Monthly Archives: May 2007

I’ve always wanted to be a writer

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

Since I can remember. Which is why it was very difficult for me to make the decision to finally decide to forego contributing to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Partly because I had been doing it off and on for five … Continue reading →

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Server RAM Upgrade. Again.

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

From the server grease monkeys at my host: Hi Gabriel, I logged into your server to investigate the problem and I've found that you're in dangerous territory concerning memory: > root@exchange:~# free -m > total used free shared buffers cached … Continue reading →

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Trying to install USB NIC on PII Laptop (updated)

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

By a stroke of luck I managed to score a cheap, small and good condition IBM 600e, a PII with adequate horsepower for minor coding and quite importantly, writing. It's got Xubuntu now, and I've found out a battery repack … Continue reading →

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Annoying WordPress Permalinks Error Since Server Move

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

Warning, highly techie post. All those looking for my usual touchy feely posts please move along now, nothing to see here. Just documenting a disaster of a Permalinks error on WordPress below, which I posted at the WordPress Forum. Posting … Continue reading →

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A Server To Move The World

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

Today's the 3rd day after The Big Server Move And to those who don't really know what I'm talking about, it's the day I moved my domain Exchange.ph from just - barely - handling - it hosting at Mobilehive.com to … Continue reading →

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Sunshine

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Gabriel

Sunshine is a story about a group of scientists and astronauts sent out to space 50 years from now to fix the sun via exploding a bomb into it. First they have to get there of course, and no they … Continue reading →

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OpenDNS Rocks the Mike Right

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

John Roberts of OpenDNS was kind enough to drop by to educate my behind on OpenDNS' ability to refresh their cache, and consequently pointed me to cache.opendns.com, where I found the culprit! I cleared that out, and apparently only Kikay … Continue reading →

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Just a few quick thoughts before I hie off to ZZZ land

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

Day 2 of the big server move is highlighted by three issues. Turns out php's default 8mb allocation was the culprit when I was doing stuff like accessing wp-admin's pages and it was returning white empty pages. I bumped it … Continue reading →

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Today’s the Big Day

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

wish me luck! update: as of 17:46 I've managed to upload everything, and finally changed the DNS entries to point to my new host. Although the recommended waiting period is 12 hours it should probably be ok before midnight. Meanwhile … Continue reading →

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How I Moved Everything to Lefthandedlayup.com

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Gabriel Mercado

If you entered Pisces-iscariot on your browser, or otherwise clicked a link going to Pisces-iscariot, please don't adjust your sets. This is now my new blog, which I've moved to partly to separate my personal blog from the Exchange.ph domain … Continue reading →

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