When I wrote about windows counterparts for useful UNIX/Linux utilites, I found an unexpected TCP connection to 216.49.88.156:80 on my home computer running Windows XP SP2. Running netstat with the magic ‘-b’ switch revealed the connection was used by MpfTray.exe, which is the systray application for Mcafee Security Center.
TCP 10.1.1.8:2133 216.49.88.156:80 ESTABLISHED 1524 [MpfTray.exe] Read the rest of this entry »
A Google AdSnse text link is added to the top of the page, right below the blog title. Look at top of this page, you shall see it. The stying and such is a copy+paste of SEO Dave’s Google Adsense unit code from page.php into header.php, in his famous adsense-spiked almost-springs wordpress theme. Read the rest of this entry »
This site runs wordpress 2.1 on Fedora Core Linux 6/i386. Wordpress 2 allows the site owner or author to receive email for new comments added to their posts. Postfix is the MTA (Mail Transport Agent) on this server instead of the default sendmail. Whenever the wordpress.org server attempts to send email alerts, SELinux audit warnings show up in system log at /var/log/messages as well as kernel messages (dmesg). Read the rest of this entry »
On a new Fedora Core Linux 6/i386 server, I had some problem installing and running Hobbit server using my own home-made Hobbit Monitor rpm. The rpm was built for FC6 using the rpm spec file included with the source tree. Hobbit won’t start or stop properly, and won’t listen on TCP/1984. I eventualy found the problem and fixed it. Read the rest of this entry »
Under wordpress 2.1, uploading options is set under Options/Miscellaneous. The option name is probably a misnomer, since it is nothing else but uploading options. Anyhow, therein default directory to store upload is shown as /wp-content/uploads. However, when I uploaded an image file from the visual editor, the picture ended up under /wp-content/ directory on a wordpress 2.1 server just upgraded from wordpress 2.0.7 on Fedora Core Linux 6. No ‘uploads’ directory is there either 
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