Owls Count

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Rumours that I have as many draft posts as SKG are false - though more than ten will exist soon if I keep leaving them unpublished!

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
54 cd
52 rm
50 ls
25 svn
25 sudo
23 make
23 git
15 mv
14 irb

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, I needed easy offline access to the repository. Fairly much randomly I decided to use Git, through the git-svn tool.

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 same time, which is useful for testing and allows me to have a profile setup with web developer extensions.

How-To Geek recently posted instructions on setting GMail as the default mail client in Ubuntu. In the comments are equivalent instructions for Kubuntu users and there is an altered script that also deals with cc/bcc/subject/body.