Archive For The “Donncha’s Links” Category
A few days ago I blogged without comment a video by Larry Lessig on the Creative Commons. It’s a great video, but I won’t use it to license my photography. Why? Jim covers most of my reservations about the scheme. This might come as a surprise to some but one of the main reasons I [...]
Finally got some shots of the Autumn leaves on the trees and the ground last night, a little late of course! Funny Olympus commercial – full of passion! Towering ambition – I knew I recognised Chicago’s Navy Pier! Chemtrail Conspiracy – via a scrawled message on a building site in Cork. Photo to appear tomorrow. [...]
There is no vulnerability in WP Super Cache. Chris blogged about it after we spent a late night of debugging it until 1.30am. But if: You are using Windows (props Computer Guru) You are using a Red Hat or Cent OS system, or just having problems with compressed content (props Dennis) You want to use [...]
Reports of an exploit in WP Super Cache are being investigated but details are vague at this stage. There are only 3 reports of this out of hundreds who installed the plugin. Email me at donncha at ocaoimh.ie if you find files from outside your blog in wp-content/cache/supercache/ Tell me the following if you can: [...]
Post digg. Ireland’s Prime Minister or Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, recently received a nice pay rise of €38,000. He is now one of the highest paid heads of state in Europe. He even earns more than George Bush! Here are 50 ways his party, Fianna Fail, laugh at Irish voters. (via). Twenty Major elaborates on a [...]
HolisticNetworking is now on WordPress MU 1.3 describes some of the issues one admin found when upgrading to the latest WordPress MU. Thomas – you should package that signup key system in a plugin and put it on the WordPress plugin site or WPMU Dev! More discussion on the WordPress.com theme marketplace and some interesting [...]
Waterworks – great feel to this image. Modsecurity and WordPress paper – I haven’t used ModSecurity myself but it seems like something good to know about. Let’s Dance – I love the long exposure flowing crowd! WiFi in an SD card? No more wires or plugging your camera’s flash card into a reader! Now, I [...]
Catching up on some links. Cubic Telecom win it@Cork emerging company award. Congrats Pat! Keith says Airtricity have a simple approach to electricity meter reading. Email and text. Sure you could lie, but they have a good notion of how much electricity you use and I’m sure a meter reader would be out after another [...]
Anyone who knows me knows I’m an avid photographer. Thomas Hawk was in a train station in San Francisco when a body was discovered on the tracks. He snaps literally *everything* and took a photo of the poor guy who died, but then he questioned if he should publish the photo? I admire how he [...]
SMPlayer is a nice front end to the mplayer movie player. .deb packages available for Ubuntu! (via) Gamma Goblin has an innovative solution to the new learner driver laws here in Ireland. Meanwhile, Grandad introduces his how to drive in Ireland series. Recommended tags for WordPress – just one of the new plugins springing up [...]
