Microsoft opened up a sandbox of their new search engine. Perhaps the recent rumors that they will be debuting the new MSN search this summer are true.
MSN Search
I find it to be pretty slow but I would guess the beta version is only running on a fraction of a cylinder. The SERP’s look pretty good!
I discovered today that the Yahoo is automatically dumping GMail invites into the ‘Bulk Folder’ as if they were SPAM. My girlfriend complained that she never received my invite to try GMail so I tested the idea this afternoon.
Attempt 1:
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From: [my gmail account]
Subject: gmail
Body: “test”
The email landed in my inbox.
Attempt 2:
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From: [my gmail account]
Subject: gmail
Body: [text from my gmail invite to my girlfriend]
The email landed in my Bulk Folder.
Smells fishy.
want to change your index filename for your site but don’t have access to apache httpd.conf?
you can override the default index file by adding the following lines to your .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex my-php-index.php
Options -Indexes
One of my servers is receiving a large number of full text queries so I’ve been thinking of ways to minimize the load. The current CPU load is quite low but for future scalability it makes sense to whip up a caching system. Fortunately I read the mySql manual before inventing my own wheel:
When in use, the query cache stores the text of a SELECT query together with the corresponding result that was sent to the client. If the identical query is received later, the server retrieves the results from the query cache rather than parsing and executing the query again.
C’est facile!
query_cache_size = 1000000
query_cache_type = 1
From: MySQL Query Cache
i was running out of disk space and looking for a quicker solution than reinstalling my OS. all my data and program files existed on a second drive called ‘D:’. this is the drive i wanted to upgrade. here is how i did it:
i bought a 160GB Seagate
formatted it NTFS and assigned it to drive H:
copied everything from D: to H: (xcopy /c/h/e/k/r d: h:)
changed old D: to U: and new drive H: to D: with PartitionMagic 8.0
reboot!