Have you heard of the T-Mobile Sidekick? The Sidekick is now dead. From what I’m reading, everyone– yes, everyone– who uses a Sidekick was affected by a network outage that began on October 2nd. Some people reset their devices or removed the batteries, and this causes them to lose all their data. That’s horrendous right…Continue Reading…
I’m here at BigSeminar X in Atlanta with Armand Morin, and he just launched his web hosting company, Hostorix. It looks pretty compelling: the promise of no downtime, CPanel with all the features– including Fantastico, and unlimited domains and databases, for the rather reasonable price of $27 per month. It’s not right for me because…Continue Reading…
As a Firefox Campus Rep, I get a box of Firefox goodies to use while promoting Firefox on the USC campus. A few days ago, I received a box for this year. It contains a book called Firefox for Dummies, by Blake Ross. I have to be honest. I’ve always been a little hesitant to…Continue Reading…
Here’s an interesting blog post about a website which was hacked to distribute malware. This has also happened to me on my sites, and it’s a really insidious problem. More and more websites on the internet are dynamic. This typically means that they’re user collaborative. Social sites like Facebook and others are quickly expanding and…Continue Reading…
Someone somehow modified some downloads of WordPress 2.1.1, so Matt announced that they’re calling the entire version dangerous. I used to wonder why the 2.0 branch is still maintained at all, considering that 2.1 is out. Perhaps this is part of the reason. The story behind this exploit is rather interesting. This morning we received…Continue Reading…
Is there any way to mass-edit these three fields for all forums? Default View Age (Default date cut-off for thread display) Default Sort Field Default Sort Order I’m manually going through and applying literally the exact same settings to every forum. I feel like I’m back in the stone ages when all things had to…Continue Reading…