I recently noticed that my blog website was unusually slow. Initially, I thought it might be a server issue, so I took a closer look. However, the server seemed to be running smoothly without any apparent problems.

Next, I decided to check the databases, but everything there appeared to be fine as well. Still, the sluggishness persisted.

Digging deeper, I discovered something peculiar. A call to the following URL was taking an unusually long time to load (approximately 2 seconds per request):

https://www.kobi.co.il/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&noheader&proxy&chart=admin-bar-hours-scale

This led me to suspect the Jetpack plugin. To test this hypothesis, I went into the WordPress admin panel and deactivated the Jetpack plugin.

The issue was resolved immediately and the website’s speed returned to normal.

If you’re experiencing similar issues with your WordPress site’s performance, it might be worth checking if Jetpack is causing the slowdown. Deactivating it could save you a lot of frustration!

Kobi.

Since ChatGPT thinks I’m only writing about drones, I’m going to write about something else this time!

I’ve been testing OpenAI/ChatGPT’s search engine (AI Search Engine) and while it’s not bad, I have to admit that I expected more from it.

Don’t get me wrong – I can see why Google is scared of it but currently it feels Google finds better matches for what I’m searching for.

Note that I didn’t really do a full A/B testing to back up my impressions so I could be wrong.

With that said, this might change in the future so I’ll keep playing with it and see if it improves…

Kobi.

Just follow this link:
https://www.msoutlook.info/question/755

-Kobi.

VMware wrote:

Many of you have been asking when will the vSphere Client become fully featured. We are targeting to deliver to you a fully featured version of the vSphere Client later this year, in Fall 2018.

It is really sad to see that VMware is still not listening to what their customers want (link #1 & link #2). People just want the legacy C# client back.

-Kobi.

It is official, miao is no longer with us.

I originally installed it on May 7th 2006 so it was running for about 10 years until it died!

-Kobi.

After more than three years, it’s time to update my knowledge base design… 🙂

-Kobi.

In short: Nice idea, not so good implementation.

Nice idea: welcome back, 1988! IRC anyone?

The Implementation:
1) Scan a qrcode in order to join a room, seriously?
2) Where is /list?
3) Why nickname is only unique per room? people can use other people’s nicknames and impersonate them on other rooms…
4) Where is the android client?
5) Why does it require IOS 7?
6) Why is it only available on the US apple store?

Really disappointing.

On the other hand, you can always connect to DALnet 🙂

-Kobi.

(Kobi_S @ DALnet)

Good to see our new fedora mirror is up and running.

Too bad ubuntu are much slower.

-Kobi.

~1 hour after the issue started – Google: “This issue is affecting less than an estimated 0.024% of the Gmail user base”
~4 hours after the issue started – Google: “The email delays are affecting less than 50% of Gmail users”

Google, maybe you’re great with math but your support sucks big time.

-Kobi.

We just replaced our old helpdesk system (manageengine’s servicedesk) with SysAid 9.1.01 RC2 (b69).

I really like the new UI. The installation went smoothly, the only issue was with the init-sysaid.sh script that I had to dos2unix.

-Kobi.