Category: Technology

I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.

Upgraded to WordPress 1.5.1

As recently promised I’ve upgraded to WordPress version 1.5.1. The process went very smooth and fast – something that I was missing with Nucleus. Most of the things work. Actually, the only bit broken is the BAStats plugin, which visitors don’t see and which is a beta anyway. So I don’t have any hard feelings.

The site seems slightly faster and more responsive indeed. There are still issues with my MySQL and Apache optimization, but I’ll get to it one day too.

If you see any glitches after the upgrade, please let me know via comments.

WordPress 1.5.1 is out!

There is an announcement of WordPress 1.5.1 at WordPress Development blog. In short, there were over 170 bug fixes, 1 important security fix, and several speed improvements. Changelog is available in two formats: short version and long version.

I myself haven’t seen any WordPress bugs (or I can’t remember any), but I sure could use some speed-ups and query optimizations. This site is getting more and more popular and I can see the load on the database already. Hopefully it’ll get cut a bit with the new version. I’ll be upgrading shortly.

konsole is faster than xterm

I was scrolling through Planet KDE when I saw this post by Kurt Pfeifle. He was saying exactly this:

So we were both very surprised. to see konsole not only being close to xterm’s performance, but being more than double as efficient!

Since I hear a lot of people praising xterm, and since I use konsole on the daily basis, I decide to see if what Kurt says actually works for me. The moment I started konsole and xterm together, I noticed that I have one additional area of interest – background transparency. I am using konsole’s “Transparent, Dark Background” scheme, so I wanted to see if that slows me down by any considerable time compared to the plain setup.

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Sage Atom/RSS aggregator

If you are one of those people who beleive that Atom/RSS aggregation should be a part of the browser, than try Sage. It is an extension for Firefox, which supports all the usual bells and whistles. Additionally, it supports scaling images to fit in to the window, the way Firefox does it. This post has a screenshot.