Jiwei Wang’s Notepad

After installing Google Toolbar on my Firefox (version 3.6), the Firefox search tab mysteriously disappeared.  I was amazed (cannot find a better word) that the search tab cannot be found in the Firefox “Customize Toolbar”. Now the only search tab I can use is the Google Toolbar tab.
Well, admittedly Google Toolbar has a nice functions, [...]

Tags: Browser, Config, Conspiracy Theory, Customize, Different Computer, Double Click, Firefox, Google, Google Toolbar, Googling, Image, Location Bar, Lost, Menu Bar, Navigation Toolbar, Right Click Menu, Search Google, Search Tab, Type Search, Word Search

Apache is not adequate in restricted environment
As I said earlier, on a HostIcan VPS, my applications were running unbearably slow and erratically. I was determined to get it right even with the hard RAM limitation. BTW, I found VPSLink offers the most affordable package and reliable servers, use the referral code CSR42P to get a [...]

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I have a few busy websites running Wordpress, phpBB, phpList, eTicket, Magento and other PHP/MySQL based scripts. I get close to 1M hits a month with a peak observed at 9 hits/second.  A shared hosting won’t work for me anymore.  A dedicated server is too expensive and perhaps an over-kill. So I set off to [...]

Tags: 1m, Apache, apache log, Bumpy Ride, dedicated server, Drawback, eTicket, Fedora, Free Money, Frustrations, Hiccups, hostican, Last Straw, Lifetime Discount, Magento, Manageability, money back guarantee, monitoring software, MySQL, OpenVZ, parallels, PHP, phpBB, phpList, Private Server, Promotion Code, Rage, Redhat, Referral Promotion, reseller package, response latency, root password, virtual private server, virtualization, Virtuozzo, VPS, VPS-Rage, VPSLink, wordpress, Xen

There are basically three ways to publish your blog with WordPress.

Open an account on a blog service such as http://wordpress.com/. This is the easiest to set up.  But you cannot always customize to your heart’s content and you don’t earn from AdSense.
Run WordPress on your own server at home.  You really emerge yourself in the [...]

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The first thing you have to consider after installing WordPress and starting writing is to backup and restore your database.  I started with WordPress Database Backup 2.1.5, which was rated highly on WordPress.org.  It turned out to cause me tremendous grief when migrating to a different server. The primary issue is that some tables are not [...]

Tags: Backup Restore, Database Backup, Dbmanager, Drop Tables, Gamerz, Grief, Job, Optimization, P4, wordpress, Wp