The Kind Healer – Page 25 – A Gaming Ambassador from Uru

Bad Behavior v2.0 is out

For those who’ve not heard about this neat app, Bad Behavior is an anti-spambot plugin for WordPress and other PHP-based content systems. I’ve had it on this site for some time now and has worked well; The sister (Uru-IC) site also had it from its first day online. Its quite amazing, never had any issues with it, even from work (which I’m briefly doing this from right now).

Well, this week the 2.0 version made it out to release. I’ve already upgraded (which was relatively painless), and still going OK. This release is currently working seamlessly for WordPress 1.5 and above, and instructions for MediaWiki are also available. Other systems are to be supported as the author has time; It was pushed out a bit early in response to increasing spambot traffic.

I’d suggest anyone using WordPress to at least take a peek at it. Other PHP content systems (his list of known ports as well as notes to do your own porting here) could also be used; In fact I’m considering adding this to the little ‘sandbox’ subdomain I setup for testing things.

Info on the release here.

–TSK

Old Until Uru Pics

I’ve uploaded a bunch of old UU pics, including some from the 05 parade, as well as some from the xmas party the Guard did last winter.

Link here. Peruse and Enjoy.

Warning, the 05 parade pics are still in bmp, I was in a hurry to send them up and will probably convert them at some point.

:salute:
–TSK

Bugger

Note to self: No matter how minimal you set it, turn sounds off during important events.

Gah. Kicked out of tonight’s townhall presence (stack dump) and at that point work was calling.

I got a bunch of info anyway beforehand, which was enough to satisfy me for now. I’ll check summaries later, I had fun anyway.

–TSK

Fun With WordPress and Subdomains

Always a good time when you’ve never dealt with cPanel, subdomains, or the deep pitfalls of Fantastico before. :P

Anyway, started setup of a new WP site (T_S Journal), which will have a feed request to Uru Blogs once I’m ready for it.

Also, for those who actually visit, I’m swapping themes again. This one, blog.txt, is very clean (a nice qualifier in my case) and also supports the WordPress Widget format if I end up going in that direction (probably). I’ve already got an idea for one, though I may need to have a talk with Linden Lab. ;)

[EDIT – I actually needed the widget plugin loaded and enabled, so that I could get the sidebar similar to what I’m used to. Go figure. However, its much nicer to modify it, in particular from work. :) ]

–TSK

Irssi on NSLU2 Part 3 – DebianSlug – Working!

For those following this insane saga, I’ve now moved on to the Debian ARM install of Linux on the NSLU2 NAS unit. And now have both a stable working ‘slug’ and irssi with the perl module.

About time. Really!

Since this is a fully functional port of Linux, complete with packages, I’ve set aside *why* I was doing this in the first place to get a backup of this weblog running. Priorities. ;)

Actually, part of this is to learn web-based stuff that would be useful for work. Even though our Apache stuff is normally Solaris-based, the actual web-side stuff like CGIs are still the same.

Of course, I’ve still got to locate a semi-current screen-irssi config so I can get that back online properly too.

:link:

–TSK