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Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to configure the WordPress cache. What I do not want to do is install a caching plugin, but rather use the functionality built into WordPress. I want to be able to cache content for a specific interval, rather than have it indefinitely remain in cache, such that new content can be served within a short time. Any help with this would be appreciated. -Nitin UPDATE: I found what I was looking for on the WordPress codex resources. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Cache is the link if anyone else is looking for a solution.

Hi!Has anyone tried running WordPress on the web server farm? More specifically, did any changes to the source code have to be made?I'm guessing that apart from configuring WordPress to use a cache server, WordPress ought to work out-of-the-box since WordPress.com hosts blogs across a 300 server farm.Any input appreciated.

We have devices that plug into the USB port and provide wireless connectivity - they are frequently referred to as USB wireless network adapters. They do not require external power and look just like a USB flash drive. We also have Ethernet-to-wireless devices, which we simply call wireless routers. I see you have an interest in computer networking. Take a walk to your local computer store and perhaps you might want to try networking through the electrical cabling of your household. You can get speeds of upto 400Mbps over wiring that you already have, which makes it a pretty good idea.

Microsoft is simply trying to create a platform that is easy to switch to for both Visual Basic and C++/Java developers. They have been quite successful at making the Microsoft .NET Framework the platform of choice for most Small and Medium sized Enterprises.

I started off reading the first couple of pages of the first book in the Harry Potter series. I read about the put-outer and the description of the streets, and I was like, "Heck, I spent 15 minutes reading the book while the movie sums it all up in under 3 seconds"... and that was the last I ever tried to read a Harry Potter book.

Why would you want to use a ziploc bag? That traps the moisture within the bag. You could just leave your phone near a table fan or any place with good air flow to allow the moisture to escape. BTW, keeping your phone in an oven is usually a bad idea because some of the plastics can be affected by the heat and may warp. You out to just the phone dry up on it's own after removing the battery.

Blogger templates are less customizable that WordPress' themes. Also, there are more themes available on WordPress so you might as well make the switch. I find the Ahimsa theme on WordPress quite appealing, with the fading sidebar Javascript effect to slide it out of the way when I want to print the current page rather than view it online with all of the sidebar links.

I inherited a WordPress theme because the previous developer on the project was on holiday and I took his place. The markup was terrible and it appeared differently on different browsers. I finally fixed the markup, ran it through the W3C validator to get absolutely zero errors.Now, that doesn't translate to appearing the same on all browsers. The CSS, which also validated perfectly well on the W3C CSS checker, was a complete mess with a couple of negative margins there, positive margins here, a bit of padding, and just about every CSS attribute the developer could've imagined. My approach was to start from the ground-up since CSS is harder to fix than XHTML/HTML. It took me a lot of time, but it was well worth the effort.I'm now working toward changing all of the sidebar items into widgets to enable the administrator to re-order and enable/disable individual sections without having to come back to the development division for code changes.

You can always change your Blogger theme, though it involves working with proprietary tags in the HTML/CSS. If you do have to customize the look of your blog, you ought to switch to WordPress. I'd be surprised if Blogger's themes aren't standards compliant. BTW, you should never put "IE" and "standards" in the same sentence - IE seems to disregard so many of the WWW Consortium standards that I simply lost count. You might want to look at IE 8 if you insist on using IE but want to see some standards compliance - it's closer to the standards, but not quite there yet.

If you don't want Safari to go over all of your data, you might want to reduce your cache size. A smaller cache is better suited for older hardware - less disk space usage, and less CPU usage in searches. You can't complain about getting a feature you never had unless you actually have to use it - that's when you begin to appreciate it.

The web browser automatically determines from the markup and file extension that the media type is supposed to be opened with the QuickTime plugin - you must be trying to play a video, most probably an MOV QuickTime media file. If your browser is trying to open an SWF Flash media file, I'd say your browser has got issues that you need to sort out.

CSS works quite well with Firefox. I usually have a hard time getting the damned thing to work in Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 does help a bit, but it isn't quite there yet. Unfortunately, since Internet Explorer is the most popular browser out there, I have to work out some sort of hacks to get my page to display correctly :-(

Firefox put together the functionality that most users use. I never click the Home icon on any of my browsers, so does it even matter? The home button is a vestigial part of a web browser from the time when we didn't have so many websites. Now, I'd just use a bookmark toolbar to keep my most frequently used URLs and that too isn't really working out so I'd rather use a dropdown. Using the regular bookmarks isn't really an option for most users because it tends to fill up till the point that you can never find what you need. The address bar search is really an improvement. Would you really want to open your web browsing history as a sidebar and browse all the way till you find what you want? Let's say you were browsing something at home and take your computer to work - if you know what you were reading, you can simply type in the title of the article and the dropdown shows you the page titles from the history. Don't complain about Firefox for being innovative and doing what the others out there haven't done yet. Instead, embrace technology and keep up with the changes.

There's no such thing as over-doing a compliment if you really mean it. Try to use a couple of adjectives together like "That's the nicest most prettiest puppy dog I ever saw". If you can't think of anything other than nice, say something like "It's so totally cool". Seriously, you can't go wrong when you say something is "cool".

Do you get a blue screen before the reboot? If you do, then it might be a malfunctioning device or driver. Check if the issue occurs when you do not have any of the peripheral devices connected. Also make sure you hard drive connections aren't loose or damaged. BTW, do any of the device drivers you've installed give you a dialog box with a "Continue Anyway" button? It could indicate a driver that wasn't specifically written for Windows XP.

Hi! The WordPress source code is being ported across to other platforms. There's a project to turn WordPress into ASP.NET/C# (WordPress.NET), but it isn't production-ready yet. There's one to port WordPress to Java too! (nWordPress) Perhaps you can contribute to the Java port? nWordPress uses the Spring framework for MVC. Regards, Nitin

Hi! I hopped onto the WordPress bandwagon with version 2.6 two weeks ago. I wanted to upgrade to the latest version i.e. 2.7.1, and barring some changes to my CSS (my CSS was pretty messed up in the first place), the upgrade was pretty smooth. All you need to do to perform the upgrade is copy the themes and plugins that you've installed across to the new version - the new version automatically upgrades the database structure and performs data migration. A new feature in WordPress version 2.7 is automatic upgrades. Perhaps I'll get to try it out when version 2.7.2 is released. I tried upgrading the G.D.Rating via automatic upgrade, but it didn't work out :-( I guess the plugin has to support upgrading too. Regards, Nitin Reddy

If you've got a network card, you can install Linux on it and use it as a cheap web server by running Apache. I've got an old Thinkpad laptop with pretty much the same specs but as I've got an USB network interface, I happened to be stuck with Windows :-(Somebody out there ought to do something for better USB networking support on Linux - there's a lot of old laptops out there that can do stuff if they could be hooked up to a network and run Linux.

Blu-ray (notice the missing 'e') is a technology developed by Sony to increase the capacity of optical storage media (CDs/DVDs). You can store 25GB (single layer) to 50GB (double layer) per disc, which is a lot compared to DVDs that can store 4.7GB (single layer) to 8.5GB (double layer). Blu-ray wasn't very popular initally due to the 'format war' with HD-DVD, the main proponent of which was Toshiba. The format war kept consumers from buying players that supported Blu-ray or HD-DVD due to the concern that choosing the wrong format would leave them with a player for which discs are no longer manufactured. The format war ended in the favor of Blu-ray and the now you'll find Blu-ray drives in most high-end computers. As was the case with DVD, it'll take a while before consumers finally make the switch. When software manufacturers sell their software as a choice between 5 DVDs or 1 Blu-ray disc, that's when you know you've seen the demise of the DVD.

Hi! I've got an old Presario laptop, powered by Intel's Pentium 4, with a couple of dead keys on the keyboard. It's the space bar and the 'B' key. It's also got a bad power connector so once it does power up, I shouldn't move it or turn it off :-( Although I've got my shiny new work laptop and my slightly old personal laptop, I still use it for running the Apache web server and for an occasional game or two. I play Smokin' Guns, a free open-source CounterStrike alternative for players frustrated with all of the CS bugs, so I had to change the 'Buy' key to 'N' and the 'Jump' key to 'V'. I can't write anything without the space bar, so unless I go any buy an external keyboard, all I can do with it is use Remote Desktop... I use my old Thinkpad 600E, powered by Intel's Pentium II, as a remote desktop client. Think I have too many old laptops lying around? I've also got an AST notebook, powered by Intel's 80386SX. It's got a worn out LCD - there are colored lines all over the screen, but if you can hook it up to a VGA display, you can play Xenobots and run Windows 3.1 on it! :-)

Grand Theft Auto is a lot of fun compared to Taxi, if all that you do is pick people up and drop them off. I wish GTA would have more missings that have the car jump off the road - driving out windows, off rooftops and over ramps is lots of fun, esp when you have the cops on your tail.

I can't tell you anything about the wheel/brake because I never really looked up whether the game supports it or not. However, the driving games that I find fun are Grand Theft Auto (car damage, stealing cars) and Need For Speed (any of the MW/HP-style). BTW, you ought to try the iPhone games too - using the accelerometer to steer is difficult at first, but then it feels like a real steering wheel!

I got my co-workers to play CS1.6 again, and initially I was really good, but then they became really good at it. I usually get killed in one shot by any gun the others use, but it takes me about 3 hits to kill them, so I'm guessing there must be some sort of handicap added to my player. I don't usually host the server so I can't tell for sure.On a sidenote, I'd like to say I really like playing Smokin Guns, an open-source alternative to Counter Strike because you don't have the issue of guns spraying (shoot at point blank range but dont cause any damage at all). Smokin Guns puts you on a more level playing field and it's less frustrating, although the graphics aren't as good as Counter Strike.

Is there any benefit to silencing a gun? I prefer the M4 too - it lets you shoot accurately even while moving. I like the Night Hawk pistol too - it's my secondary weapon while I'm carrying a sniper rifle. It's a good idea to have a member of a Counter-Terrorist team carry a shield so you can confront the Terrorists as a team, esp. the tunnel in DE-Dust.

I agree with all but the first. You shouldn't switch off the engine because most cars (okay, so I'm not including the Maruti Suzuki 800 here) have power steering and power brakes. I would like to add that the parking brake, also known as the emergency brake, can be used. If you see a puddle of water, going through it will slow you down a bit due to the water resistance. Make sure you have your seatbelt on because if you do have a collision, the seatbelt will keep you from hitting the dashboard or the windshield.