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WordPress Plugin Failure

Posted January 7, 2012 By Landis V

After a recent WordPress upgrade, I found myself unable to log in again and was receiving HTTP 500 messages.  Kudos to Jeff for his post at http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/02/18/quickly-disable-or-enable-all-wordpress-plugins-via-the-database/ for the quick backend disable of plugins through the database.  I’m sure there are other posts describing the process out there, but his came up near the top of Google’s results for my search and were very simple and straightforward – and solved the problem in short order.  Fortunately I wasn’t under his time crunch to get things fixed, but I appreciate his documenting the fix after the fact.

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Yet another reason to leave Verizon if you haven’t found one yet

Posted November 16, 2011 By Landis V

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/mobile/231903096?cid=nl_IW_daily_2011-11-16_html

They don’t pay you for the use of this data – your data – that they turn around and use to bilk even more money out of you.

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10/27

Posted October 27, 2011 By Landis V

http://www.priceprotectr.com/

http://iscs.sourceforge.net/ ISCS administrators do not configure the security subsystems separately. They never write a single order dependent rule or complex security association. They describe the security environment in functional, practical, process oriented terms such as, “Sales needs access to Sales Data”, “Marketing, Financial, Engineering and the outside Advertising Agency need access to the New Product Line data”, “the 192.168.1.0/24 network should participate in the VPN”, “the new acquisition’s 10.1.1.0/24 network needs to NAT globally to 172.16.8.0/24 to avoid conflict with the existing 10.1.1.0/24 network” or “the credit card database servers should not be allowed to send packets any further than the e-commerce web server in the DMZ to prevent data theft over the Internet.”

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5/19

Posted May 19, 2011 By Landis V

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3612AbuM154/CDC-Warns-of-Zombie-Apocalypse Looks like an amusing read.

http://thatwhichis.tumblr.com/post/5616002323/20-stats-about-the-us-housing-market-that-will-make-you

http://steveg769.bizland.com/spiralsbysteven2/ Wooden gears

http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2170514&cid=36185434 A great idea for a honeypot FTP

http://www.lexinter.net/LOTWVers4/restatement_(second)_of_contracts.htm http://www.ali.org/

Really, really need to take some time to play with cfengine.

Had a funny thought about Apple (of the garden) being treated like a religion, “meticulous management of customer experience” (i.e., “herding the flock”), and suddenly it’s now the Rapture.

openssl s_client -connect #Command-line SSL connections

Would be nice to have a ping command with a configurable (via command line switches) exponential weighted moving average for packet loss. That way, you could watch some statistics on loss over intervals while running from a command line, and not just be interpreting loss for the time since you started the command an hour (day/week/whatever) earlier.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/diy-cellphone-microscope/?pid=1112&viewall=true I’m a little more interested in the spectrometer.  I always thought it would be interesting to have one of those.

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Great RFC on network architecture

Posted May 10, 2011 By Landis V

RFC3439 – “keep it simple, stupid!”  It has been too long since I’ve done any serious RFC reading. Caught the link to this one from Ivan Pepelnjak’s thoughts on complexity’s proper place being at the edge of the network.

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Data visualization tools

Posted April 29, 2011 By Landis V

ComputerWorld recently posted an article with information on 22 free tools for data visualization.  I’ve run across a few of these in the past.  Still need to put some focus on learning statistics principles to be able to better use the data.  Until then, this link will help me keep track of them.

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4/25

Posted April 25, 2011 By Landis V

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views…which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. –Doctor Who (confirm attribution)

http://tacacs.org/

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