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Akismet: Unknown column ‘pingback_views’ in ‘field list’ on line: 529

I wouldn’t normally post this because it seemed so insignificant, but recently when I’ve been trying to mark certain pingback traffic as spam with Akismet, I’ve been getting a plain white page with the following error on it: Unknown column 'pingback_views' in 'field list' on line: 529 I couldn’t remember when this started happening, it might have [...]

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MySQL Windows Binaries No Longer Free

Interesting. It seems the MySQL group is continuing to shrink the binaries they provide for platforms, now Windows, with the excuse of “Hey, it’s open source, go build your own binary”. I think this will give a much-deserved shot in the arm to the PostgreSQL folks for the hell of a Oracle-clone database they have created.

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