Category: the rest
-
Caving on North Korean threats sends the WRONG message
The Washington Post and I don’t often agree – but in this case, we do.. There is no way we should cave on this – given that there are reports from defectors that the People’s Republic has it’s hands in CyberWarfare, it’s not entirely clear what the proper response would be, but how about we…
-
WordPress[DOT]com shortcode comes to WordPress self hosted… sort of…
I’ve always wanted a “display posts” shortcode in self-hosted WordPress – because it’s so handy – there is on in WordPress.com blogs, but to self-hosted, it never came… 🙁 so I found this plugin: Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more but I have more than enough plugins – so added it to…
-
Overselling – an industry standard or a dinosaur waiting for extinction?
The term [glossary]overselling[/glossary] is synonymous with web hosting – almost every host promises you the earth, moon and stars – and then expects you to not want to use them. So – in web hosting – almost all hosts promise “unlimited disk space” – or “unlimited transfer” – the reality is that there will either…
-
Weak passwords must DIE…
Short, dictionary based password must DIE… and here’s why: We have just found a fairly strong, but short email password compromised on a server (which only has two customers on it) – this allowed scammers from Thailand to send out emails via the customer’s account for a number of hours before they were detected.
-
Gluten Free Beet + Carrot Cornbread
Gluten Free Beet + Carrot Cornbread a delicious gluten free cornbread with added vegetable fiber
-
No WMDs in IRAQ… funny … why has ISIS now found them?
Remember how the left (and that means much/most of the media) – told us that no WMDs were found in Iraq? Hmm… ISIS storms a complex with reserves of Mustard Gas + sarin… by every sensible definition – those are … wait for it… WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION! From the Telegraph article… The jihadist group…
-
postfix queue clearing…
first – you want to get the postfix-delete.pl script from here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-flush-mail-queue.html Next – create a script to inspect the mailq and then a single message – finally, ask if the message should be deleted – very linear script.. #!/bin/sh cd /var/spool/postfix/deferred/; MAILQCHECK=`mailq`; if [ “$MAILQCHECK” = “Mail queue is empty” ] then echo $MAILQCHECK;…