you break something.
The only problem is that I’d be the only one managing it. I’m sure I can’t do it all by myself. I need “a little help from my friends” but actually I know nobody with decent linux and sysadmin knowledge. So here I am: would you like to be my Pixelfriend? Are you interested in helping me to manage a VPS? I’d entirely pay for the Virtual Server and we could, eventually, come out with some sort of small business activity. I’d like to do it just “for fun” but basically I need to learn how stuff works. I need to learn how to remotely manage a system and how to setup domains, accounts and websites.
It’s a risk-free activity. You only have to collaborate with me managing the VPS linux host. Maybe we’ll build a very basic business so I will be able to pay you down the road. Maybe it will be just damn funny.
Think about it and let me know
November 6th, 2007
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Flock 1.0 browser has been released for windows, mac and linux. Well, a while ago to tell the truth. But today I found out that there is a .deb package for the 64 bit version, ready to be grabbed and installed in your Linux Ubuntu Gutsy distribution.
November 1st, 2007
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After getting the 1.0 RC3 release of Flock, a few days ago, I posted a suggestion to the Flock team:
Hello there! I think there is need for a “a-la google” browser sync extension… or feature perhaps.
It would be great to do changes at local bookmarks, accounts and feeds while using the laptop… and having them mirrored in the desktop as soon as we fire the holy browser up!
This would be terrific! Think about it.
Evan replied with:
Hello,
Thanks for the suggestion! We definitely see the benefit in this and will be seriously considering it in the future.
Flock on
Follow the discussion here.
October 26th, 2007
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I managed to switch to another hosting provider without going offline for a single minute. This is zero downtime but there may be minor glitches all over the site.
Let me show you why:
- I exported the whole old wordpress 2.2 database in XML format and then reimported it in wordpress 2.3. Had to delete the categories and fix the database with a plugin before doing so as the resulting import was incomplete. So any site linking to a dead category will receive a 404 error page. Sorry but had to clean this blog up.
- I changed the wordpress folder on the server from
/wordpress/ to simply /wordpress/ and set up a permanent redirect (301) for such folders via cPanel
- I created hotlinking protection for images, css and javascript files via the htaccess code generator and put it inside my
.htaccess manually. I let feedburner take my images but I’m really not that sure it will work… notify me if you don’t see images in feeds
- I tested the feeds and upgraded to feedburner feedsmith 2.3
- Still have to fine tune the feedflare code since it’s not displaying correctly
- The robots meta plugin does not work at all… will have to find a way to fix it since it’s a really useful plugin. The re-activation method did not make it
So now I have this brand new blog, cleaned up and with bandwidth protections on. I think I’ll also benefits from canonical urls but I have to admit that I don’t know how to use them… do I have to modify my .htacess file manually or does wordpress do the magic?
Think I’ll fix things up in the next weeks.
October 25th, 2007
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Since I’m moving this site (and this site alone) to another hosting provider, I’ll be doing some tweak and fix… so there will be downtimes and service interruptions. As you can see I no longer have categories: I’m going to re-categorize my past posts (and delete many of them) while moving towards Wordpress 2.3. I’ll be adding tags as well.
Meanwhile this blog should remain 80% usable. Happy reading.
