Yearly Archives: 2009

phpBB Post Queue

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris

In phpBB 3.0.3 we added the possibility to queue posts of users who had a post count lower than an administrator defined threshold, this works very well at keeping spam out of the public eye on your board. But on … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.0 Address Tweak for SSL/TLS

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Chris

Since Firefox 3 scrapped the yellow address bar for SSL and TLS secured sites (i.e. https) and displays a nice green box for EV certificates I was hinted at a way to get a similar visual for non-EV certificates. You … Continue reading →

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WordPress archives

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Chris

I’ve been running my blog since late 2005 as such my archives had been getting a little bit unwieldy in the sidebar and stretching the page to extraordinary heights. I’ve reduced this clutter with some very small changes. First I … Continue reading →

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Planet phpBB

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Chris

I have created a phpBB Planet you can find it at planet.phpbb.cs278.org. Currently I am only aggregating 15 blogs of current and former team members, there is room for expansion. I am quite happy to add anybody who is notable … Continue reading →

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Mah Pizza

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Chris

Thanks Will! and Kenny.

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Can anybody explain?

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Chris

chris@sandman:/mnt$ sudo df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 459G -1.9G 461G 0% /mnt chris@sandman:/mnt$ sudo du -hs . 4.0G . I sure as hell cannot!

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phpBB 2.0.x Retired

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Chris

As of this morning phpBB 2.0.x has been officially retired, there will be one more month of security update support and after that time there will not be another release.

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New Year Server Crash

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Chris

My server for some reason unknown to me crashed last night, in the middle of new year festivities. Extracts from my logs show the, hopefully, coincidental timing of it. Dec 31 23:56:15 sandman rsnapshot[11655]: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.d/mail.cs278.org hourly: completed successfully … Continue reading →

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