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Wal-Mart Woman – Hilarious Wal-Mart Song

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I just saw this exact music video on the local public access channel. It’s a woman named Sue Fabisch singing “Wal-Mart Woman” off of her album “Music 4 Mommies: Volume 1 – Songs to make you laugh!” and it indeed did make me laugh. It’s funny yet scary. In the song and video, she sings the praises of Wal-mart.

[tags]geek, funny, hilarious, musci, video, music video, wal-mart, walmart, parody, mp3[/tags]

WordPress blogging tip – how to survive a LOT of traffic (from BoingBoing or elsewhere)

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I could have also called this “The first WordPress plugin you should install when starting a new WordPress blog”.

So, today, I posted a new feature article on Candy Addict called Top 10 Grossest Candies. I hoped it would get some traffic and submitted it to a bunch of popular sites. I got linked from BoingBoing and Fark.com which sent a ton of traffic and this caused my CPU usage on my shared server to go over the limits. So, my possibly-new-readers’ first impression of the site is an error page.

So, I scramble to figure out if I can get the CPU usage down, I call my host, but nothing I do drops it and I still get the error message (it comes and goes). So, my buddy Tom says I need a way to cache the pages and AHA! I search for a WordPress plugin that does caching and I found one. I didn’t know if it would work or not, but I figured it couldn’t hurt since my site was hosed anyway.

Almost as soon as I get it installed, my site is fine. Snappy, responsive, and no CPU quota error messages. Amazing. So, I owe the author of that plugin a few beers, but he is Hispanic and the site is almost all in Spanish (except the plugin page) and I can’t find any contact info. If nothing else, I just want to say thanks!

So, the moral of the story:
INSTALL WP-CACHE IN YOUR WORDPRESS BLOG NOW!
Go do it now – I’ll wait. Install it whether or not you expect to ever get a bunch of traffic. You never know when something you write will spread across the internet like wildfire and you will need/want some caching.

[tags]geek, wp, wordpress, tip, trick, tips, tricks, blog, blogs, blogtips, blogging, cache, caching, boingboing, traffic[/tags]

Teddy Graham said so!

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Teddy Graham says so

Just saw the above image on a website as a testimonial. Yeah. I believe everything from a guy named “Teddy Graham”. Just struck me as funny. At least he’s not from Bearville.

[tags]geek, teddy, teddy bear, teddy graham, funny, humor, comedy[/tags]

Integrated WinSCP and PuTTY for SFTP and SSH

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I had been using SSHTerm (now called UniTTY, see below) for a long time for my SSH and SFTP needs. The main reason was because it allows you to easily spawn an SFTP process form your current SSH session (and it puts it in a tab). This is SOOOOO handy – how many times do I SSH into my linux box then realize I need to transfer a file? Many times. SSHTerm lets me do both SSH and SFTP with one login.

The bad part: SSHTerm is in Java and is a memory HOG. I also don’t like the UI a whole lot. The buttons are not intuitive at all – even after using it for 2(?) years I still can’t remember what those icons do.

So I was playing with WinSCP the other day – I use it every now and then because I like the UI (in Norton mode) and it’s a native Windows app so it’s not a memory hog. Well, lo and behold, WinSCP has sort of an integration with PuTTY (a great, free, SSH client). Hit Ctrl-P while connected and it pops up a PuTTY terminal. You still have to enter your password but it’s quick. For commands that don’t require user interaction you can even use their built-in terminal by hitting Ctrl-T.

WinSCP just became my #1 SFTP client.

Oh yeah – all the programs I mentioned – SSHTerm, WinSCP, and PuTTY are freeware.

Hmmmmmm…..while getting the link for SSHTerm it looks like they have renamed it to UniTTY (cool name) and added/changed some features. I’ll update this once I’ve taken a look.

And yes I have tried FileZilla and it sucks (IMHO).

UPDATE: UniTTY is pretty nice. Fast startup times, nice GUI. Still takes up 40MB of RAM but it’s speedy. Still has crappy icons. I wish it had dual panes (local and remote).

[tags]geek, software, freeware, ssh, sftp, windows, tips, tricks[/tags]