My ISP (1&1) suspended my access to my web account for a day yesterday. The reason was because I had put up a phishing site on an occluded url to show one of my clients how easy it was to create a targeted phish to harvest their login details.
i had an idea triggered by something i saw obliquely in today’s newspapers.
it is clear (at least to me) that technological and litigation based solutions to peer-to-peer and other means of file sharing are not going to work. and i really don’t believe in making the ISP’s police all traffic. We could just use encryption to avoid that anyway.
do you know, i really can’t get my head around why the permalinks don’t work ok with any structure. all the mod_rewrite seems to do is take any old url and make it go to index.php with everything else appended as a query string.
following on from my previous post, i’ve been playing with pathinfo based permalinks on my 1&1 server. and the truth is that i can’t get them to work at all. i set up a mysql blog – pure vanilla WP 2.6. no changes at all from the basic build other than the installation of an […]
well, i’ve spent an hour or so on trying to create multiBlog in the most simple manner possible. in some respects, with the new version of WordPress, the biggest sweat of maintaining multiple installations is lifted by being able to specify a separate directory for wp-content. but using this we can’t guarantee the workings of third party plugins.
in turns out that we can solve the multiBlog issue very very simply and with only two minor edits.
for a long time the standard way of having alternate rows of a table (or whatever) in different colours has been to use the modulus.
it occurs to me that having the database encapsulated in a single file leads to making multiple blogs available on a single installation of wordpress remarkably easy. i’d want to use something like $_SESSION['SERVER_NAME'] or equivalent to determine the name of the blog that has been requested, and point the database engine at the […]
Wassup version 1.6 looks very smart. but it doesn’t play nicely with PDO For WordPress (or at least the SQLite driver). There is a redundant call to mysql_* function in lib/main.php – but that’s just one of the issues. it looks to me like the author has really over complicated some of the sql for […]
i’ve just upgraded this blog to 2.6 beta3. I really like the new auto-diffing function within the post editor. very useful – takes WP one step closer to being a viable content management tool.
i have so many scripts lying around for handling users and logins. i seem never to be able to find one when i need it, and so end up constantly writing new versions. so i’m starting a project to create a definitive version. these are the functional requirements i’m designing to: user details management (CRUD […]