DISQUS

I'm running this on this blog and it seems to work. Btw did you get the "thanks for commenting" message from me when you first commented here?

You are right about one thing. IT is possible that this plugin will still make your blog slower. This is because the function that sends the email messages is called on each page load. It should not work like this. It should only try to send the email messages when someone is adding a new comment or when a comment is set as approved.

I will make the modifications required and will post them in a few days.

Help me if you want me to help you :). If you just tell me you can't get it to work that's not helping anyone. you might think giving some details...maybe, did you enabled the plugin after you activated it? can you look into the database to see if it created the wp_cr_emailed table? Does emailing from php ( and wordpress ) even work on your hosting account ? any other information you think it may be relevant...

I'm running only Linux, and occasionally other Unix like OS, so it's not much of use to me but the idea is interesting indeed.

that's not how it's supposed to work. The first time you install /activate it should get all unique email addresses from your comments and insert them into a table named wp_cr_emailed . This will ensure those that commented before this plugin was activated will not receive any message.

Did you try the modified plugin? How did it do ?

I don't think concentrating would help in any way. What could they do? start a service like akismet ? Google will make webmasters angry but I don't think they will switch to yahoo ads or at least not because of this policy.

No, that's not good, it's almost the same thing with what they are doing now.

I agree about the fact that people should report irrelevant links. It would be a lot easier to determine irrelevant links for a bot, and the results would be fair. Actually this could be done even without the need for people to report.
How hard it would be to determine if link anchor and the content of the page where the link is or even the content of more pages on the site, is similar to the page or site where the link is pointing? Maybe this would be too costly for google....

that's crazy. there's no way to evaluate in a fair way. This will only make webmasters hide the paid links better. Right now they are all in once place. We should expect to see paid links hidden in text. Actually we'll just guess, because they will not be disclosed.

AFAIK w3c specs say you can't start ca class name with a number so I guess IE is selective about what part of a standard it implements. I would not start a class name with a number anyway... it just doesn't seem natural.

that does not seem to work on Unix/Linux

Thank you! :)

I'm on xfce 4.1 now. I like it so far. I'm decided to keep it for at least one week. You can't really know if it's good for you if you just keep it a few minutes. It has less features then Gnome or KDE but If I think about it I really don't use most of those features or I use them very little. The looks are not bad either. My computer has 1Gb or ram but with gnome, firefox and thunderbird always opened that memory was full all the time, now I have about 100 Mb free all the time.

I'm seriously thinking to go for xfce

not remembering your resolution is not really a superficial reason, I guess it can be annoying but I bet you could have fixed that easily.

yeah but it's harder to use it that way., too many clicks just to pick a color

yes there is and it's set up by default on most blogging platforms

grabc works well for linux but it don't not have a gui . A simple gtk wrapper should not be hard to add.

I know, I already mentioned the firefox extension, do you know of any other? Are you using any ? maybe one that works on *nix ?

It's more like an experiment to see if viewers comment just for the links.
The idea is to encourage them to comment knowing that they get something in return. I was hoping to get some quality comments, not just "I just commented. thanks for the link!" kind of comments :)

yes, that shows only on the main page or the archive pages

I do use the top commentators plugin. You can see it in the left sidebar.
Thank you for your comment. :)

Yes askimet is doing a pretty good job. So far not one spam comment escaped

Of course it will not work. How would it be able to redirect packets to squid if the packets don't even get to it?
You can set this as the gateway and still use your hardware router, but you have to add another rule to POSTROUTING.

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXT_IF -s $LOCAL_NET -d ! $LOCAL_NET -j SNAT --to $EXT_IP
$EXT_IF is your external interface ( the interface linked to the hardware router in your case )
$LOCAL_NET is 192.168.0.0/24 in your case
$EXT_IP is the ip assigned to your external interface ( 192.168.0.250 ? )

you can use just one interface if you want and it can act as both an external and internal interface but you have to set it up to have two different ips ( in two different classes ) one for connecting to the hardware router and the other for your local network.
You also have to set your workstations on your lan to have an ip in the same class as the one you set on your server for the local interface, and make the workstations use the server's ip as the gateway not the hardware router.

This machine has to act as the gateway for your local network. Do you have it configured this way? do you have a rule in the POSTROUTING chain for doing SNAT or something like that ? does that work ?