I found a pretty good Wordpress Security Whitepaper over at BlogSecurity.net. I followed most of the techniques, especially those that concerned protecting the wp-admin directory, since that's what got me hacked last time.
Also, today, while installing 8 GB of RAM into my virtual server and after more than a decade of …
Read MoreFirst and foremost, I'd like to wish netnerds.net a happy birthday!
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Read More- I'm so excited -- my best friend and tech partner-in-crime, Brandon, recently picked up PowerShell after I gave him a copy of Wrox's Professional PowerShell. He totally loves it and has already created a few new PowerShell scripts and converted other ASP.NET/VBScript scripts. One of his favorite scripts checks the …
Read More Hah! I bought an 8-bit tie the other day from ThinkGeek. It arrived, I sported it at work much to everyone's pleasure then I went home and took an action shot.
My smile in the picture looked silly but the tie was rockin so I 8-bitted my face and submitted it to ThinkGeek. I checked out the page today and there I are! …
Read More- Hai. I got hacked. brb.
Read More - Ahh! One of my servers had a bad stick of RAM and caused all sorts of problems with VMWare ESX Server. At first, I thought ESX was too sensitive but later realized the stick was just super bad. Meanwhile, my evaluation version expired and so I decided to use VMware Server 1.0 (free) on top of SuSE 10.2 (also free). …
Read More - Thanks to my favorite site on the planet, I discovered a new service called whos.among.us which provides a really cool AJAX based web stats app. The setup is very simple -- it only requires you to embed a picture on your website to begin tracking visitors. There's no setup or registration required. My favorite part is …
Read More I borrowed part of the title of this post from Wired's Wiki How-to but I thought their list was kinda crappy so I decided to make my own. I created the list below based off of what I've been told by my friend Trevor, an out-of-office ninja.
Trevor is always calling me from the beach or the lobby of a hotel (breaking …
Read More- I really wish I had more experience with DTS and SSIS (Replication, Clustering, Hardcore HA too), especially since I've been a DBA for 8 years. I bought the Wrox book "Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS" years ago hoping that one day I'd be making 50-step DTS packages but I never had the need. Today, I finished …
Read More - This is driving me absolutely crazy. For the 80th time, I'm required to create a user and give it the sysadmin role. I *have* to do this because the software is business critical (Blackberry Enterprise Server, Interwoven DMS) and installs will fail without it. With some software, I can temporarily grant access the take …
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