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blog reorg

Friday, 14 December 2007 8:35 am by noel
posted in internet, wordpress

i think i need to reorganize/consolidate my blogs. i have a couple more someplace else and it may be time to put them all in one place for easier maintenance.
i’m getting tired of posting to three places (or is it four?). and more is not necessarily better. its just more.

filezilla and yahoo

Thursday, 29 November 2007 9:03 am by noel
posted in internet, software, wordpress

if you’re on yahoo! web hosting and trying to upload your wordpress installation files via ftp it may interest you to know that, apparently, yahoo doesn’t like a lot of simultaneous ftp connections from a single ip address. i found that out when i was trying to upload a set of wordpress upgrade files to [...]

fox leaks memory

Thursday, 29 November 2007 7:19 am by noel
posted in internet, software

firefox on ubuntu leaks a lot of memory — maybe more than when i was running it in windows.

so my regimen now would be after visiting a few websites i close-open firefox. tedious i know. and opera is available in ubuntu. i have that installed also but i don’t use it enough for everyday work [...]

pldt slow part 2

Tuesday, 20 November 2007 6:16 pm by noel
posted in internet

i got a report that a pldt contractor dropped by the site again to check the connection. he suggested that the reason the connection to the internet is slow is because there are too many people sharing the connection.
i’ve heard this load of crap before and apparently so did the client’s representative that was coordinating [...]

gmail @ 5 gig

Tuesday, 20 November 2007 2:37 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet

is it just me or has anyone noticed that gmail’s space counter jumped to 5 gig? compared to yahoo’s “unlimited” space, 5 gig is “small”. but heck, 5 gig is still plenty.