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Solving Pidgin cannot connect to Yahoo Messenger (YM)

by jimmy on Jun.19, 2009, under English, Linux

Starting June 18 I started having problem connecting to YM with Pidgin.
Somehow it’s random I can connect or not.

I google and several article/forum writing that need to flush dns cache and also about several YM server cannot be accessed from Pidgin.

I try my friend advice to change YM server configuration to IP rather than domain name.
And it’s worked..
You will need to use cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com as Pager server since June 24, or you can update to pidgin 2.5.7 to solve this problem

Some people are reporting changing the Pager server didn’t solve the problem, you can follow these instruction to update your pidgin to latest version (for Ubuntu) : Updating Pidgin to latest version in Ubuntu

The steps: (continue reading…)

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Move the blog to new domain

by jimmy on Jun.03, 2009, under My Life

After a while since I updated my blog I decide to move the blog from wordpress.com to my on domain jimmod.com

Although the hosting service is local but the server is at USA for better international access speed.

I still not sure whether to use http://jimmod.com/blog or a new sub domain http://blog.jimmod.com/

A friend of mine whose expert in SEO told me that subdirectory is better than subdomain in term of SEO.
But I think a subdomain look a lot cooler ;)

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