Vali Petcu blog

I hate it when bloggers don’t understand simple concepts, like who’s content is it and a fast blog is is better. So, here are some pointers:   1. Fix your blog tech issues This scares a lot of people, but being scared of it is not going to fix anything. Really. Check speed, usability, photo […]

Due to mutiple scans on the xmlrpc protocol, i chose to protect xmlrpc.php file with .htaccess. <Files xmlrpc.php> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 188.24 Allow from 188.27 </Files> The problem is that, if I want to update Jetpack, it shows the following message: Your website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack: […]

Awww, Reddit is in flames cause somebody over there got fired. The whole shabang is here. If you remember 2010, same thing happened to Digg. It was a spark of no apparent importance (the administration censored some dumb code that was supposedly permit CD ripping, users revolted, trashed the site and moved on to Reddit), […]

There’s a lot of chatter on Lifehacker and Gizmodo about how Chrome sucks and how it’s bloated and slow and Firefox is so much better because nobody remembers how slow Firefox used to be. The thing is, every browser is slow when u are using it for a long time. And since we do a […]

Former Managing Director of Boom advertising company (part of NCH Group) is the new Manager of Madhouse mobile advertising agency. So nice. Boom went bankrupt in 2009, following a disastrous management by Petriceanu and the sales team (Magda Zander and Gabriel Boacă, their favorite saying was “whatever money somebody elses gives you, we can go […]

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

Matt Rosof explains why Google does a lot of stuffing of their own products in their search Regardless of whether Google faces new charges, the thing to keep in mind is that Google is a for-profit company. Its products have to be good, otherwise nobody will use them. But they also serve the larger business […]

I am reading “The Life of the Automobile”, because the last time I read something like that I was 16 and I feel I do not know enough about this topic. So I order the book and start reading. I read up to the point when Adolf Hitler orders Ferdinand Porsche to build the Beetle […]

XenForo is a forum software created by former VBulletin developers. If you have used Vbulletin 3.x and then upgraded to 4.x you know why there are a fair share of 3.x forums out there. XenForo is simple and better and is not trying to be more than a forum, as Vb does. Recently I’ve moved […]

There are so much gas consumption topics on the Forester forum I think people did not do enough research before buying one. To whomever may want to buy a new Subaru Forester or other gas SUV, here are some points: the two liter engine is great if you drive like a granny. slow on the […]