December 4, 2007 late at night
· Filed under spam, wordpress, wordpress plugin
Since I installed hashcash plugin for this wordpress.org blog site, comment spam has dropped to zero. So, it is effective indeed.
The wordpress hashcash plugin is easy to set up and less intrusive as Capicha! plugins. However, it seems to be a surge of trackback spams after hashcash plugin choked comment spam inflow. Could it be the spammer actually has logic to detect hashcash plugin in their automation scripts?
I am uite sure the surge is only in eyes of the observer. guess I’d need to bite the bullet and apply for a wordpress.com API key, then enable kismet.
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October 17, 2007 in the late evening
· Filed under consumer rights, rant, trendnet, wireless router
A replacement TEW-432BRP wireless router finally came from Trendnet via FedEx. I experienced random reset on an apparently defective TEW-432BRP wireless router. With my first report of the problem, Trendnet promptly asked to RMA it.
Minor gripes of the RMA process and the replacement unit 
- I had to mail the unit back in my own expense first. $8.95 with USPS first class including $0.65 for receipt confirmation. The ‘Free after MIR (mail-in rebate)” price tag motivated my purchase at first place. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 29, 2007 around mid afternoon
· Filed under wordpress
After in-place upgrading this wordpress blog site to the latest 2.3 from 2.2.3 recently, I noticed a problem: auto-save generated an error at the bottom of the WYSIWYG editor window. I said ‘Google search’ turned up nothing, that was true for Google web search and Google group search. When I searchc against blogs, I found some wordpress.org developer discussion about this table being deprecated as of 2.3 release. wonder why auto-save code still uses it. Today, even ‘Google web search’ turned up a few entries. One of them are this deprecated post2cat table caused problem for UFW tag plugin. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 28, 2007 in the wee hours
· Filed under live journal, site_news, wordpress
Wordpress 2.3 was out this past Tuesday. I waited two days to be sure no major gotchas in terms of upgrade hurdles as well as security patches. Well, the in-place upgrade went smoothly. However, , I ran into a database problem about a missing table when editing the first new post, aka, this very post, though. Google turned up nothing!
Upgraded the site in-place this morning from wordpress 2.2.3 to wordpress 2.3, to get the following two new features. There are more new features, plus tons of bug fixes. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 19, 2007 in the wee hours
· Filed under trendnet, wireless router
After three weeks use of the Trendnet TEW-432BRP wireless router, I experienced more serious problems.
- The unit resets itself randomly (every several hours or less than a couple of minutes). The computers/laptops behind it see ‘network disconnected’ then ‘network connected’, for both wireless and wired connections. No reasons were logged in the router log besides the fact it resets. All front LEDs go off dark then back on. Read the rest of this entry »
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