Microsoft has just released the latest version of its popular web browser. Those who choose to download Internet Explorer 8 will enjoy several new measures that were designed to protect your privacy while you browse the web. These measures just might have a negative impact on web advertisers which rely on collecting data from web [...]

A developer named Christopher Soghoian at Harvard University created an add-on for web browsers that will prevent advertisers from being able to monitor a user’s web surfing activities. This includes the various searches that a browser on the web might conduct and even the sites that they might visit. For those who might be worried [...]

When the developers of dfGallery said they are committed to make the best looking free flash galleries, they weren’t joking. dfGallery is designed to support custom themes with multiple skins for each theme giving users great flexibility in term of UI. The first version of dfGallery was downloaded over 200,000 times and the newly released [...]

If you have not heard of miniBB, it’s a very lightweight forum web application – we use it on SlashGear discussion forums. Prior to WordPress 2.5, miniBB integration to WordPress was fairly straightforward and easy. WordPress 2.5 introduces new password hashes, phpass and it breaks many 3rd party application integration, including miniBB. While you can [...]

I’m a guy who will throw in more hardware to keep up with server load and traffic demand, but from time to time, being able to squeeze every little bit of performance worth the hassle of mingling into applications and server configuration. WordPress is quite MySQL resources intensive when you are not using file-based cache [...]

A Linux distribution is a member of the Linux family of the Unix-like computer operating systems by different companies such as RedHat, Novell – Suse, and Ubuntu. This system is merely created for Linux kernel and various other systems like the X window system. Moreover, Linux distribution comes in wide variety of forms simply because [...]

I don’t usually preach on how great a piece of product is on my personal blog, but this one is special. SlashGear is proudly running WordPress and backed by Dual Xeon 3.0 and 4GB ram with 74GB Raid SCSI machine. We were running Apache 2.0 with MySQL 4.1 on it and when we got digg [...]

One of my server went into hiatus and we even restored it from scratch by installing RHEL 4 all over again and reconfigure, but for some reason Apache would crashed every 30 seconds. Error log shows nothing unusual and i cant figure out why as memory and etc seems to be on normal usage. So [...]