WASG: Lafontaine wants to be number one in NRW - oh Menno, does the stun grenade have to be placed in NRW? I wouldn't have anything against the WASG, but sorry, Lafontaine is simply unacceptable. Too many have forgotten his actions against the unions in the 80s, too many his hollow populism. He doesn't offer solutions for NRW or the federal government - only empty slogans.
I have a strange problem: for some time now, all applications appear two or three times in the "Open with" menu. Is there any way to stop the computer from doing this nonsense? I suspect this is due to the backups - there are the same applications again on external drives, but somehow they should disappear, on my normal drive there is definitely only one Photoshop ...
... there's no need to discuss this any further. After all, 40 million credit card details were stolen - and this was from a brokerage company's computer that acts as an intermediary between retailers and credit card companies. Quite an achievement - just like that, 40 million people are potentially exposed to incorrect debits. Calling something like this a security vulnerability is quite an audacity ...
Well, the Metaeule is good for more than just aggregating RSS feeds - that would be boring, anyone can do that. Okay, the links are very interesting, but still - just putting together a Planet-like aggregator would be boring.
Therefore, I have now redesigned the search and archive views a bit. From now on, new posts on the homepage will only be posted as excerpts. In the archive and search results, the posts will only appear as titles in the results list - the search is sorted by relevance (as well as MySQL can manage). The special feature: each article or title has a link in the archive. With this link, you can access the secured article page. So even if the original host is not available, the content of the post is retrievable (though only the content that was also provided to me via the RSS feed - if the blog only has excerpts in the RSS feed, only excerpts will end up in the database). Additionally, at the bottom of the archive page, there is a list of posts on the posts themselves that might be relevant to this post - of course only within the limits of what MySQL can manage.
Overall, the Metaeule is no longer just a simple aggregator, but also an archive, a topic-specific search engine, and a cross-reference list. Let's see how useful it turns out to be in real use. Once everything is running smoothly, I will write about which plugins and changes I used for this. Promised.
If you want to use the very useful caching plugin wp-cache-2, you need to be careful: it is not compatible with the PHPAccelerator. Unfortunately, you cannot use both together, only one of the two works. Quite annoying, because they address different elements - the plugin caches the output, the accelerator caches the precompiled PHP. Therefore, the accelerator would also help the cache system, since the cache system is written in PHP ...
Anyway, I have activated the plugin on the WordPress blogs I manage. Especially the Metaeule could benefit from this in the long run. The caching is currently set to 20 minutes, so that changes in the database do not hang around for too long before everyone can see them. Let's see what oddities occur during operation.
One thing I expected not to work properly anymore is the Plugin Popularity Contest - this counts how often a post has been called up. This happens much less frequently due to the caching and therefore the numbers are no longer meaningful. Ratings based on comments and trackbacks are of course still possible, but the page views are useless. A pity actually, but in return I get much lower server load and much higher delivery rates: with activated wp-cache I have a load of just under 4 with 20 competing massive accesses and shovel just under 50 requests per second. Without wp-cache I have a load of over 9 and only just manage 5 requests per second.
So with wp-cache-2 only half the load and ten times the performance. For that I gladly sacrifice the Popularity Contest.
A second plugin that I noticed: Search Hilight (standard plugin from WordPress) doesn't work. Logically - it colors search terms that are determined from the referrer of a search engine. And referrers do not go into the cache signature. A pity, it was a visually nice gimmick. But on the other hand not really that important.
