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Comment on guake terminal application fails with guake.schemas error on ubuntu 10.10 by Juan

Juan — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:47:45 +0000

Thank you, works like a charm.

Comment on Goodbye Nokia, it’s been nice knowing you. by MoonChild

MoonChild — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:58:43 +0000

Nokia, in my honest opinion, has created it’s own death bed going with Windows, being an ardent Nokia user since 1997, the c5-01 I am currently using would be my last Nokia phone. I would probably opt for some Android based phones in the future. Good bye Nokia.

Comment on Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP, Zend Framework and Eclipse PDT on a Windows 7 Box by Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 14 May 2011 12:16:21 +0000

Thanks mate, very helpful for a newbie like me!

Comment on Special characters being replaced with black diamond with a question mark in it by Javier Mosquera

Javier Mosquera — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:10:55 +0000

Nope… didnt work… Sometimes it does, but if I refresh the page, it may dont work. Pretty weird.

Comment on Special characters being replaced with black diamond with a question mark in it by Javier Mosquera

Javier Mosquera — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:04:32 +0000

Not ‘my’ website, but I used your line of code. I dont know whether you’re man or woman… and I dont even care, actually… I LOVE YOU! You solved my problem.

Comment on Ubuntu Update – Evolution, too much bass, freeciv and Konquest by Diego Viegas

Diego Viegas — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:46:42 +0000

Hi,

I also use Ubuntu for some time and I’m very disappointed with later versions. Lot’s of bugs. I got to this post because I was searching for Freeciv and, guess what, I found the same of you. AIs are unbeatable! And I was thinking I was stupid, eheheh…
Txs!

Comment on Mod security and wordpress the final config by WanderingTechy

WanderingTechy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:15:38 +0000

I am sorry to disagree with you. The core ruleset it still a valuable tool and with a few extra custom rules add a worthwhile layer to the security toolchest. I shan’t be dropping it any time soon.

Comment on Mod security and wordpress the final config by Frank

Frank — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:02:36 +0000

Mod_security is a complete waste of time since they went commercial. If you search for a good ruleset you won’t find it; unless you pay up. Thanks, but no thanks. Hardening works better for me.

Comment on WP-SPAMFREE it works and requires no input from you. by WanderingTechy

WanderingTechy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:28:24 +0000

Just so you know I didn’t trust wp-spamfree initially and turned on the full logging facility. I then read through every single spam looking for real comments that had been caught and not a single one had. The great thing about opensource software is that you can can view the source code and modify it. If I had found one or two valid comments had been blocked I would have edited the source to remove the cause of these failures.

I am however very happy with wp-spamfree as it saves me having to wade through 100′s of comment spams a day in the akismet queue. I take what you mean regarding backing up and the form being blank I would also give up at that point.

I stand by my recommendation of this software however as it is extremely effective.

Comment on WP-SPAMFREE it works and requires no input from you. by Gail from GrowMap

Gail from GrowMap — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:29:50 +0000

The major problem with wp-spamfree is that you are bound to lose a lot of valid comments if you use it. Many common words are apparently blacklisted in it so anyone who happens to use one of those words will get a message that their “comment seems spammy”.

If we could back up and edit it that might not be so bad but usually when we backup the comment form is empty. I don’t know about other commentators but when that happens I would have to be extraordinarily motivated to bother to try again.