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QMAIL-TOASTER remote redilivery loop problem
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
I recently switched from my old gentoo server to a new FC5 server. I opted to go with a qmail-toaster setup because, while I’m perfectly capable of manually making my desired qmail+vpopmail setup, I just didn’t want to spend the personal time doing it. So I figured I would give the toaster project a try. [...]
Series: CRM on S3 & EC2, Part2
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
So we’ve touched a bit on what to look for in your database. The comments made were by no means specific, and the requirements will vary from place to place. But the underlying principals are what are really important there. Now lets move on to something a bit more specific. Backup. There is an important [...]
Dude, You’ve been hacked!
Monday, May 15th, 2006
While investigating a breakin on a freinds server I came across this pretty damn cool little utility: The RootKit Hunter It’s a spiffly little piece of work, and it helped considerably. This server, for reasons I can’t say, couldnt be simply wiped and reloaded in a short time span… and HAD to, for a particular [...]
Captcha
Monday, May 1st, 2006
I’ve implimented captcha for comments. If this seems to work for eliminating bot-spam I’ll desist my comment moderation. Cheers DK
2.0.1 to 2.0.2 patchfile
Friday, April 28th, 2006
Sometimes us unix folk like to have a patchfile to upgrade our software (especially scripts) so I made one for upgrading my wordpress installation from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. ~/my_wp_webroot $ patch -p1 < WordPress_2.0.1_to_2.0.2.patch
Generic function/class names
Monday, April 17th, 2006
This is especially true when you’re writing a library which is meant to be absorbed into a larger codebase, but also true of a codebase in which you know you will be using foreign libraries to accomplish tasks. And I’m as guilty as anybody when it comes to this! When you are naming your functions [...]
Bad router, BAD!
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
So, in noticing general trends, I seem to have uncovered an (in retrospect) obvious link between cheap routers, port forwards, and network disconnects. It seems that, on a cheap router, if you have X port forwards you are increasingly likely to have random disconnects and such (especially with wifi) as X increases… so if your [...]
Playing with loopholes
Friday, April 14th, 2006
The most amusing things happen when you’re been coding a long time. I found, and used a “hole” in one of our database routines (which has since been fixed) getOneValueFromTable($srcTable, $srcField, $whereField, $whereValue); produces SQL like “SELECT $srcField FROM $srcTable WHERE $whereField = ‘$whereValue’”. Can you spot the potential problems in something like this? Consider [...]