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Slow WordPress site and Failing Contact-Form-7

Had a problem with our WordPress website recently where is just suddenly slowed down. Every page used to load in less than 2 seconds but now takes between 6 and 10 seconds just to complete the initial GET response. I've tried several things to troubleshoot and fix this including drilling through long log files, restarting services, disabling/enabling plugins and themes, and even setting up Caching on this small site, to no success. After many hours, I gave up and decided to look at another issue that's popped up on the site - the Contact-Form-7 Captcha stopped working. It would just show a spinning wheel and will get stuck there. Even if I put in the correct captcha key on the form, the email gets sent out but the form stays on with the spinning wheel, so there's no visual acknowledgement to the user. Have gone to google and found a suggestion here to change the permissions on the dynamically created captcha image and text files. From line 70 onwards of \wp-content\plugins...

Cisco ASA 5510: Blocking access by domain name

Was requested to block domains to a certain group of users. This is the code I use on my Cisco 5510 IOS 7.2(2)  to block facebook.com ! define the domains that you want to block regex domain1 "\.facebook\.com" regex domain2 "facebook\.com" ! identify the users' IP addresses. ie, the users you want to block ! if you want to block all, replace 'host 192.168.0.x' with 'any' access-list inside_mpc extended permit tcp host 192.168.0.100 any eq www access-list inside_mpc extended permit tcp host 192.168.0.101 any eq www   class-map type regex match-any DomainBlockList match regex domain1 match regex domain2 class-map type inspect http match-all BlockDomainsClass match request header host regex class DomainBlockList class-map inspection_default match default-inspection-traffic class-map httptraffic match access-list inside_mpc policy-map type inspect http http_inspection_policy parameters   protocol-violation action drop-connection   match reques...

Can't activate Ms Office 2010 over the internet

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A user had this problem today where they can't activate their Ms Office 2010 Pro Plus over the internet. The gives out a 0x80070190 error. The solution is actually very easily. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office 14\ Right-click on one of the office apps (ex, Outlook.exe) Click on Run As Administrator Then proceed with the activation.