random musings from a twisted mind
Archive for March, 2009
sign FAIL
Mar 31st
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”
securing wordpress
Mar 8th
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
Mar 1st
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
Mar 1st
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)