Having Strange Errors Utilizing Gzip in WordPress 2.9 and 2.9.1?
Fortunately your not alone. A recent bug fix was just released which addresses an error which is received while updating the WordPress core, as well as WordPress plugins. This error typically effects http.php, located at wp-includes/http.php, and looks similar to the code listed below.
We Hate Spam, So Here’s A Fresh List of Spam Bots For Your Blocking Pleasure...
We maintain a variety of websites, blogs, content portals, mail servers, and other online resources. We’re forced to deal with a daily task of Spam removal and prevention. Be it spam-bots, human spammers, comment spammers, and on and on. The majority of the time its no more than a nuisance, and a simple administrative task. The number one goal of any administrator is to prevent these spammers from ever accomplishing their intended goal of comment hijacking or gaining some control over website content. But these days spammers are getting quite sneaky, in fact we’d even go as far as saying that some of them are quite good at what they do.
But since they bug us, we’re going to help you in the fight against them and their evil deeds. Below you’ll find a list of IP addresses we’ve personally compiled. All the addresses below have recently spammed our servers, and have since been banned.
The first list is simply a list of IP addresses that you can easily load into you favorite anti-spam plugin. The second list is from a .htaccess file we provided to a client. Have fun, and happy computing.
Recently active spambot IP addresses...
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8.17.84.65 58.137.132.100 63.171.182.6 63.227.242.5 63.253.158.220 67.61.143.217 67.163.0.220 67.181.166.121 78.26.187.114 78.152.106.43 80.38.103.231 83.69.209.194 83.103.113.124 85.112.166.65 88.46.239.43 93.62.4.207 93.81.251.193 110.138.31.73 115.119.35.194 119.225.109.37 120.124.176.217 130.105.36.54 131.107.33.62 144.140.46.10 158.59.200.109 159.214.87.245 161.159.4.33 161.254.6.55 170.207.128.4 174.142.166.205 180.130.166.89 188.73.138.24 189.45.59.76 189.76.222.229 190.2.14.129 194.8.74.220 194.8.75.40 - 194.8.75.163 194.183.86.25 196.211.9.210 200.181.124.57 201.67.137.247 202.108.50.75 202.229.143.64 203.63.26.200 206.123.106.141 208.88.124.83 208.91.245.90 212.113.74.186 212.131.202.194 213.230.22.142 213.130.121.51 217.6.171.194 217.72.242.60 217.196.65.115 218.126.216.117 220.116.127.192
This list can be dropped right into your .htaccess file...
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order allow,deny deny from 8.17.84.65 deny from 58.137.132.100 deny from 63.171.182.6 deny from 63.227.242.5 deny from 63.253.158.220 deny from 67.61.143.217 deny from 67.163.0.220 deny from 67.181.166.121 deny from 78.26.187.114 deny from 78.152.106.43 deny from 80.38.103.231 deny from 83.69.209.194 deny from 83.103.113.124 deny from 85.112.166.65 deny from 88.46.239.43 deny from 93.62.4.207 deny from 93.81.251.193 deny from 110.138.31.73 deny from 115.119.35.194 deny from 119.225.109.37 deny from 120.124.176.217 deny from 130.105.36.54 deny from 131.107.33.62 deny from 144.140.46.10 deny from 158.59.200.109 deny from 159.214.87.245 deny from 161.159.4.33 deny from 161.254.6.55 deny from 170.207.128.4 deny from 174.142.166.205 deny from 180.130.166.89 deny from 188.73.138.24 deny from 189.45.59.76 deny from 189.76.222.229 deny from 190.2.14.129 deny from 194.8.74.220 deny from 194.8.75.40 - 194.8.75.163 deny from 194.183.86.25 deny from 196.211.9.210 deny from 200.181.124.57 deny from 201.67.137.247 deny from 202.108.50.75 deny from 202.229.143.64 deny from 203.63.26.200 deny from 206.123.106.141 deny from 208.88.124.83 deny from 208.91.245.90 deny from 212.113.74.186 deny from 212.131.202.194 deny from 213.230.22.142 deny from 213.130.121.51 deny from 217.6.171.194 deny from 217.72.242.60 deny from 217.196.65.115 deny from 218.126.216.117 deny from 220.116.127.192 allow from all
Force Nextgen Gallery To Crop Thumbnails From The Top Of The Image... **Updated**

In our original post, we simply deleted a line to change the starting position of NextGEN’s thumbnail crop. With the most recent version of NextGEN Gallery,1.4.3 as of this postings date, this was generating errors. So we dug around in the code a bit, and here’s our fix.
Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog...
The first half of this article will be taken directly from our previous post, as the need for a single default php.ini is necessary to configure gzip. If reading our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already configured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htaccess portion of the post. Otherwise, were off...
The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento
We wrote this article in response to postings offering advice to users of Magento, an open source ecommerce system. The advice is being given with good intentions, and the intent is only to assist their fellow Magento users. But the advice being give may actually have the potential cause harm to the users site, or at the least a good deal of down time. The advice being offered is to help speed up Magento by enabling a server side caching system called gzip. What people don’t realize is that their being told to enable two separate caching systems. These two systems tend not to play well together, and could cause harm to your install. While most people see positive results, there are a rare few seeing server side errors, database errors, and are stumped as to why.
How Do I Specify a Class For IMG Inserted With Visual Editor...

The following is in response to a question on WordPress.org. We’ve become extremely proficient with wordpress in the past few years, and we’re always coming up with innovative ways of using this amazing product. We try to post most all our fixes, hacks, and tricks, in the hopes that it will prove useful to someone. Hopefully this will be no different.
WordPress, Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted
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During a routine update to a WordPress site we received the following error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/website/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1342 Scary stuff, but no need to panic. Chances are your WordPress install is quite well used with lots pages, posts, and plugins. First off, don’t start disabling plugins and hacking code. Follow these simple steps and you’ll be updated in no time.
My WordPress Blog is Sending Mail With My Webhosts Address
Here’s our solution. Be sure your working with the most up to date file. Local copies can become outdated with online updates. Edit the following file: wordpress-root-directory/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php
On line 75 (valid on WordPress 2.7.1 - 2.8.7) and edit, “root@localhost.com” to the address you’de like to appear in administrative emails, ie. user@yourdomain.com. You’ll also want to change your FromName, on line 81, and your email address on line 88. Simply fill the empty quotes.
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/** * Sets the From email address for the message. * @var string */ var $From = 'root@localhost'; /** * Sets the From name of the message. * @var string */ var $FromName = 'Root User'; /** * Sets the Sender email (Return-Path) of the message. If not empty, * will be sent via -f to sendmail or as 'MAIL FROM' in smtp mode. * @var string */ var $Sender = '';
And that’s it. Your sever will now send administrative Emails from your chosen name, and address. Let us know if this was helpful.
How I Made Our Background Image....
The image you see in the background is actually 8 images all pieced together to make my virtual desktop. I was having an inspirational day and decided I would take pictures of everything on my desk. I then took those images, with the help of Photoshop CS2, and combined them into the image you now see. It’s amazing what you can do when you’re inspired.
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