The new version of WordPress adds additional protection for cookies. It is very much worth adding the config option mentioned, since it helps protect against problems where a database have already been compromised. Hot on the heels of WordPress 2.5.0 is the security update – WP 2.5.1. Rumours that I have as many draft posts [...]
I saw this meme going around the blog world and decided to join in. history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head Work 73 ls 63 svn 62 cd 56 make 48 vi 24 sudo 24 grep 17 acroread 15 ispell 9 ./repos-update.sh Home 57 vi [...]
Geir mentions that GitHub is live and that ‘Git is conquering the world‘. At this point I feel rather smug. I keep a repository of my own files on one of my machines. When I set up this repository, several years ago, I picked Subversion. However, recently the repository server has been offline and, so, [...]
The new version (2.5) of WordPress came out recently. Upgrading this blog went smoothly. The most noticeable change is the redesign to the admin section. It is certainly a big improvement on the old.
I have been using Minefield for a while. This will be released as Firefox 3 at some stage next year and there have been some good improvements. Recently I switched to using this runscript to solve the problems of using the non-default Firefox. Through the -no-remote switch I can also use Firefox 2 at the [...]
I noted in the tech press last week that Automattic had acquired Gravatar. Matt has posted the code to enable gravatars on his blog. I rather like the idea behind gravatars and have enabled them on this blog.
I have been helping to finalise a map, for an upcoming orienteering event, and this morning I fired up OCAD (for the first time in quite a while, to add some logos to the map. It took me a couple of hours to add a handful of logos to the map. For reasons I do [...]
Tip #6 : Enhancing WordPress administration: Whenever I update a WordPress blog I think how overly complicated the ‘Write Post’ page is. There are lots of different pieces that you could use – most of which I have never had cause to touch. The post linked to suggests using Clutter Free to improve matters and, [...]
The new version of WordPress, the software used for this blog, was released yesterday. I took the plunge and updated straight away. Everything seems to be up and fine, but if any of you notice a problem then let me know. However, on upgrade I noticed a jump in database queries on page load – [...]
For several years now I have been keeping an orienteering/training log. This is something I programmed myself, as a project to learn php/mysql. I keep thinking about moving to a different system – Attackpoint or Nopesport for instance – but then remember how much info I have already and decide not to. Over the last [...]
I, like a lot of people, use Akismet to help block spam on my blog. Yesterday they announced that they had blocked two billion spam comments. While the work the people at Akismet do is fantastic there is something depressing in realising that 94% of the comments made to Akismet protected blogged are spam.
Last week the new version, Feisty Fawn, of Kubuntu was released. For this new version there had been the release of an upgrade tool. The aim of this tool was to make the Edgy -> Feisty upgrade easy. For me the upgrade process was not quite as smooth as they seem to suggest.
For my day to day internet browsing I use Firefox. One of the great features of Firefox is the ability to extend the browser using Add Ons (or extensions as they used to be known). Last week I cam across FaviconizeTab. This extension allows you to reduce certain tabs so that all that is displayed [...]
The BBC is consulting over its’ proposed on-demand services. You can give your feedback here (not sure if that is UK only or not). Of particular note are questions: 3) This concerns how long users will be able to store the content on their machine. I do not see how this suggestion can be feasibly [...]
Software patents keep cropping up, as various governments pass laws concerning them and as various others comments on them. If you are after information then a quick search for ‘software patents’ gives a reasonable selection of the media articles on and arguments for and against software patents. If you are British and anti software patents, [...]
Microsoft released IE7 last week and it seems likely that Firefox 2 will be released tomorrow. I have been running the Firefox 2 development branch nightly builds for a while now and on Friday I fired up a virtual machine, running WinXP, and installed IE7 to give it a try. The first thing noticed is [...]
