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As I previously announced, I purchased a brand new domain for my stuff.
The blog is changing during the months, becoming more than a blog but less than a site.
That's because I decided to buy the domain BD-things.net, because this site contains all of my things, files, thoughts, projects, publications.
The old address daniel.graziotin.net now redirects permanently here and every link should have been updated/rewritten. Please contact me if you encounter problems.
I also took BD-blog.net which points here, too, but I won't renew it the next year.
Some things are different now, but you won't notice it
I obviously lost my decent position at Netcraft's Most Visited Web Sites rank list, but I don't care. It will be funny to advance with the new domain and reach a even better position!
I hope there will be a new beginning and a brand new life with BD-things!

BD-blog is currently at position 32755 in Netcraft Most visited web sites ranking. This means that I earned about 20k positions in just one month! This is thanks to the link of my review of GOS published on Distrowatch!

BD-blog site ranking, top 30000

I'm very happy with these results but now I want to begin a new race with a brand new domain name! I'm tired of bd-things.net, event if it brought me such great results and knowledge around the Net.
I will announce the new domain name very soon.

According to Netcraft, BD-blog recently broke the wall of top 50k in the most visited web sites. And finally, the RiskRating of the url reached score 0 (I don't know why, but it had a minimum RiskRating for almost two years).
Anyway, here is the screenshot of the site rank:

I'm so happy about it!

As you maybe already know, my permalink structure of the blog was of type http://bd-things.net/year/month/day/title-of-the-article/
I've just updated the permalink structure to this new one: http://bd-things.net/title-of-the-article/

This is nothing difficult, you can set it in Wordpress control panel (Options->Permalinks)

The problem was that, if I just updated the settings in WP control panel, all the links which pointed to my articles, written in forums, mailing lists, etc, would have been broken. I needed a mod_rewrite rule. And I'm a noob about mod_rewriting.
After some googling, I found this awesome mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet which brought me to the solution (after about 30 x /etc/init.d/apache2 reload ):


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


You just need to add two new lines in your mod_rewrite rules, as you see:

RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]

The line basically means:
take the urls which starts with a year (200x) / continue with a month / continue again with a day / contain some text / (with or without the final slash / )
re_write the url just like this: /contain some text/

Yeap, it works! You can try it!
This is my famous article about thermal problems of Amd Turion X2 cpus and Linux (this is the link that Google knows) http://bd-things.net/2006/12/02/hp-nx6325-and-friends-thermal-problems-solved/
The link will be redirected to http://bd-things.net/hp-nx6325-and-friends-thermal-problems-solved/.

Cool, isn't that? In this way, you can change your permalinks structure without loosing your google rank

Stamattina apro il browser, vado (ovviamente :-D) sulla pagina site report di NetCraft e scopro che il mio sito da americano é diventato bulgaro! Errore o silenziosa acquisizione della societá di webhosting che uso?
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