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This isn't an urgent matter: I tried to read up on this and still just don't get it.

This was something that came up in a friend's blog who was getting frustrated w/ someone else's blog who kept pinging his PPS (?).

Ok, well...something in the line of that (see? I told you I don't get it).

What's the deal? And why is this a source of frustration for my friend?

A little more context, maybe?

Also, how much of an explanation do you need? Do you want an explanation of pinging or is that old news to you?

I dunno what a PPS is, but a lot of the time when someone rapidly pings some device on a network, it slows down.

The only PPSs I'm familiar with have to do with a WW2-era Russian Submachine gun and Purchasing Power Standard. <.< >.>

Ok, I'll *try* and be helpful. *looks around online*

Pulse per second signal? Packets Per Second? Any of that sound familiar to anyone? Sure doesn't to me.

lol... Pinging sub machineguns? WWII? So the Russians have been farther ahead of us technologically than we though...

Hmm.. I suppose it could be a quote out of ignorance. It could simply be that your friend has a robot that's crawling his site and "spamming" it. In that context, I would guess it might clog up his allowed "Posts Per Second" buffer, which could keep regular people from posting.


But that's a wildly uneducated guess.

I apologize for not being very clear and able to respond straight away.

Hmm....I wonder whether this attachment would help.

At this point, I think that pings are somewhat equivalent to counter counts/website hits. Maybe my friend is annoyed to see ppl trying too hard to make their blog seem popular or this activity slows down the blog server as a whole?

I don't see how PPS can be some form of service though.

P.S: If you bother to check out the actual blog itself, I won't guarantee that it's devoid of anything offensive.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=pps&Find=Find

any one of those?

http://www.petalingstreet.org/

The screenshot helped a lot. It seems PPS is a Malaysian Blog Portal/Aggregator called Project Petaling Street.

Since it runs on MovableType, pinging is basically a trackback from a member's blog. When a site updates that PPS is tracking, it'll notify the server and update the site. From what I hear, MovableType is written in Perl and generates static pages whenever it's updated. I also hear that MT is coded poorly and isn't really efficient, but that's all hearsay from Wordpress users.

Good griefy.....I almost laughed out loud. MSP, I think Project Petaling Street sounds more accurate in this case although Pandan Public School cracked me up as well. XD All this while, I thought PPS was some universal cyber term.

I eh....need to go figure out what MovableType means since I've never used WordPress before. Thanks for the input so far, it's been really interesting especially with Petaling Street. *chuckles*