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first blog after many years...

on April 01, 2005

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after almost 4 years stop blogging...
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wordpress mu vs lifetype

this is based on my experience setting up gobloglah.com to offer free blog hosting to users. here's some features compared: first and most important (for me) is spam protection. my lifetype installation killed by spam because i cannot globbally enable spam protection for all user. while, most users care nothing more than blogging and do not know how to protect themselves from spam comment. with wpmu, you can globally enable spam protection for all users at once. so no worry about users forget or dont know how to enable spam protection. installation of wpmu takes less than 1 minute. simple and straight forward. everything works out of the box. even subdomain for each blog and nice SEO url enabled by default. i installed lifetype at least 10 minutes messing up with config files and not to count messing up .htaccess which take quite some tweak to make subdomain works. plugins. as with spam protection plugins, in lifetype, most other plugins must be setup in per user bases. in wpmu,

new Thinstall @ Citrix iForum 2006

Thinstall is sort of a portable citrix ica client. one self contained exe file allow you to connect to any Citrix server from any windows computer without installation and without needing administrator right. so it will ease administrator a lot of trouble install and troubleshoot citrix installation. it can be run in a locked down windows where users are given very limited right and cannot install other apps on their own. because, that's how it's design, its self contained and run without installation. this quoted from their email: " The upcoming release of Thinstall’s Application Virtualization Suite 3.0 will be showcased at iForum. For those who want a sneak peek, the product will be featured at Booth #510 where you can experience the unprecedented Enterprise Class Application Virtualization. " mine, i put it in usb flash disk along with all configuration required to access my citrix server. so, anywhere i go with my flash disk, i can easily manage my citrix serv

offloading wpmu themes and plugins to cdn, fast & easy, without plugins

one of many ways to speed up your wpmu is by offloading your themes and plugins url to CDN. there are many plugins to let you do this. you can also use htaccess to rewrite all your /wp-content url to cd. but i just found out, you can do it very easily without any plugins or htaccess rewrite. just edit your wp-config.php like this: define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://your.cdn.host/wp-content'); define( 'WPMU_PLUGIN_URL', 'http://your.cdn.host/wp-content/plugins'); that's all it. now all your wp-content and plugins url will be change to your.cdn.host and no cost for htaccess rewrite or plugins processing. -- tips & tricks on computers and gadgets denny on IT ; let's doIT documenting the brain

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