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How to clear the qmail queue

by: WanderingTechy September 2, 2009

I recently needed to clear down a qmail queue.  There were no valid emails on the server but the queue was full of failed spam (blocked)
This script clears the queue.

Website Pricing Frustration (Rant)

by: WanderingTechy September 1, 2009

I don’t know about you but when you think “I wonder how much that costs” you immediately go onto google and search for the product in question.
Today, I was wondering about the cost of vegetable oil in bulk for use in a heating system.  Don’t ask me why as that is another blog in its [...]

New Theme, New problems

by: WanderingTechy August 17, 2009

I installed this new theme today as I am going to be expanding the blog.  Rather than start a new one I decided to make this one my general blog.  The new theme works well as all do from iThemes but…

wp-spamfree for no spam

by: WanderingTechy July 29, 2009

I was generating a list of comment spam IP’s with a view to creating some blocking software.  However I just found wp-spamfree and installed it 3 days ago and have had not spam to generate the ip list from since.

How to RickRoll WordPress Spammers

by: WanderingTechy February 12, 2009

Fed up of a Persistant spammer, This is how to RickRoll Persistant WordPress Spammers.

Header images and titles

by: WanderingTechy February 5, 2009

As you can see by looking at the top of this page I am no graphics artist or photography expert. At the risk of being very cheeky, If anyone can offer an image to replace the above one I would be incredibly grateful and will of course provide full credit and a link [...]

Blogging tip – Links

by: WanderingTechy January 14, 2009

Remember when posting a link to another site to set the link to open in a new window. I was losing visitors who I referred to another site and they didn’t come back Beginners error which I don’t make on my wiki’s for some reason. I think Wordpress should default [...]

Holy Crap – We need to keep all email logs for a year

by: WanderingTechy January 10, 2009

Government requires ISP’s to keep a record of all Email passing through its network for a year.

New to Blogging? Check this site out

by: WanderingTechy January 10, 2009

Being new to blogging I thought I would have a quick look around to see if there are any hints and tips that will help me make an interesting site and get the most out of WordPress. I found this site “ProBlogger.net” which has a very handy page here “Blogging Tips for Beginners” [...]

Periodic Table

by: WanderingTechy December 28, 2008

Whilst read “A Short History of Everything ” by Bill Bryson I got to wondering how each of the elements were discovered. WikiPedia to the rescue. It provides a wonderful periodic table with each element linked to a wiki page containing details. Cost me almost a full days work reading through.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
What suprised me most was [...]