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Announcing The Launch Of SPBS — the Simplest Possible Blogging System

And by “Launch,” I mean “I’m starting to write it.” There’s a long way between that and a completed program. But you can check my progress at SPBS’ Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/spbs/
I’ve written an introduction to SPBS, and the reasons I’m writing it here, at http://code.google.com/p/spbs/wiki/SPBSIntroduction

Posted 07 February 2008 † schof § CSS § Computers § John Mark Schofield Meta § Linux § Python § Subversion § Web § security ‡ Comments (0)

Canada.com Infected With Trojan-Installation Browser Hijack

Summary: Visitors to Canada.com (not hyperlinked for obvious reasons) will have their browsers hijacked, and a series of prompts will download and attempt to install malicious software. This will happen ONLY on the first visit from an IP address. Subsequent visits to Canada.com will not experience the browser hijack.
NOTE: I have only experienced this on [...]

Posted 07 November 2007 † schof § Broken § Computers § Web § security ‡ Comments (1)

A Weak Defense: Breakins at CIHost.com

Here’s a reason to think twice about your colocation provider: CIHost.com has been broken into four times over the past two years, and had servers and equipment stolen. Their Chief Corporate Counsel, James Eckels, says the robbers “Knew what they’re doing,” and that their facility is “in a bad part of town.”
There’s very little payoff [...]

Posted 07 November 2007 † schof § Computers § Linux § Rants § security ‡ Comments (0)

Possible Wordpress Future Post Bug

I reported a bug to WordPress  and I’ve apparently gone as far as I can go with the folks on that bug.
I’ll be continuing this at the URL they suggested, and I’ll update this post.

Posted 21 June 2007 † schof § Broken § Computers § Sudosu.net Meta § Web § WordPress ‡ Comments (0)

Site5.com Lost All My Data, Then Warned Me That Closing My Account Might Cause Data Loss

Summary: Site5 sucks. They lost all my data and took my site down until I could restore from backup.
Wednesday night my site went down. Consider it a comment on the level of service site5.com provides that this didn’t worry me too much. I knew it would be back up shortly, like it always is when [...]

Posted 04 June 2007 † schof § Rants § Web ‡ Comments (3)

Why Is Dreamhost Not Talking About Grids?

Media Temple is talking about a new service called Grid-Server (via). It’s not available yet, but it’s supposed to be coming this month.
I have no experience with Media Temple. But Grid-Server seems like one of the brilliant ideas that are obvious once someone else invents them. Oh sure, other people have done redundant web hosting [...]

Posted 14 October 2006 † schof § Linux § Sudosu.net Meta ‡ Comments (0)