Today I noticed my wordpress installation got a bit slow. Apparently MySQL was very busy… Why? … SELECT * FROM wp_comments ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 32500, 50 SELECT * FROM wp_comments ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 32650, 50 SELECT * FROM wp_comments ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 32800, 50 … etc. The need to [...]

Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to pick up the following three security notices: [USN-612-1] OpenSSL vulnerability [USN-612-2] OpenSSH vulnerability [USN-612-3] OpenVPN vulnerability I can tell you these are really not funny. They really generate a lot of work indirectly. Annoying but doable are things like regeneration SSH keys. The PITA situation is with OpenVPN, [...]

I’m happy I hardened my webserver setup a bit and all our blogs are running on a seperate virtual machine but damn, wordpress is a pain to maintain. I updated it less then a year ago and I’m already hopelessly out of date! Also this time there are a whole lot of security updates of [...]

Last week I got my first look on Windows Vista. I guess they outdid themselves on making something horrible. The interface is freaking slow, lots of popups too. It looks much more like the Mac now btw, just in a more failed way. I sure hope Ubuntu doesn’t pursue something like Vista else you’ll find [...]

Since the Xen PV drivers for Windows only work on the commercial/closed source Xen versions I ended up doing a test run of Xen Express. Its a bit nasty as you can expect but its much better then I expected. The installation You boot up the Xen Express install disk, pass a simplified text based [...]

Nice start of my travel to canada. I wanted to check in online, but somehow the webshite couldn’t find my flight/booking. Gives you the “oh oh” feeling. Calling KLM…. it took the klm lady awhile but she found out that schiphol decided to cancel the flight and they booked my flight to one two hours [...]

We had a night of computer terror: A terrible badly supported intel mainbord (dg965ot). Basicly its chips are not supported in Linux and it just won’t boot. http://dev.osso.nl/peter/blog/2006/12/28/why-intel-dg965ot-sucks-balls/, nice specs, but just buy another board (at least for now). Besides that fedora core 6 x86_64 doesn’t seem to work well with software raid1, it sucks [...]

I gave up on akismet, it just doesn’t work properly in my setup. Fortunately spam is nagging so many people there is plenty of choice for plugins. Although I always found it pretty annoying to do something extra if I wanted to leave a comment: read some malformed letters in a image, guess what they [...]

Since it was overly simple for Kim Chee to get his akismet thing to work (it kept telling me invalid key) it was probably a difference between webhost. I am a lazy bastard but this had to be simple, after 10 seconds my suspicions were clear. mod_chroot! I absolutely love mod_chroot, I wouldn’t dare to [...]

662 comments marked as spam Update: after another two days with the double amount of spam I decided to disable comments. Another update: WordPress sucks, how can disable comments globally? I can only make it disabled by default for new articles in the option – discussion menu. That akismet sucks as well, in wordpress it [...]