Posts tagged with: internet

Following the recent decision to finally pull finger and migrate this site across to Habari, I thought I'd look into using as much of the evolving HTML5 spec as I can, within the limits of what most browsers support. Now I'm going to admit that I've not read the whole spec (how much free time to you think I have? ) but I have glanced through the tags and seen there is a lot of new and potentially exciting stuff there. In this post I'm going to concentrate on the structural things I'm implementing. My blogs, like millions of others,... Continue reading ►

Wow!!! This is pretty impressive. In about two hours, the guys in the Habari community whipped up a functioning Mozilla Account Manager plugin for Habari so users can now take advantage of the Mozilla Account Manager extension to login/logout of their Habari sites from anywhere on their site (no need to locate the login button/form). I believe Habari may have pipped Wordpress to releasing such a plugin too.

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009: IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway. Linus calls Linux 'bloated and huge' - ... and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance per release over the last 10 releases making a cumulative drop of 12%. How are the Linux advocates in the corporate world substantiating this drop in performance? Solaris customers certainly wouldn't accept it. Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer - `Ellison was adamant:... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009: Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center - Oooo, and it#039;s in a Sun Modular Datacentre (aka Project Blackbox) running Solaris 10 and ZFS. The 'IBM buys Sun' story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - Interesting point of view on what#039;s happening with these rumours. The last paragraph in this article could be the deal breaker though. Heat Map Analytics - Brendan Gregg and Bryan Cantril have far too much free time. The end of this article has a interesting bit about writing a program that generates... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 13 Feb 2009 - 10 Mar 2009: Speeding to a Halt - Wow!!! OpenSolaris shutdown taken from about 41 seconds to a mere 7. Brilliant work here by Dan Price. Anatomy of Storage on the GRID - First Joyent, now MediaTemple. It's great to see large, popular ISPs moving across to OpenSolaris and ZFS to power their grid, hosting and storage offerings. HP Joins Solaris Community (Live Free or Die) - This is brilliant news, for Sun and all those HP customers running Solaris (and I know of some big banks on this list). Now I... Continue reading ►

I think one of the greatest features of Habari is it's multi-site support. Unlike Wordpress, Habari has multi-site support out of the box. This allows you to configure multiple blogs off a single installation of the code with a fair amount of control over how independent each of these blogs are. Each new blog can have it's own domainname (they don't even have to be subdomains), database, themes and plugins. However, if you prefer, they can all share the same set of themes and plugins too thus making managing and maintaining all of your sites a very simple affair. In this post I'll detail how you can take advantage of this functionality on Joyent's Shared Accelerator hosting without using up more than one of your allowed "websites", thanks to aliasing and Habari. Whilst these instructions are based on Joyent's hosting plan, they may be very similar for your hosting plan too. Let me know if these instructions work for your hosting solution too. Continue reading ►

Someone's been attempting to perform a SQL injection attack on my websites, but thankfully without much luck. I was running through my error and access logs this morning (whilst trying to troubleshoot an issue) and spotted this rather strange entry, well 16 of them this morning alone: 24.47.218.244 - - [28/Aug/2008:05:59:13 +0000] "GET /blog/saffer-brings-veggies-to-life /?';DECLARE%20@S%20CHAR(4000);SET%20@S=CAST(0x4445 ...[truncated for brevity]... %20AS%20CHAR(4000));EXEC(@S); HTTP/1.1" 200 6191 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" The truncated part is one huge long hexadecimal string. Being the curious person that I am, I investigated these requests a bit further. Continue reading ►

After my initial thought of checking out Habari, and the encouraging comment from Skippy, I decided to go ahead and investigate Habari for myself, so I downloaded Habari 0.4.1 and took it for a spin. Continue reading ►

lildude.co.uk is now running on Wordpress 2.5 RC2. Hopefully this will iron out some of the niggles I encountered with RC1. If you're tempted to upgrade, check out the screencast showing some of the cool new features.

Links of interest for 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008: Major Linux security hole found - Ooops. This is going to be around for some time and I wouldn't be surpised if a worm is created to capitalise on this vulnerability in the not too distant future. How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people - Just goes to show how fragile the internet really is. Given that it only took a ship to take out most of the emerging markets, imagine the chaos terrorists could cause if they took out the cables for the... Continue reading ►