Looks pretty nice, actually ... All I had to do was enable XML-RPC in Wordpress (here's the dinner bell noise, hackers come and get it).  Hopefully Wordpress is relatively secure in it's XML-RPC implementation.Neat stuff, though.  This is why I love open source; I'm doing this all for 100% free and on a standards based application.  :D

Those who have experienced the growing pains of a small company know how it can all go wrong. When an organization grows, certain intangible benefits are bound to be lost. Many times at small companies I heard the stories of "how it used to be". Transformations are never painless, and the edict is generally "adapt or get out". Though perhaps it's not such a sharply worded message, it's even more ...

I had a hell of a time using the NFS options on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS, mostly because of the lack of documentation from Seagate regarding the options necessary to actually use the damn thing as an NFS share. In my mount options, I kept getting the error:
"Connecting to NAS volume:
Unable to connect to NAS volume : NFS Error: Unable to Mount filesystem: The mount request was denied by ...

When I first saw the new fancy colors for the grep command in Linux in Fedora 15 I was happy to see they added colorizing for grep results. It seems to work fine on my Fedora system, but I saw some weird behavior on a CentOS 5.7 system.

I finally narrowed it down to /etc/skel/.bash_profile, which includes the line:

Line 16:
export GREP_OPTIONS=\'--color=auto\'

This file gets ...

Today we had a problem after enabling client certificate authentication in JBoss 4.2.3. At first, I googled the problem and found that a potential JBoss speedup was to specify a different SSLRandomSeed option to point to /dev/urandom instead of the default "builtin". Basically since the SSL parts were using /dev/random, which depended on entropy to generate "uniquely random" output. By pointing to /dev/urandom, which weren't blocked by a ...

This didn't happen to me personally, it was story I read from a reddit post. I can't account for it's truth, but I can say that it made my eyes water for a second (no tears fell, though, so it's okay). :P

Touching story, either way.

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Just experienced something that shook me to the core and I can't explain why but it did as I'm known to the people ...

Today I noticed a message on my Facebook page. I've been using Facebook since the early days of college beta, and the various notifications through the years about changing this feature or that feature have left me largely uninterested. But, the below kind of annoys me. I can understand that maybe not a whole lot of people use the Wordpress to Facebook publishing features. I, for one, find it incredibly ...

I'm always pretty excited about a new Fedora release. Yesterday, Fedora 16 was released, and of course I decided to go grab it. This morning, I popped the DVD in and started the install process.
First problem
The installer tries to activate all of your screens. I have dual monitors setup with my laptop open, and all three screens cannot be activated all at once. So when anaconda (the installer) tried ...

Thanks to Michael Hall, who wrote a very funny article titled "If Linux was a car (Hater's edition)" as a follow up to the almost comical ZDNet article by David Gewirtz titled "Why I've finally had it with my Linux server and I'm moving back to Windows".

In the comments I've noticed the author doesn't mind republishing with source, so here is the full story:

There have been several humorous ...

Back in June I had a problem with my Maximo headset I purchased in January (see here). It seems these things have a 5-6 month use cycle, as just today I noticed the same thing that happened in June happened now: the glue separated and the wires in the earpiece are exposed again.

Let's see how long it takes Maximo Support to get me a new pair this time ...

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