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zencart security crapness
Today, I logged into one server to have a rummage and see if I could free up some disk space… on a whim I do an ‘ls’ of /tmp and find a file called ‘att1.txt’. Hmm. Lets take a look – ‘head att1.txt’ gave : #!/usr/bin/perl # ShellBOT # 0ldW0lf – oldwolf@atrix-team.org # …
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21
What a beautiful day. # Need more sleep. 4am is not wake up time toddler. And just leave me be while you play with Lego. /please/ # The dog has had bacon and mince for tea. I hope I eat as well. # Looks like the funky new car park crap at asda #bromsgrove is…
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Python script to backup mysql databases on Debian
Here’s a short python script I must have knocked up some time ago – and totally forgotten – hopefully it’ll be of some use to others…. Purpose: backup all MySQL databases, one in each file with a timestamp on the end. You’ll probably want to have a secondary cron job which does something like :…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14
Tcp over Dns seems a success – just slow, really slow. 33kbps old skopl slow. Hurry up bethere I want those 10mbps # And no real golf involved either in last tweet. Not sure I'll visit all the watering holes. Getting to 3 holes would make me happy. # Beer and running don't mix too…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07
Sweet. The now show is back. Good times. #nowshow #radio4 #BBC # Lovely run up Lickey hill; http://favoriterun.com/294345 – 7:45mins/mile; 12.57 miles. Now to eat breakfast and visit/annoy @carolinegoodwin # Congratulations Rowan. You've slept well. Don't rush to get up; I don't mind. When you do wake, we'll eventually go and have Lots of fun.…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07
Sweet. The now show is back. Good times. #nowshow #radio4 #BBC # Lovely run up Lickey hill; http://favoriterun.com/294345 – 7:45mins/mile; 12.57 miles. Now to eat breakfast and visit/annoy @carolinegoodwin # Congratulations Rowan. You've slept well. Don't rush to get up; I don't mind. When you do wake, we'll eventually go and have Lots of fun.…
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Trying to not delve into wordpress
I don’t normally do anything with WordPress from a work point of view – I’ve always left such work to ‘designer’ types… Anyway, yesterday I had a referral for someone who has two fairly busy websites (anorak.co.uk / whoateallthepies.tv) sat on a fairly beefy server (8 core, 16g of ram… oh in a few years that’ll…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28
Back from long run. Good but body now protesting; dog caused me to loose timings etc so no idea of time. http://favoriterun.com/302054 # RT @bromsgrove Winner of the best curry award named: spice valley, worcs rd. http://bit.ly/amuzbx <- I agree. # First ice cream van of the year just drove past, and now he's back…
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Random notes from installing postfixadmin 2.3 deb
Server: Debian Lenny Installed .deb from here # wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/files/postfixadmin/postfixadmin_2.3_all.deb/download …. # dpkg -i postfixadmin_2.3_all.deb … dpkg moans about missing dependencies Selecting previously deselected package postfixadmin.(Reading database … 38632 files and directories currently installed.)Unpacking postfixadmin (from postfixadmin_2.3_all.deb) …dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postfixadmin: postfixadmin depends on dbconfig-common; however: Package dbconfig-common is not installed. postfixadmin depends on wwwconfig-common;…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21
pondering a long run tomorrow – http://favoriterun.com/302054 – 19.3 miles. Hope the weather's ok. # UK Drivers – when on the motorway, if there is adequate space on your left, pull over and let those behind through. #fsckingBMWidiotontheM6 # All stop. M42….. # Only 8 hours in the car today. 'should' have been closer to…