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Off-topic / Re: Strange behavior from WAMP server...
« on April 15th, 2011, 12:28 AM »
That's definitely odd but I have seen cases where Apache does fail, badly, under Windows and fails like that.
Interestingly, I've never hit it in almost 10 years of running an Apache instance locally, but I've only once done so with WampServer and that was a hideous experience, I gave up after 15 minutes of prodding it.
I always run with the official distribution, and have always done so for Apache, PHP and MySQL, and it's never let me down yet.
Interestingly, I've never hit it in almost 10 years of running an Apache instance locally, but I've only once done so with WampServer and that was a hideous experience, I gave up after 15 minutes of prodding it.
I always run with the official distribution, and have always done so for Apache, PHP and MySQL, and it's never let me down yet.
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Other software / Re: So, I've been asked...
« on April 14th, 2011, 10:34 PM »
Childishness has a place, and a time. Here are now are neither.
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Off-topic / Re: Spambots
« on April 14th, 2011, 09:50 PM »
And if you make it dependent on JS, any device that can't use JS is excluded which rules out some smartphones.
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Off-topic / Re: Why the hell has no-one thought of this before?
« on April 14th, 2011, 07:24 PM »Shakespeare, decent writing? "Wherefore art thou my Romeo"? It's not even proper English!!!! :niark:
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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on April 14th, 2011, 01:22 PM »This is friendly spam, not the kind of retarded forum spam...
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Off-topic / Re: And so...
« on April 14th, 2011, 12:52 AM »
Let's see. SMF 1.1 has had 13 post-final patches, which are all security related. That's in 5 years.
Just take a look through http://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/ and see how many of the patches were security related.
To be fair, even with SMF 2.0's long life cycle, the team were pretty prompt about getting security patches out. There are vulnerabilities in RC2 (patchwise, equivalent to 1.1.11), some in RC3/4 (equivalent to 1.1.13), and let's not forget the vulns that were fixed as 2.0 RC1-1 and 2.0 RC1.2 (1.1.9 and 1.1.10 respectively)
I still say SMF and by proxy Wedge have a better track record of security that WP does. And before anyone gives me the crap of 'it's a bigger target', WP is a simpler application than SMF is, so by definition it should be safer - and yet...
Just take a look through http://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/ and see how many of the patches were security related.
To be fair, even with SMF 2.0's long life cycle, the team were pretty prompt about getting security patches out. There are vulnerabilities in RC2 (patchwise, equivalent to 1.1.11), some in RC3/4 (equivalent to 1.1.13), and let's not forget the vulns that were fixed as 2.0 RC1-1 and 2.0 RC1.2 (1.1.9 and 1.1.10 respectively)
I still say SMF and by proxy Wedge have a better track record of security that WP does. And before anyone gives me the crap of 'it's a bigger target', WP is a simpler application than SMF is, so by definition it should be safer - and yet...
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Off-topic / Re: YouTube using short links?
« on April 14th, 2011, 12:36 AM »
Meh, I couldn't remember that syntax.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/13/wordpress_hack_attack/
WordPress is beginning to demonstrate its level of vulnerability... I think there may be some ground here :niark:
WordPress is beginning to demonstrate its level of vulnerability... I think there may be some ground here :niark:
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Off-topic / Why the hell has no-one thought of this before?
« on April 14th, 2011, 12:25 AM »
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/huskyjackaltheater/terminator-the-second
If you can't be bothered to read the link or watch the video, I'll sum it up.
Take Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Remove all original dialogue. Substitute in dialogue from Shakespeare that still tells the story.
Serve and enjoy.
Seriously, this is going to be epic.
If you can't be bothered to read the link or watch the video, I'll sum it up.
Take Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Remove all original dialogue. Substitute in dialogue from Shakespeare that still tells the story.
Serve and enjoy.
Seriously, this is going to be epic.
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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on April 13th, 2011, 10:53 PM »
Yeah, we let a couple of hardcore spammers here...
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Off-topic / Re: Texasmans Programming Blog
« on April 13th, 2011, 09:39 PM »
Wasn't me. Moderation log is a wonderful thing, as are open moderator reports ;)