I use SSL on my web servers for privacy and not authentication. Since it is my own use I don’t care if it’s from Verisign or Thawte. Also why shell out cash for the certificate when a self signed certificate will do just fine? Internet Explorer used to permit you to install web server certificates [...]
Software
Online video games are dangerous afterall
Wow. All this for a GunBound password. My nephew plays that game too, need to make sure he stays out of Sao Paulo. The funniest part is that the kidnapped player did not give up the password to his account.
Translator plugin notice in javascript
Updated: I’ve rearranged the code a little bit so that I could selectively translate parts of the notice. The updated javascript sections is located here. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – I had to switch back to the old copy of the ATPP WordPress plugin. My [...]
Translator plugin problems
Well be careful what you wish for. The new version of the translator plugin has a load balancing/fail over option so that if the primary translator is unavailable and does not respond in time then the request gets sent to the next translation engine. That is a very cool option. It also means your webserver [...]
Machine translation in WordPress
In 2006 I started playing with a translation plugin for WordPress. It was free and I liked the 1.0 version. When the author took the next version for purchase only (no longer free) I waited for version 4.0 and plunked down the money to obtain it. The plugin ATPP works reasonably well. It does not [...]
.htaccess to prevent wp-pass.php redirects
See the BUGTRAQ explanation here. By passing arguments to wp-pass.php, the wp-pass.php file will send the requesting browser to the URL that wp_http_refferer points to. By using a simple script the WordPress installation is easily verified as susceptible.
XHTML and image rotate for the header
I’ve had some free time so I’ve added so I went through all my posts (153!) and made sure they validate as XHTML strict. I’ve also played with this theme and added the image rotator for the header. Using Matt’s rotate.php script, I created a directory called and dumped some images in there. The images [...]
