- Tip: Set your Glype tmp, logs and cache folders outside the web root. No, chmod’ing to 700 won’t work, lol.
- WTF: Uneven Google!
- Useful: Fairly decent and promising project: proxycoder.com
- Useful: 100 quality Wordpress themes
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Over the last few months I kept bumping into a “challenge” on Triond: people are either trying to get 1,000 articles by the end of 2010 or make $1,000 in any given 30 days (there are at least two versions of the challenge). Judging by my not-so-good experience with Triond, to say the least, I might say these people are fucking nuts.
I almost shat a brick when I heard of writing 1,000 articles for Triond. My ever best paid article with them is some fashion writeup that brought me a whopping *drumrolls* $0.93 in one and a half years. Yes, that’s 93 cents, I shit you not. Multiply that by 1,000 and my top earnings would be $930 for 1,000 articles. Thanks but no, thanks, I can sell them on DP for $3-4,000.
The second version is even scarier. At a pay rate of $1-$2 per 1,000 views, you’d need 1,000,000 hits per month for the $1,000 mark. And no, traffic exchanges don’t count. So good luck spamming your friends on FB–1M hits in a month is a lot of traffic!
I’d rather post 1K articles on my own sites or even sell them for hard, cold cash. So no, I’ll pass this challenge.
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Piece of code that queries EZA for a given string and grabs an article at random from the first results page. Again, this is slow as fuck and shouldn’t be used for production sites.
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Who says you need UBot to run basic scraping tasks? Here’s a trivial script that scrapes centurian.org. It’s unoptimized (i.e. slow as fuck) but it still does a great job.
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ProFTPD doesn’t allow resuming of uploads out of the box. Here’s a quick hack around it: edit the config file (usually /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf, but can depend on your distro) and add
AllowOverwrite on
AllowRetrieveRestart on
AllowStoreRestart on
Restart the server and you’re done.
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Creativity fail or uber leet unorthodox marketing skills?
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A while ago, our former hosting company took a crap and decided to close the joint. Luckily we weren’t running any money sites on that server, so the loss wasn’t so big. Yet, we lost pleech.com. On the bright side, all some posts are cached by Big G, so everything something will be back. In a while. Stay tuned!
I never thought the Haiti disaster would be exploited by marketers. Looks like these guys have found a way of spreading their FB spam tool. And capture leads at the same time. How do you spell unscrupulosity?
A while ago I ran across ptcnow.info and, must admit, the sales page lured me into buying the ebook. The $14.97 seemed reasonable, considering the advantages outlined there. The Seller advertises the ebook as being “For all audiences from beginners to PROs”. I have been in the PTC industry for several years already and, must say, this was one of the very few lines that made me buy the book. I hoped for some clueful, insightful information. All I got instead was some “you need to advertise to get referrals” mumbo-jumbo. → Continue
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We’ll post a review of the ebook some time this evening. A straightforward and no-BS/sales hype one. Stay tuned 
