Many WordPress themes, including Suffusion, show links to next and previous posts by default. This is a nice feature to have but in my opinion not a deal-breaker if it is missing. One thing that annoyed me a bit was that those links were not category sensitive.… Read the rest
One thing that got my attention after installing Google analytics was bounce rate. The amount of visitors that see the first, landing, page of the site and leave. The shortest and most accurate description for bounce rate I did encounter was ‘I came, I puked, I left’.… Read the rest
During my usage of Drupal I had almost negligible amount of comment spam. About one or two per month. Those comments were usually containing some links to not so useful web pages. I got used to removing those comments manually. After running my website on WordPress for a few days I got about 10 spam comments.… Read the rest
After working out where I should add ads on my web page, as described in wordpress and adsense this layout needed implementation. To keep everything maintainable I looked for some widget that I could use. Simply copying Google supplied code into relevant places can be messy for upgrades.… Read the rest
Second issue, that made me move from Drupal to WordPress was idea to add adsense advertising to my website. That issue was not really critical, and can best be described as ‘why not?’. Many sites use some kind of advertising, almost everyone is used to it, for those, who do not like ads there are browser plugins to disable it.… Read the rest
After careful consideration I decided to migrate my small website from Drupal to WordPress. The main reason why I selected Drupal some Years ago was it’s modules and programmability. Actually I did not program it at all. But I did use some modules. … Read the rest
When starting spamassassin with empty sql database You can see
‘WARN: bayes: database version is different than we understand (3), aborting!’ in logs.
It should be read as ‘database is too empty’.Spamassassin stores its database version number in database. If it can not find its database version, it dies.… Read the rest
Had to have a sphinx 1.10-beta rpm for CentOS 5. All good, just download. But the same machine also needed an updated PHP package. Which depended on MySQL 5.1. Downloaded those from www.jasonlitka.com
Sphinx 1.10-beta depends on MySQL 5.0 from CentOS. … Read the rest
Controlling temperature in a room can be a complicated task.
It depends on the room obviously, conditions needed in that room, the amount and types of sensors installed etc.
For keeping this system somewhat general, as there should be no artificial limits, starting from simple solutions and then adding complexity seems the way to go. Also this system should still work if some non essential sensors fail.
The system this device is intended to control, composes of a heating element and a heat carrier which distributes heat around the room.
If, trying to do rpm -e You get
error: "package" specifies multiple packages
and looking for that package Your rpm database lists it twice or more