Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
Just about everyone has some kind of flash memory stick. They come in cereal boxes and you get one if you open a new bank account. The 32MB sized ones are so inexpensive to produce that they are being given away.
Yesterday, Intel launched their Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. This isn’t a memory stick for [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Security, Tech Tips
Managing users is essential when running a forum. In spite of phpBB’s many strengths, it is lacking in this area. Deleting a user in the administration panel is quite an involved task and I normally do this through the backend by directly modifying the phpbb_users table in the MySQL database.
While this is not the [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 10 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Programming
I have forums that get thousand’s of page views per month. While the number of readers are increasing, so also are the spammers posting their ads. It got to the point that I had to switch the user registration to require the administrator to activate a new account. This can prevent the obvious spammers, i.e. [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 07 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
I recently got a Palm Pilot and I’m amazed at what you can do with it. You can store your contacts, to do lists, and appointments in a device that fits nicely in a shirt pocket. In addition to this, I use it for writing articles for my web sites (including this blog). Another thing [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 02 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Applications
Just a few days after the WordPress 2.11 update was released, another update has been issued. This time its a fix to a security exploit written into the software by a cracker. WordPress was modified in 2 areas which would have allowed remote execution of code.
This exploit only affects those who made the upgrade to [...]