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WordPress file monitoring

By Jan Dembowski on June 16, 2008

Over a week ago I complained about WordPress users crying security wolf and not being able to recover their blog when the “Bad Thing(tm)” happens.
Since then a real brawl developed on the support forum that could be summed up like so:

One or more users is insisting that there is an XMLRPC exploit in 2.5.1.
The same [...]

Posted in Geek, Linux, Software | Tagged aide, blog, Linux, Opensuse, php, security, support, WordPress | Leave a response

Optimum Online: EPIC FAIL!

By Jan Dembowski on June 9, 2008

Around 5:30 PM today I had gotten an e-mail letting me know that my web server was down. I figured that since my server is in my basement, I must have had a brownout. No big deal I’d deal with it when I got home.
Only it was not me for a change. My cable modem [...]

Posted in Geek | Tagged Cablevision, Dix Hills, FAIL, ISP, support | Leave a response

Sigh, WordPress users and hacking

By Jan Dembowski on June 3, 2008

If you are not running the latest version of WordPress and you get hacked, don’t go to the WordPress forum and tell the world.  Odds are you invited the disaster yourself.
When WordPress 2.5 came out I was disappointed to find that the old version 2.3.x was basically abandoned.  There would be no more planned patches [...]

Posted in Geek, Software | Tagged backup, blog, php, security, support, WordPress | 3 Responses

Dell XPS 700 still no useful ETA

By Jan Dembowski on August 1, 2006

This morning checked my Dell XPS 700 status page. Originally it was supposed to ship last Tuesday July 25th but on that day it got bumped to today August 1st.
This morning I checked and the status…

Posted in Geek, Just Stupid | Tagged computer, customer service, Dell, support, XPS 700 | Leave a response

Dell is not the company they used to be (Updated)

By Jan Dembowski on July 25, 2006

After pushing my old PC up hill long enough I ordered a new kick ass Dell XPS 700 with a 24 inch wide LCD panel. I’m getting the black one.
I had received an e-mail about how to check the status on…

Posted in Geek, Just Stupid | Tagged computer, Dell, support, XPS 700 | Leave a response

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