Monthly Archives: September 2007

Akismet Sanitised

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Chris

I made the Akismet plugin a little more sane after discovering it sent the entire $_SERVER array to akismets servers. I changed: $ignore = array( ‘HTTP_COOKIE’ ); foreach ( $_SERVER as $key => $value ) if ( !in_array( $key, $ignore … Continue reading →

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Disabled Akismet, comments held for moderation.

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Chris

I have made the decision to disable Akismet, after reading some hype about the new WordPress 2.3′s plugin version check API, which turned out to be negative but reveals something interesting with regards to Akismet. The following code is taken … Continue reading →

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Broadcast Ping

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Chris

You can tell Linux to respond to broadcast pings by running this snippet from the console. $ echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to set the option permanently.

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Uptime – Take 2

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Chris

Turns out I had a computer on for even longer which I had forgotten about! benjamin, one of my Linksys WRT54-g’s. He doesn’t really do much apart from provide WiFi access for my PDA and networking for my room (two … Continue reading →

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Uptime

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Chris

Yesterday beast my NSLU2 passed 100 days of uptime a personal record for any of my machines, somewhat geeky chris@beast:~$ uptime 20:47:30 up 101 days, 3:00, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.16, 0.11

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New Nightwish Singles and Album

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Chris

Nightwish are soon to be releasing a new album (1st Oct. in the UK) they have also released two singles, videos and audio-pr0n provided by YouTube. Nightwish – Amaranth Nightwish – Eva

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Silly Signs

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Chris

Darn right they are silly.

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Windows Firewall

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Chris

I find a firewall on my windows installation personally a waste of resources, so I have it removed in my nLite customised installation media. Well I had problems installing the Company of Heros: Opposing Fronts Beta, it kept trying to … Continue reading →

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