Trackback and ping disabled
Well, someone hit my blog with a pingspam run. I don't display pings on my weblog, so that was a fairly useless action. Still, MovableType 2.6 doesn't have any reasonable way of getting at and removing scores of spammed trackbacks or pings, so I've disabled this feature completely.
Feb 3, 2005 @ 08:43 » no comments » Sitestuff
Yikes!
Why did my computer freeze up? Crap! And why is iTunes still playing?
Oh, ahem, it's just the batteries in the wireless mouse that are dead. Pfew!
Feb 3, 2005 @ 13:46 » no comments » General
Moronic Windows behavior
I just bumped into another display of moronic Windows behavior. I'm setting up my mom's new computer with Windows XP Home. I have installed the McAfee viruskiller, ZoneAlarm and set up Windows and McAfee to download and install updates automatically. I also created a password protected Administrator account and set up a User account for my mom to use.
However, it turns out that Windows Update and McAfee's automatic update will only run when you're logged in as Administrator! That's nuts.
I can't let my mom's computer go without automatic updates and it's way too much hassle to have her (remember to) log out as her User account, log in as the Admin to run the updates, log Admin back out again, log User back in again, every time Windows or McAfee says there's an update available. Well, looks like Windows can't offer my mom the added safety of running as User account, so I ended up setting her account to Administrator level. Sigh.
Feb 10, 2005 @ 14:29 » no comments » Software
WordPress 1.5 released
Such a nice valentine's gift, WordPress 1.5 was released yesterday. There's work to do for me then.
Feb 15, 2005 @ 10:34 » no comments » Software
Craptcha
I can understand that some bloggers feel they need to implement a CAPTCHA to curb comment spam, but that doesn't excuse that a legitimate commenter loses his/her comment when s/he mistypes the captcha. If you use captcha's, you must redirect a commenter (whether bot or not) to a new page with with a new captcha and the commenter's comment still intact and ask them to try again. To just send them to a bare page with the message "invalid captcha" and no way to retrieve their comment is bad, very bad.
Feb 15, 2005 @ 11:21 » 2 comments » Blogosphere
Getting older
Slashdot reminds us that it's 10 years now since names like Yahoo, Apache, Ebay, Amazon, and Netscape appeared on the then young internet scene. Has it really been that long? I must be getting older quicker and quicker.
In (un?)related news: I haven't been very active here, but that's because I've been very busy redecorating and building a huge two person desk in our study, so we can convert my study to the baby room. I'll post some pretty pictures later, because the results of my hard work are quite satisfying.
Also, commenting has been disabled again because MT-Blacklist stopped working for some reason. Sorry. I'll try to find some time to fix things around here, but with the baby's ETA of 2 weeks, there are some more pressing things on my mind, as you understand :)
Feb 28, 2005 @ 12:50 » no comments » General
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