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Adsense without plugin in Wordpress

You still did not find a good Adsense plugin for Wordpress? Read this article and do it yourself! Adapt your theme for Adsense injected gently in your posts, widget and in your post index. The result can you see on this site. I don’t use any Adsense plugin anymore. [adsense]
The advantage of …
Configuring Wordpress 3 with Multisite and second-level domains

I would like to test if it works to serve more websites from one Wordpress installation. By default Wordpress supports subdomains (like Wordpress.com) but I would like to run the installation with second-level domains (SLD). This is described in this article. Maybe in the future Wordpress will …
Wildcard domains DNS and local WAMP for website development

When developing websites on a local WAMP installation, I often need control over the DNS. It is no problem to add a hostname to the Windows hosts file, but a wildcard in the domain does not work. For example you need a wildcard domain when installing Wordpress Multisite locally with subdomains. …
Disable the update of a Wordpress plugin

One of my Wordpress plugins had often bad functioning updates (Organize Series). With this updates I had to recover the corrupted database by hand. A lot of work. It is possible to ignore the updates, but you make easily the mistake to update it with the others.
To protect you to this, it is …
Monitoring network traffic per program in Windows

Currently I have to use a pretty slow mobile internet connection. And sometimes a program is using a lot of my bandwidth. This means that I am unable to open websites or I have to wait very long. This is annoying. So I was searching for a method to monitor the network traffic per program.
Netstat …
Ubuntu: Installing Zend Framework with NetBeans

To install Zend Framework is not as straight forward like other PHP Frameworks. Also to install it with NetBeans it was not described very well on blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp site. Let’s start!
My assumption is that NetBeans is installed already on Ubuntu. I used NetBeans 6.9.1 and Ubuntu …
Tips to spindown your hard disk in Debian or Ubuntu

Before we are going into depth, first check if the (external) hard disk is able to go in spindown. Disable all services which has disk access periodically, for example:
$ /etc/init.d/asterisk stop
$ /etc/init.d/rsyslog stop
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
$ /etc/init.d/mysql stop
$ /etc/init.d/samba …
Debian root on a flash disk and the data on a hard disk
This article is about installing Debian on a flash disk, like SD card, flash disk, Solid State Disk etc. The goal is to have the data on a hard disk. This will increase the lifetime of the flash disk.
Assumption of this article is that Debian is already installed on a flash disk in the root …
Sheevaplug boot from SD card fails on power up
After installing Debian on SD card, it was booting successfully with the ‘run bootcmd’. But when I switched off the power and plugged in again, I was getting the following error messages:
Error! cmd : 8, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err …