http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-activate-users/

So I fixed the errors and got it working again, so enjoy :)

Download: Fixed WP Activate Users

If you ever want to ever change back, just visit the page again and click the button to revert back to the original.
Note: It only affects the browser you select it in.

Tried it for a few months – was okay but I still prefer the original.

P.S. YouTube has changed their homepage today. Love it or hate it, change was due to happen.

Whether it’s a good or bad move, Typekit is now under the control of Adobe for better/worse.

I’m guessing an online Font service for the next version of Photoshop?
Click to purchase? $$$??

Who knows.

So Google is going to let users tell them what Ad’s they like with adding the +1 to them?

It will be interesting to see if it catches on.

Too bad they had to launch it today… It’s seems to be dwarfed by the news of Facebook’s new re-design which is causing a bit of fiasco – no surprise there then.

Once you know how it’s really easy but I kept getting a “502 Bad Gateway” error that confused me.

Benefits of sockets over TCP:

• Faster connection over sockets than TCP; 20% boost
• More secure as sockets are harder to break their permissions

Anyway, here’s what you need to do. All config locations are the defaults installed by Debian Squeeze.

Add Dotdeb’s sources in your Debian /etc/apt/source.list

## PHP5-FPM
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

Then install php5-fpm:

apt-get update
apt-get install php5-fpm

Change the settings in /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf

pid = /var/run/php5-fpm.pid
error_log = /var/log/php5-fpm.log
daemonize = yes
include=/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/*.conf

Recommended settings in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

;listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock

listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data
listen.mode = 0666

user = www-data
group = www-data

php_flag[display_errors] = off
php_admin_value[error_log] = /var/log/fpm-php.www.log
php_admin_flag[log_errors] = on
php_admin_value[error_reporting] = 0
php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 128M
php_admin_value[date.timezone] = Europe/London

Start/Restart Nginx and PHP5-FPM and voila

/etc/init.d/nginx restart
/etc/init.d/php5-fpm start

Everything should be running smoothly. Enjoy your new faster server!

Thanks to the people below who wrote about it first.

• http://www.kutukupret.com/2010/10/26/how-to-make-php-fpm-listen-on-both-tcp-and-unix-socket/
• http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-php-5.3-nginx-and-php-fpm-on-ubuntu-debian
• http://norbyit.se/blog/2011/01/configuring-php-fpm/
• http://andreas-lehr.com/blog/archives/491-nginx-wordpress-php-fpm-on-debian-squeeze.html
• http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1025286
• http://www.kutukupret.com/2010/10/26/how-to-make-php-fpm-listen-on-both-tcp-and-unix-socket/

* Install PHP-FPM on Debian (tutorial link)
* Install WebDav for Nginx – so I can download the repositories on port 80.

Most of this should be hassle free. I shall let you know how I get on.

Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the following lines:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx

Then run `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade`.

Follow the on-screen instructions and BOOM! You’re running the latest version of Nginx! My preference is to use Nginx these days instead of Apache2 purely because of the extra performance you gain out of it. Much higher requests per second (rpp).

I highly recommend trying it if you haven’t already.

I will post some of my useful changes that I have been making so that others may benefit from it :)

“Oh yay!” you will say! As it closely resembles Goolge+‘s “circles” feature which many had complemented as Google+‘s strong point.

“Facebook giveth, then they taketh away.”

Yes, that’s right. As I discovered, Facebook has removed the ability to “Hide all by annoying page“.

If you “Like” a page, they can post news stories in your main wall aka “feed”.

I don’t know about everyone else – but I hate people spamming the feed with promotions. E.g. I like “Coca Cola” for instance – but I don’t want to be subjective to their bullsh*t advertising.

Before you could solve that by hiding their posts but now when you “Hide this post” it tells you:

… the options are now limited. So Facebook is basically saying “You must put up with everyone’s spam – like it or hate it.”

I can see peoples patience wearing thin on this very quickly.

UPDATE: Several other things have been rolling out slowly through the day. I have noticed the “photo viewer” has changed.

I tried removing a Application notification posted by a friend, it does still allow you to block them.

Still no sign of being able to “hide posts by” a fan page without “Un-liking” the page yet.

UPDATE 9/9/2011:

They have finally returned the option to Hide all posts on fan pages. Thank you for catching up, eventually.

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