stuff on software

yahoo permalinks plug-in

Tuesday, 11 December 2007 9:03 am by noel
posted in software, wordpress

the stock customizable permalink plug-in that yahoo! webhosting provides with their wordpress installation is not compatible with wordpress 2.3.x. It apparently stems from the new way 2.3.x handles canonical urls. a trouble ticket has been submitted to yahoo! by a wp user and y! employee and  mark has a post about it and a plug-in [...]

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 [...]

ubuntu in the mail

Sunday, 18 November 2007 6:39 pm by noel
posted in linux, software, stuff

i got my free ubuntu cds from canonical the other day. yey!

and stickers too! four of them.
thanks to shipit.
the strange thing is that the mail came from the netherlands. i was expecting to get it from the philippines or at the least — asia. i guess canonical doesn’t have partners here yet.
i can be. (hint [...]

a letter from papt

Saturday, 17 November 2007 6:04 pm by noel
posted in software, stuff

i got this letter from the pilipinas anti-piracy team (papt) just last week. i’m reproducing the content here:
october 17, 2007
mr. noel
it consultant
subject: alert on copyright infringement handling

reference: republic act 8293 — intellectual property code of the philippines
we have obtained evidence proving that recently there is widespread selling of pirated products in such forms as cd, [...]