Nu.nl grosiert van nature in manbijthond niuews, maar gedurende de Komkommer tijd is het wel heel erg!

Drie miljoen bezoekers voor website Gordon
AMSTERDAM - De website van Gordon is in de afgelopen twee jaar door ruim drie miljoen mensen bezocht. De zanger is zo blij met de animo, dat hij belooft nog meer voor de site te gaan doen. Wat precies is nog onduidelijk.

Ba! Een mislukte zanger met een site released een non news persbericht en Nu.nl neemt het over. Bahhh. 3 Miljoen bezoekers voon een BN-er in 2 jaar. Dat is niets. Om het duidelijk te maken, zie deze grafiek, rood is nu.nl, blauw indien zichtbaar Gordon.
Willy krijgt per dag zo'n 2000 bezoekers, mijn feed word aanzienlijk vaker opgehaald (en gelezen?). 2000 bezoekers per dag * 360 dagen * 2 jaar. Bijna anderhalf miljoen bezoeker de afgelopen 2 jaar. Dus, Nu.nl vrij voor publiekatie. Meer non news heet van de pers:

Anderhalf miljoen bezoekers voor website WILLY DOBBE:
SANTPOORT-NOORD - De website van Willy Dobbe is in de afgelopen twee jaar door bijna anderhalf miljoen mensen bezocht. De blogger is zo blij met de animo, dat hij belooft nog meer voor de site te gaan doen. Wat precies is nog onduidelijk.

Now publish that!

On the planet page of Drupal (http://drupal.org/planet" ( no A record with rewrite from planet.drupal.org sadly) you can read the syndicated news from a couple of dozen Drupal users and developers who tagged their feed as Drupal related. For example, the page of 2bits feed is syndicated as well as the feed of my site (including this posting which you might read at Drupal.org/planet :-) ).

There is now a spotlight banner on the upper left on the homepage of drupal.org). I like it a bit, there is a subtle reference to the Druplicon over the planet. However I dont like the color palet that doesnt fit Drupal's colors. You can see how it stands out on the page with logos for special events where I added it. Still, I like this planet.

navel"onderzoek" van de VK Peiling Hoe moeilijk maken dagbladcolumnisten het zichzelf eigenlijk?

Wat denken collega-columnisten van het produceren van een (bijna) dagelijks stukje in de krant?

Get a blog! Willy, every day fresh nonsense since 2002.

So since a couple of days I am using Gmail for my boerland.com domain. I like it. How much? Well, think gmail... Thats it. Plus you can create 25 accounts within your domain for free (no catchall (yet?)) and you can have distributed rights on who can maintain the users. Nicely done. With extreem cool anti spam feautres like gmail has.

Speaking of, since I was changing my DNS entry, I though I might as well add more anti spam features zo my zone using spf. I used this msft tool thingy to make up the TXT field. And then change it a lot because it is a stupid tool (you can make longer entries than the TXT field can hold :-( )

So I created this entry

And yes, that does validate.

But before I know the syntax of the Gmail hosts, I needed to lookup the configs from the Google site.

Google says one should add "include:aspmx.googlemail.com". So I checked aspmx.googlemail.com and got:

I re-read that line. And re-read it. That cant be true! Only loooooosers sysadmins of old NT boxes make such a stupid mistake!

But yes, that does include Google it seems.

That might look like a smart way of using A record, redirecting and TXT field, but do checkout the underscore in the hostname! An underscore in a hostname!

Google are you barking mad?

Only letters, digits, and dash characters are legal in hostnames. Special characters other than the dash (and the dot between components) are not allowed in the hostname designation although cohesion may cause them to appear. Underscore characters are commonly used by Windows systems but according to RFC-952 they are not allowed. The use of the underscore has caused many subtle problems in systems that connect to the wider world...

(wikipedia, see also rfc 952)

Since the hardware under this webserver is rather old (from basl) the load is rather high if you run modern programs and a popular website like mine :-)

So I should read Optimizing MySQL: Hardware and the Mysqld Variables, optimizing MySQL: Hardware and the Mysqld Variables, Even if dont want to recmompile MySQL, lots of hints and pointers for your configuration.