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It’s alive! The battle with web10.nu

ScratchMyTail — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:47:15 +0000

Scratchmytail.com has been down for a couple of months now (if you haven’t noticed). I’ve had enough, so I chose to move my files to a new provider, Pro ISP. My old provider, Web10.nu, claimed that some of my files were generating spam. So I decided to remove all the content and re-install WordPress. After a couple of days they shut it down again, and so it went on for almost two months. I got tired of arguing with their support team when they claimed that my empty hotel generated spam. How can an empty web hotel generate spam? Crazy invicible scripts perhaps?

Anyways, ProISP is cheap and very good. Take a look at their homepage ProISP.no for more details.

Downtime caused by spam

ScratchMyTail — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:44:57 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I received a mail stating that my site generated spam. I have now removed all random scripts and is currently hosting WordPress alone. Hopefully the problem is fixed so they (web10.nu) don’t have to deactivate the site again.

Whats up doc?

ScratchMyTail — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:33:47 +0000

Oh my god is this a post? Yeah, I know, haven’t been able to post that much on my awesome blog lately. To keep it short, school is a bitch. I am currently working on three mandatory assignments, first deadline is 15th April and the last is 22nd April. This is hopefully my last mandatory assignments ever. So what are these assignments about? Well, I am going to write three papers. The first paper is about Face Recognition, quite interesting actually (finished). The second paper is about Publish/Subscribe systems, this one is also quite interesting (almost done). The third and last one is about optimizing and testing different Hadoop configurations, quite interesting but alot of work I think (haven’t started). Maybe I’ll post them on my blog so that you nerdy readers can check them out.

I still don’t have a chosen problem for my master thesis. Hopefully I’ll have it ready before the summer. I’ll see you later innovator!

WordPress you are awesome

ScratchMyTail — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:15:19 +0000

Today I finally decided to install WordPress version 2.7. I have never used any blog engine before so this is my first try using one. So far (couple of hours) I am very impressed by the choice I made. Previous blogs I’ve had running were homemade. I never finished programming the functionality in those so they were kind of crappy. What I have learned is: Why program the whole system yourself from scratch when you can download WordPress for free? The number of plugins available for WordPress is also one of the main reasons why I chose it.

Changing theme is very simple, you just copy the theme folder into /wp-contents/themes. The theme I’m running now is called Plainscape. It doesn’t contain any images so it’s very lightweight which is awesome. Keeping the theme lightweight will probably not overload this poor web-server I’m using. I will probably test more themes in search of the perfect one.

Another reason why I chose this engine is because of the native WordPress application you can download for the iPhone. The application is available for free in App Store. Now I can post blog posts with images from everywhere without access to a computer.

Stay tuned in my new ninja-blog.