Hopefully someone else up here in Canuckistan can use this;

Name: Rogers MMS
APN: media.com
Username: media
Password: mda01
Server: 172.25.0.107
MMSC: http://mms.gprs.rogers.com
MMS Proxy: 10.128.1.69
MMS Port: 80
MCC :302 (should already be filled in)
MNC: either 720 or 72 depending on your SIM card (should already be filled in)
APN Type: mms

Enjoy MMS!

1. Login to phpmyadmin

2. Find your wordpress database.

3. Go to the ‘wp_posts’ table in the database.

4. Hit the ‘sql’ tab in phpmyadmin, and use a variety of the following commands.

To Delete Posts By Date:

DELETE FROM `wp_posts` WHERE `post_date` like ‘%2008%’;

To Delete Posts With Certain Content In The Body:

DELETE FROM `wp_posts` WHERE `post_content` like ‘%test_content%’;

To Delete Posts With Certain Content In The Title:

DELETE FROM `wp_posts` WHERE `post_title` like ‘%test_content%’;

Note that you will have to change the contents between the % and % in those sql statements to your own.

That’s it. Watch it delete your posts in just seconds, instead of hours and hours of work through the wordpress backend.

Hope this helps you out too.

ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can’t open file: ‘./202_SITENAME/202_locations_block.frm’ (errno: 24)
ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can’t open file: ‘./202_SITENAME/202_locations_block.frm’ (errno: 24)
ERROR 23 (HY000): Out of resources when opening file ‘./202_SITENAME/202_locations_block#P#p413.MYD’ (Errcode: 24)

WTF?

I have plenty of RAM, and resources on my new box so this was a little confusing. Turns out that you need to make a couple adjustments in order to re-import the database on Linux servers. Here’s what I did to make it import properly.

first, you have to edit the security limits for mysql on your NEW server, especially if you have a high number of connections to databases. This is done like this;

# nano /etc/security/limits.conf

and add these lines to the bottom

mysql   soft    nofile  24000
mysql   hard    nofile  32000

Then, you’re going to have to edit your my.cnf, which for me on Ubuntu is done like this;

# nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

and add this line in the tuning section

open_files_limit        = 20000

Now, go back to your original server, and re-dump the database like this;

mysqldump -C -i –single-transaction -u root -p DATABASENAME >>DATABASENAME.sql

Then, scp the file over to your new server like this;

scp DATABASENAME.SQL username@hostname.com:

Once the file has transferred, ssh over to your new host and issue the following commands (for Ubuntu, may be different on other Linux flavors)

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

/etc/init.d/mysql start

mysql -u root -p

<entering password>

then, once you are inside the MySQL command line you’re going to want to select your database like this

> use DATABASENAME;

then, you’re going to want to import your database from the old server

> source DATABASENAME.SQL;

wait a few seconds, you shouldn’t see any errors and then you’re done. You can exit the mysql command line now;

> exit;

Now you should have a perfectly working P202 installation, on your new server migrated from an old one.

Incase you’re wondering, no I did not go remove these settings – figured higher limits were good anyway – if they cause a problem on my server I’ll update this post for y’all.

Hope this helps someone else as I had to do a couple hours of searching, and testing to get all this sorted out.

Pretty straightforward really – I’m sorry to say this about OpenX because I really did like them for a number of years. Lately, they’re just shit. Yup, completely and utterly shit.

Ever since the name change to OpenX they’ve been going downhill, and I think nearly everyone in the community will agree with me – including some of their very own (former) developers.

Riddled with vulnerabilities, slow and non-required code and other problems we’ve probably all experienced with it. Not to mention no automatic optimization of your ad zones.

This past week, the final straw was picked. My OpenX installation was hacked, AFTER I had applied the latest security fix to it. Talking around to buddies, this happened to a number of people as well. I couldn’t believe it. Of course, I was venting my frustrations to one of my buddies and he told me he had recently switched from OpenX to Google DFP for the very same reasons.

I hadn’t even heard of Google DFP at the time. So, I went over to their site, logged in and got started creating my placements (websites), ad units (ad zones) and my orders (advertisers).

All I have to say is – WOW. It’s actually pretty cool. I remember the first times I was using OpenX it was quite complicated and difficult to understand how to setup the campaigns and the advertisers and ad units. Not so with DFP, just a few minutes of clicking and I figured it out.

Let’s take a look at the process for Google DFP versus OpenX shall we?

Google DFP Process:

1. Login using your existing Google or Google Applications account.
2. Click Inventory, Click Placements
3. Create a placement (eg. Sitename.com-Sidebar)
4. Click Ad Units
5. Create Ad Unit (eg. Sitename.com-Sidebar-Left-125×125)
6. Click Orders
7. Click New Order and add your advertiser, save it, then upload your image or html for the ad.
8. Click Inventory
9. Click ‘Generate Tags’ and copy the code to your page.
10. Wait 10-30 Minutes for Ads to Appear. You’re Done.

OpenX Process:

1. Buy a Domain name for OpenX
2. Buy Server Space for OpenX
3. Create OpenX Database
4. Install OpenX
5. Setup and Configure OpenX  (gfl if on windows hosting by the by)
6. Secure OpenX on your server.
7. Ensure Maintanance Mode is setup for OpenX so your ads will eventually display.
8. Now you can start setting up your ads.
9. First Click Inventory, Then click Websites & Zones
10. Add your website to OpenX
11. Add zones to your website
12. Now click back to Advertisers & Campaigns
13. Add an Advertiser
14. Add a Campaign to your new advertiser
15. Add some banners to your advertisers campaign
16. Set the zones in which your ads will appear  in banner configuration
17. Go back to Websites and Zones
18. Find your website and Zone
19. Click on it, then go to the fourth tab ‘invocation code’
20. Generate your invocation code
21. Go and paste it into your site along with any other relevant code
22. 10-60 minutes later your ads should start appearing.

As you can see OpenX requires a lot more clicks, typing and setup to get your ads and advertisers into the system. Nearly double in-fact. And it’s quite possible I’ve forgotten something here.

With Google DFP it’s actually much easier. Far fewer clicks are required and the added benefit that you can have it fall back to traditional Adsense ads if your network or in-house ads aren’t converting. As far as I understand their documentation the fallback will happen automatically if you select Adsense fallback when creating your ads.

There is one kind of major gotcha that I noticed thought. Due to Adsense terms and conditions, if you have more than 3 ad units on a page no ads will display, even if it’s just fallback to Adsense. Not too big of a deal but still something to note. I had to turn off Adsense fallback for all of my ads except one on the page and then all ads were displaying.

Bottom Line – Google DFP is quicker, easier, and probably far more secure than OpenX to use for your advertising delivery throughout your network. The only problems I’m having with it is the fact that it does sometimes crash Firefox or IE, but I haven’t had any problems with Chrome yet. I do wish they’d make a nice desktop application like they have for Adwords, but I’m sure that’s coming down the pipe.  One other thing I noticed is stats seem to take a long time to show up. As of this writing I’ve had DFP setup for two weeks and I still have no data available to create a report. I’m sure they’re still working out the last bugs in the system so this should be fixed soon.

Anyone else using DFP? What are your thoughts? Have you also migrated from OpenX? Let me know in the comments, I’m interested what others think of Google DFP vs OpenX.

Yup. I said it. And on top of that I also admit that it happened to me.

Rewind about to about 2 years ago when I first got into this industry and I kept saying ‘oh, $500 a month while I sleep would be good enough for me’ and I truly meant it – at that time. People kept telling me once I reached that point I would want more, and of course I didn’t believe them.

So much I’ve learned since then.

Once I was up to $500 a month I wanted that to be $1000, then I wanted it to be $3000 and etc. Well eventually I did reach that point and boy was I on flying. I was so happy with myself, spending money left and right, not really working, and just generally having fun with life. It was honestly the best 6+ months of my life. Did way more things than I had in the past, met a lot of new people, travelled to a bunch places and events and so much more.

This all sounds well and good so what’s the problem?

Cockiness.

Once I started surpassing the amount of money I wanted to earn per month ‘while I slept’ I basically stopped working, and just partied with friends. Sure, I did a bit of work here and there but nowhere near what was required to keep things a-float.

This ended up with me spending all my profits and not re-investing them in any new or, already successful ventures. Huge fucking mistake.

Classic mistake that probably everyone makes but nobody really wants to admit. We’ve all seen the warnings in forums and on IRC but I think a lot of us refuse to believe it will ‘happen to me’. Well, I’m here to tell you that it does, and probably will.

Let’s face it, when you aren’t making any significant money and then suddenly you’re making quite a bit of money while you sleep it’s pretty fucking fantastic. This makes it very easy to lose sight of the original goal, which for me anyway, is to make enough income passively to live and have fun without having to sit at a computer all the time.

This past month it’s really hit hard, with paying bills becoming troublesome etc. And, I’m basically right back to where I didn’t want to be – grinding 60-70 hours a week at the computer just to get back to where I was originally. Had I stuck with it, I’d probably still be down around 5-7 hours of work a week to attain the same financial benefit.

All in all, great lesson learned. I wish I wouldn’t have had to learn it this way, but overall it’s probably best I did because nothing teaches like experience. Take it from me guys (and, gals) don’t get cocky when you start profiting, and keep at it, cause surer than shit something will fail and you’ll go from making thousands, to nothing, literally overnight.

Basically it allows you to manage multiple computers, with a single mouse and keyboard (and monitor(s)…). All this without the use of VNC software, or KVM software.

So, what’s this mean? Well, if you’re like me and have a bunch of computers humming along you may want this. For example, one computer that you may be using Traktor or Ableton Live on, one that you’re checking stats on and one that you do your work on, you can quickly and easily drag your mouse across to each of them when required.

No more flipping switches, or connecting over a possibly unsafe connection.

It’s free, opensource, and fucking awesome.

Synergy Plus - Share Multiple Computers without KVM or VNC

Like I said – pretty fucking awesome, eh?

Here’s the feature list from their site in-case you’re curious.

• Move your mouse easily between computers
• Requires nothing other than existing ethernet
• Copy and paste between your computers
• No need to press any buttons (unlike KVM)
• You can still use multiple monitors on the same computer
• Lock the mouse to one screen temporarily (useful for games)

You can grab the code here, and make use of it yourself.

No. I wasn’t paid for this post, just got this random email from them explaining their product and to check it out – probably because OpenX has my email address or because I’m on their consultancy list with one of my other companies.

I thought I’d contact you to introduce you to Adtelligence, a new analytics application which will change the way agencies, ad networks and publishers will monitor the performance of campaigns, and report information to their advertisers, and help you reinforce the value of OpenX to your clients.

Adtelligence sits on top of OpenX (*) and offers a level of intuitiveness, customization and convenience that are unknown in ad serving and campaign reporting… and at no cost for the product currently online.

(*) Adtelligence is however compatible with the OpenX Community Download and OpenX Enterprise only. We’re not able to accommodate users of the OpenX Community Hosted product.

At a later stage, Adtelligence will also deliver inventory optimization and yield management capabilities, helping your clients and any media agencies, large publishers and ad networks make the right decisions regarding the management of their advertising inventory. Since we’re planning to charge these future applications, we will want to discuss with you at that point a model that will let you benefit financially from the commercialization of these applications to your clients.

We’d love to get your views on Adtelligence, and would therefore recommend you take a look at the product demo at www.adtelligence.net. Also feel free to start using the product with your clients, if you think the product is right for them.

Thank you for helping us gain visibility with your clients and future OpenX users. We’d be happy to speak with you over the phone, in the event you’d like to know more about our project and company.

And, here’s their video.

If I remember I’ll post an update after I check it out and what my thoughts are on it.

ASW Post is still severely late, but it’s coming I swear.

But, that’s okay because there’s something new out there that makes all of this history. I found out about these things called a “Poken”. In basic terms, these things are electronic business cards. They’re a small USB device that stores all of your key information so you can quickly transmit it to others. This means no more business card printing which is great for the environment and no chance of running out of cards to hand out – of course, if you lose the device you’re kinda screwed, but how often do you lose your keys? I assume, never.

So, why do smart marketers need one of these? Simple, it’ll cut down on your luggage if you’re bringing 1000 cards and you can keep everything organized in one spot and quickly download it to your computer or laptop when you need to. No more rummaging through napkins, post it notes or whatever else you have peoples contact information written on. Not to mention that these Pokens come in cool colors and styles – ranging from business professional to cutesy little ninjas and monsters.

So, how do they work? Just as you’d expect in today’s technology driven world – you simply walk up to anyone else with a Poken, touch them together and you’ve transferred your contact information. Could it really get any simpler? I don’t think so.

Obviously it will take some time for everyone to have these, so the transition might involve some hand writing and converting information to get it on your Poken, but in the long term I really think lots of people will start using these and it will only get better and easier as time passes.

I personally love this idea, and will definitely be picking one up to use at Affiliate Summit West, now the problem is deciding which one I want to get!

See you at ASW 2010 and I’ll even let you touch my Poken if you ask nicely!

I’m not a super ninja with rewrite rules, so I had my buddy Eli Sand from nerdscene give me a hand on these. Also note, depending on your configuration options these might need to be changed. The key thing to note is to convert the (.*) to ([^_]) instead.

Here are the original Apache Rewrite rules;

RewriteRule ^item-(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*).html$ auction.php?title=$1&item=$2&country=$3&ccid=$4
RewriteRule ^item-(.*)_(.*)_(.*).html$ auction.php?title=$1&item=$2&country=$3
RewriteRule ^item-(.*)_(.*).html$ auction.php?title=$1&item=$2

Here are the typical redirect rules for your LIGHTTPD WordPress Vhost;

url.rewrite = (
“^/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content)/(.*)” => “$0″,
“^/(.*)\.(.+)$” => “$0″,
“^/(.+)/?$” => “/index.php/$1″,
)

And, here’s what we’ve added to make it compatible with PHPBay

url.rewrite = (
“^/item-([^_]+)_([^_]+)_([^_]+)_([^_]+).html$” => “/auction.php?title=$1&item=$2&country=$3&ccid=$4″,
“^/item-([^_]+)_([^_]+)_([^_]+).html$” => “/auction.php?title=$1&item=$2&country=$3″,
“^/item-([^_]+)_([^_]+).html$” => “/auction.php?title=$1&item=$2″,
“^/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content)/(.*)” => “$0″,
“^/(.*)\.(.+)$” => “$0″,
“^/(.+)/?$” => “/index.php/$1″,
)

Pretty easy stuff really, but took a minute to wrap our heads around the conversion of the rules.