I have to praise the guys at wordpress.com support. they are one of the best teams i have ever had the opportunity to meet. they have been helping me with my stats problem and even though the problem is not yet fully solved i have to praise them for the dedication devotion and professionalism. they have done an awesome job and have responded within a very short time.
All the best for the team i hope that they keep the spirit.

This is a fun one for me. I have managed to install our portal product on ubuntu with an Oracle XE database. It is all working well and I am going to play a bit with the site design and some JSR portlets…
This is NOT a supported platform and I am not sure how well will it perform under pressure but it is a nice alternative to the standard RedHat Enterprise Server and oracle 10g.
I just miss the ability to create more than one DB in the schema. I would have tried installing our Content Management services also…
May be I can do that on MySQL???? neaaaaaahhhhhhh…. never mind….
Ciao until next time that I prove Ubuntu is as good as RHES!

As I was reading internetNews the other day i encountered the article on the ubuntu Oracle, SAP situation and how they are not going to support Ubuntu.
I feel sorry for Ubuntu since it’s one of the coolest efforts I have seen to bring Linux to the world.
But I have no doubt that community driven knowledge will make it possible to put Oracle on the Ubuntu OS.
Thinking on the Ubuntu OS i can see that it is more widely adopted by PHP and MySQL service providers and with the home hosters of the same.
Even i am planning to put a VM on a machine at home to host some projects i want ot write using Java and MySQL.
I see no rush to start writing your eulogies over Ubuntu, just think of it as the non enterprise alternative to the RedHat.
But as far as I can recall RedHat was not enterprise out of the box and only lately to create more money revenue the ES line was established and supported the enterprise business.
Though from my experience many enterprises I encounter don’t use RedHat or Suse, they use Solaris or AIX.
So what is the end result of this article? why was it published?
I believe that the writer was trying to portray the spirit of the big players vs the small newcomer as non cooperative and destructive to the open source spirit where support is a matter of community ability and openness from the software side.

I have to totally agree with Mark Bittman. we dont usually eat good food and sticking with organic is just a gimic to get more money to someones pocket.
I Used to grow certified organic mandarin while giving the trees chimiclly generated furtuliser. that is not organic… the land is not resting… and the nutirants are not organic! but for the farming industry it was organic.
So watch Mark’s lecture in TED 2007 and give me your thoughts.
P.S. i am not a veg or a locavore or any of those funny definitions. i just like vegies.

I have to complain and whine over the wordpress.com statistics service.
From some strange reason it had registered my website as localhost and was collecting data on that account. But after a few days it stopped logging. So I have started looking around and noticed the localhost. I then went on and deactivated the plugin and reactivated it.
I reconfigured my id and added my website again (because it asked not my want) and then all of the sudden I had 2 accounts one localhost with the statistics and one www.ararat.org.il.
When I came to delete the localhost account, understanding I have no choice and the week’s statistics are gone, I realized it is not possible.
This is so annoying. Why can’t I delete the old account or even the new account?
Are all my blogs doomed to exist in wordpress.com domain if i add them?
Most of sites today let you remove your registration and alter you data. Why can’t wordpress.com be similar?
Is there an underling will to keep information for tracking of Wordpress.com blogs?
Or just a naive misunderstanding of requirements?