Comments on: Graveyard server moves

By: wow gold

wow gold — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:04:35 +0000

Cool, the post.

Thanks for the information.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:25:39 +0000

I noticed that the linked articleon Slashdot has been updated with new information.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:28:27 +0000

> @Jimmy: It was a lie, look at the Slashdot article again.

Not really a lie. I was following the mailing list before it even hit Slashdot. The Slashdot article was a little over the top though. The problem is that the developers were planning on putting in the code WITHOUT an announcement about it sending information (and the fact that you couldn’t disable it). The “idea” of the announcement part only came after the flamewar started. Even then the developers removed a bit of the more harmful code (sending all of $_SERVER) before release. Look at the original code the complainer posted with how to remove it. The author did basically tell people to shove it in the mailing list. A plugin to disable it was only written after he said he didn’t want to change it. The only real issue people have now is that it still is sending the URL of their blog, for no apparent reason (you certainly don’t need it to check for updates). On my part, I just wrote a plugin that allows it to check for updates, but sends http://please.respect.my.privacy.com as the URL instead. I even randomize the PHP version I send them. Great thing about Open Source, if you don’t like it, you can change it yourself.

By: ServDown

ServDown — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:00:00 +0000

@brasscrest - I feel it by my two post. It will hope to have if the problem is solved. Thanks.

By: brasscrest

brasscrest — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:49:20 +0000

@ServDown - You’re not going to get any answers with those couple of posts. Even if the DH staff happened to be reading these comments (which they may or may not do), you haven’t given the server names or even the URL of the site you’re having trouble with, so there’s no way for anyone to troubleshoot.

Go through the Contact Support dialog on the panel - from the error message in your second post, it seems like you mySQL server may have gone down.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:37:41 +0000

@Jimmy: It was a lie, look at the Slashdot article again.

Yes, please– update to Wordpress 2.3.

By: ServDown

ServDown — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:30:16 +0000

This is response in log-in to phpMyAdmin:

#2013 - Lost connection to MySQL server during query

¿Where is the problem?

Thanks.

Regards.

By: ServDown

ServDown — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:20:46 +0000

Hello,

In my website couldt not connect to Database. (phpbb+joomla). … any solution?

Pd. Sorry for me bad english.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:00:27 +0000

> Upgrade to Wordpress 2.3!

Hum… why would anyone ever do that?

Developers Admit WordPress 2.3 Spies On Users

By: Metin Gökçe

Metin Gökçe — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:42:10 +0000

Thank you vey much.