I had to transfer 2 WordPress blogs to another hosting provider last night, as the free one is going to expire today. It should be as easy as:

Transfer the files
Transfer the database
Change DNS servers in registry to the new DNS servers
Configure the new hosting location

In a few hours after the DNS propagation is finished I [...]

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PHP does not have any SMTP authentication mechanism in its configuration, and most developer opt for PEAR packages to perform email sending via custom ports and SMTP authentication.
I am one of those who will avoid using external packages as much as possible unless really necessary, and of course because I wanted a quick solution to [...]

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If you’re one of the SysAdmins working for Maxis, and you celebrated the recent System Administrator’s Appreciation day, you should really think about your future. SysAdmins are supposed to make people life’s easier, not the other way round.
Maxis has been implementing transparent proxy for some time now, I think to save on bandwidth usage as [...]

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I wanted to be able to use my personal laptop to check my work email, so that I don’t have to carry around the 3kg DELL beast all the time. Sure, I can use the Blackberry but typing long emails on it can prove painful especially with fat fingers.
I have VPN access, but Cisco (official) [...]

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While attempting to compile djbdns 1.05 and daemontools 0.76 on a CentOS 5.5 I received the error:

/usr/bin/ld: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in envdir.o

The problem can be eliminated by adding:

-include /usr/include/errno.h

In conf-cc files for each tarball. Don’t forget to install gcc first, if you have a basic installation.
By the way, [...]

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I was trying to post 3 used items for sale yesterday, but managed to do only 2 because I still don’t have access to the 3rd item’s photographs.
I posted 2 items:
1. Polygon Zero 2007

Region: Selangor
Name: Ady Romantika
Email: adyromantika@XXXXXX.com
Telephone number: 01XXXXXXXXX, not shown in the ad
Category: Other Vehicles, For sale
Subject: Polygon Zero 2007
IC Number:XXXXXXXXX
Post code:63000
Text:
Selling my [...]

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It has been a while since I posted something technical so here goes. This article is meant for someone who has done PHP development before, and already has a web server and a working PHP installation.
Traditionally in the old days these are the things that I do to debug my PHP code:

Put in extra echo [...]

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Facebook is an application, so it’s normal that it has glitches and problems.
The first one I saw last week while writing a like button plugin is the incorrect number of likes a like button displays:

It’s obvious there were 4 likes for the post but it randomly displays 2 of my friends. When not logged on, [...]

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Today, I saw that Facebook introduced some new features, and one intriguing feature is called “Facebook Social Plugin“. It would be very interesting to have blog posts to be simply “liked”, and having information displayed about activities and recommendations related to your website.
So I decided to take 30 minutes of my break time and write [...]

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There is something very wrong with the wireless module on the DELL Precision M4300 I am currently using - after a while files begin to get corrupted and Windows will fail to write the event log. I have just had the motherboard changed by DELL last Monday. In the office I did not have any [...]

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You can consider this as an honest and sincere opinion from me, as a Malaysian and a heavy Internet user. Maybe, if Rais reads this it will be much fun.
It’s all because of this news article: Malaysians advised against being immersed in Facebook, Twitter.
In twitter, the tag #yorais has been spreading like mad. The tweets [...]

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No, you don’t need to. This morning I struggled to convince someone that the server does not need a reboot. It was because of this: Increasing the number of file handles on Linux workstations.
ulimit - Provides control over the resources available to the shell and to processes started by it, on systems that allow such [...]

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Borrowing Google’s term - I have lately been using a flaky connection when connecting to the Internet. What I noticed is that my Yahoo! Messenger list becomes static and no custom messages are being updated. When I looked at my friend’s list, the custom message I set wasn’t showing. I was also not able to [...]

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For real?

The black box with two terminals is a 12V battery, and it looks like a lead-acid battery. Is it a DELL? Is it an IBM? Is it an HP? No, it is a Google. That’s right people, it’s a unit of many Google’s server inside its data center containers. It’s a 2U thick server, [...]

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I received an email yesterday:

Dear Ady Romantika
 
We see you have been a valued member since 2004-12-29. Many of our clients have
asked for a notice when we post special savings, we are pleased to provide that.
Please find the latest specials that are available for the month of February.

It’s from RegFly, a resurrection of RegisterFly [...]

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