Notice this in Cambridge today – looks like a wee fail to me (there was a few more than the two bikes in the picture along the wall outside the college)
“Please do not lean cycles against this wall”
sign FAIL
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
securing wordpress
Notes on how to secure wordpress 2.7.1 (this is all pretty well documented, but I ran into a couple of dohs!)
o Remove the default admin user
o Create a user you want to login as
o Login as this new user
o Remove the ‘admin’ user – assign all posts to new user
o Force all admin features via HTTPS, edit wp-config.php
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
o Force logins via SSL, edit wp-config.php
define('FORCE_SSL_LOGIN', true);
Things I ran into was a cut and paste error inserting those annoying smart quotes, but once I did that everything’s golden.
playing with textmate
OMG (and other leet things), textmate has built in just about everything, ok probably faster using a real web browser to post a blog, but I’ll have to see how useful the svn and SQL bundles are.
upgrading the playstation
Well finally borrowed an USB disk big enough – though the actual backup of the playstation ended up at 8GB it complained about fitting on my USB drive. So aside from a simple backup of the old drive via the XMB tool. Replace the old 40GB 2.5″ SATA drive with a nice shiny 320GB model (and then restored from the USB drive)
Quite a few guides on the interweb about how to do that, but I’m still slightly shocked that Sony are using standard parts these days!
Time taken: 2 hours (mostly waiting for backup/restore)