Archive for October, 2007

Google back links updated

October 30, 2007 at 11:21 am · Filed under Search Engine Optimization

All my websites have their back links updated (increased) in Google Webmaster Tools today. I also expect that PR will be updated soon. However the link command on Google shows no changes yet.

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Facebook Valued at $15 Billion — Microsoft Takes $240 Million Equity Stake

October 24, 2007 at 5:01 pm · Filed under Technology

Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation, and the companies will expand their existing advertising partnership. Under the expanded strategic alliance, Microsoft will be the exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook, and will begin to sell advertising for Facebook internationally in addition to the United States. …

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Install MySQL Community Server 5.0.45 Without Installer on Windows Vista

October 11, 2007 at 4:00 pm · Filed under Windows

  1. Download the zip file from here.
  2. Unzip it to your d: drive. Here’s what you should get after unzipping: d:\mysql-noinstall-5.0.45-win32. Rename this folder to mysql5045. (d:\mysql5045)
  3. Open folder d:\mysql5045. Copy my-small.ini and rename the copied file to my.ini. Open my.ini using notepad. Under line “[mysqld]“, enter the following lines:basedir=D:/mysql5045
    datadir=D:/mysql5045/data
  4. Run your command prompt as administrator. And enter folder d:\mysql5045\bin
  5. Type mysqld-nt.exe –install mysql5045 –defaults-file=d:\mysql5045\my.ini
  6. Type net start mysql5045 in command line. If you see the following, mysql 5045 is installed and running!The mysql5045 service is starting.
    The mysql5045 service was started successfully.
  7. IMPORTANT! type mysqladmin -u root password “your-new-password”, to set a password for your root account. The default install will leave no password required for your root account.

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