Category: Announcements

  • Trying to Tune Apache

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m trying to improve the responsiveness of Operation Gadget so that the site’s larger pages load faster. Today, I decreased the Apache “Timeout” parameter and turned on “KeepAlive”, which for some reason was never enabled. If you are seeing an improvement when you are looking at the Mobile Phones or Fitness…

  • Fixed Broken Comment Submission Mechanism

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night, a reader sent the following message: Hi, I was trying to post a comment about the Lansing 2.0 speakers, and got this error An error occurred:Undefined subroutine &jayallen::Blacklist::comment_post_hdlr called at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/plugins/Blacklist.pl line 115. Thanks for the tip, Kevin. I decided to upgrade the MT-Blacklist plugin on the production server…

  • May 3 – 9, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of May 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • April 26 – May 2, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the last week of April 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • April 19 – 25, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fourth week of April 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • April 12 – 18, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the third week of April 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • April 5 – April 11, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of April 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • Nearly Back to Normal

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI spent my free time this weekend converting fully adopting Fedora Core 1 as my laptop’s operating system. I did this for a number of reasons: I had to rebuild my laptop last week because my hard disk was dying, I’d rather run a modern, up-to-date Linux distribution than Windows XP, I…

  • March 29 – April 4, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of April 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…