Purge spam comments in WordPress from the DOS command line
In this post I show how to use the MySQL command line to purge comment spam from a WordPress database.
Information Technology and Architecture
Disable wp-chron.php in WordPress and set as a scheduled task
From the wp-cron.php file: The short version is that wp-cron is a scheduler function that performs routine tasks such as checking for version updates of WordPress files, themes and plugins as well as maintenance tasks like identifying spam comments. The…
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10 Gigabit Home Networking Hardware
I recently swapped out my Infiniband 10g hardware for 10 gigabit over fiber so I snapped a few photos to post this kit on eBay. I thought I’d post them here as well for posterity’s sake. This solution was rock…
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How to Enable SNMP on ESXi 5
There are a few steps involved in getting SNMP functional on ESXi. They go something like this. Set the SNMP community string Enable the SNMP service Add necessary firewall rules Enable the added firewall rule Restart the SNMP daemon SSH…
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Installing Mellanox Connect-X 10g Ethernet (MT25418) on ESX 5.1
Part of building my ESX cluster in my garage was the addition of a 10 gigabit network for the storage layer. This storage layer allows all of the ESX hosts to talk to my FreeNAS iSCSI target which will host…
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Plague reborn in Devastation Quake ][
The last update for Plague was over fourteen years ago. My kids didn’t exist yet. The idea of my kids didn’t exist yet. But now that I am moving out of my colo and splitting my gear between a 42U…
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Create an Ubuntu AMI on Amazon Web Services with AWS utilities baked in.
I am in the middle of migrating my site out of my datacenter into Amazon Web Services and as a part of that I decided to build a WordPress site using the AWS reference architecture and best practices (more about…
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windows server clustering
I was experimenting with windows server clustering On Windows Server 2003 and snapped these photos of my lab. My intention was to build a tiered web architecture using multiple load balanced web servers for the app and web layer and…
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LAN Party Time!
I’m prepping manland to have the fellas over so the five of us can drink beer and shoot each other in the comfort of my own home. Two PCs and three laptops over low latency gigE to my local Devastation…
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Traveller MySQL databases now live and in color
Added the System Search and Library Data databases and I’ll be adding more data to both databases as time goes on, but there’s still plenty of info available now. These features basically give me an excuse to teach myself PHP/MySQL…
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