Category: Technical

TSVNCache.exe

I heard some disturbing hard drive noise from the server over the last week. I began to suspect imminent failure, but the click of doom was too intermittent and unusual sounding to indicate a hard drive failure. Just this week I began experiencing issues browsing the server using RDP. A defrag didn’t help speed things up…Windows Explorer would hourglass and take a very long while to open folders and navigate through directories. A big concern.

I checked task manager and discovered TSVNCache.exe sitting in the top 10 list…so I Googled up the process and discovered it was quite a cpu/memory hog. I ended the process right away and Windows Explorer was back to its zippy self.

I still have to perform some diagnostics on the server this weekend after a lightning strike blew the UPS up. My workstation setup is currently running on surge protectors.

Scraped!

Logging into my dashboard this morning I discovered that Technorati had pinged my site and some unscrupulous scraper had since then picked up and absorbed my recent blog posts. Blog scraping is a serious problem, opening my site and content up to spamming and copyright issues. I obviously don’t want persons or businesses profiting off my personal thoughts and labor. I’ve started nailing down trackbacks and pingbacks in the WordPress database by following the instructions at the following site. It’s useful to note that I don’t have phpMyAdmin; I simply used the mySQL console window to enter the update statements.

Open only to registered users:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status="registered_only";

To close all pingbacks and trackbacks:

UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status="closed";