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vBulletin Cron Based Email Sending – vB mail queue back log

vBulletin cron based email sending is a new feature in vBulletin 4.2 and is enabled by default and configured for only 10 batch emails sends until that queue is cleared. There is an email delay setting which allows you to set the delay between each email sent within a batch to either none, 1, 2 or...

eva2000 interview at theadminzone.com

TheAdminZone.com recently interviewed me and you can read the full interview to understand who I am, what drives my constant quest for server optimisation performance and the significance of my username here.

vBulletin 4.2 Released

vBulletin 4.2 has been released. vBulletin 4.2 contains only feature changes and issue fixes related to those feature changes. The release contains: Activity Stream – VBIV-13946 Navigation Manager – VBIV-8393 & VBIV-3058 Members who have Visited Today – VBIV-14582 Cron-based Batch Email Sending – VBIV-14583 UserCP Reputation Display – VBIV-14584 Reputation Notification – VBIV-14585 User Profile Reputation Display – VBIV-14586 Who has Read a Thread...

MariaDB 5.5 RPM builds ?

MariaDB 5.5.23 has been announced as stable release since last month but there isn’t an official MariaDB 5.5 RPM available for download yet. Seems there’s problems that need to be ironed out with the official RPM builds for MariaDB 5.5.23. Update: seems official MariaDB 5.5 RPMs might be coming soon ! I’ve been attempting to...

vBulletin 4.1.12 PL1 released with security fix patches for vB 4.1.2 to 4.1.12

vBulletin 4.1.12 was released recently only to be followed up with vBulletin 4.1.12 PL1 security fix patch release. A separate patch release was also issued for vBulletin versions 4.1.2 to 4.1.11. There’s also a security patch fix released for vBulletin 3.x MAPI Plugin 1.4.3. vBulletin 4.1.12 release vBulletin 4.1.12 PL1 release vBulletin 4.1.2 to 4.1.11 patch...

WordPress 3.3.2 & 3.4 beta 3 released

WordPress has announced the released of their 3.3.2 stable and 3.4 beta 3 versions. Full details here. WordPress 3.3.2 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading...

Twitter releasing own MySQL internal development branch on GitHub

Jeremy Cole announced that Twitter has published it’s own MySQL internal development branch to GitHub. MySQL at Twitter MySQL is the persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data: the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves. Due to our scale, we push MySQL a lot further than most companies. Of course, MySQL is...

Google Drive coming soon – free 5GB storage

Google Drive is coming soon it seems. Announced on Google Blog, you’ll have 5GB free online storage space to upload, share and collaborate videos, photos, files and documents with others. Videos and photos will be instantly available to your Google+ accounts if linked apparently. Eventually, you’ll be able to sync PC, Mac, Linux and both...