Common Sense Guide to Apache Security One of the beautiful things about unix is that to it, everything is a file- including you. What this means is that you can use the tar (tape archive) program to create a file on disk that you can then FTP to another server. Using an FTP client to […]
Getting there. I’ve got multiple blogs on a single index file, and a way to redirect anything except permalinks on Blog*Spot that don’t point to /?/filename.html#number (don’t quite know where the #fragment goes during the redirect from archives/filename to ?/filename, but it sure doesn’t go anywhere JavaScript can find it). All that’s left is to […]
Behind the website: Blogger : for my external memory.
EVHEAD!: How the Trellix Deal Happened — and What It Means
Status.Blogger.Com : “Fixed the FTP log page, so it displays the date of the file again.” Woo hoo! A minor thing, but oh so annoying when you couldn’t tell whether you still had the same problem, or whether Blogger just wasn’t generating a new log page. Thanks, Ev.
Sheesh. This is taking way too long. I think I’ve got a system for running all my blogs off a single index file, so if it works out, I’ll start to move them over.
The MeFi thread (where, inter alia, Meg complains about Blogger preventing anyone from starting a for-pay blogging system), and the voice of experience, Marcus commenting on commenting. Blogger desperately needs some simpler way of adding comments. Using Blogtracker, I get to see all the ex-Blogger users making their first Movable Type post, saying “Oh boy, […]
Things that make you say “hmmm”: Blogger is overloaded. Bandwidth is a problem, server load is a problem. Yet, when you edit a post that isn’t in your most recent archive file, Blogger publishes your (unchanged) most recent archive file, and to get the older archive file changed, you go to ‘Archives -> republish all” […]
Blogger’s inability to leave && in JavaScript alone annoys yet another person.
The Geek Syndrome : when Aspergers get rich enough to breed.