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This is maybe the only april fool I saw yesterday I thought where a bit funny.

The first thing I have to say about this is keep your worpress up to date at all times! Skipping a release will not only make you vulnerable to hackers, but also make it more difficult to upgrade later. But this, of course is something you already know, lets see what we could do to make it easier to manage this.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a distribution system for wordpress?
Actually, you have! You can use Subversion to install wordpress, and upgrading later is as easy as just switching repositories, if you follow static versions, or svn update if you install from trunk.

This makes upgrades a 4 step procedure (you can cut it down to 2 if you like to live risky, or if you don’t use custom plugins):

• Disable all plugins
• run svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/
• go to your wp-admin, and update database (one click operation)
• Enable your plugins again

As mentioned, you may skip the first and the last point.

See wordpress.org for more info, on how to switch from a tarball installed wordpress to a svn-installed wordpress, or performing a fresh install from svn.

This time from 2.3.3 to 2.5 using subversion. It was dead easy! Though I find the user interface a bit confusing, I’m very happy to have found a way to keep the blog up-to-date in an easy way.

It is very cool to be able to manage photos and galleries inside wordpress too

From pycon08:

Other videos from PyCon08 can be found here

Via Thoughtfix: It seems like it is official, there will be a WiMAX version of the N810, and pretty soon too.

Those who wait for something good … and so on

update:

Not that it means anything for us here in Norway. I’m hoping for a HSDPA or CDMA edition.

WeSIP seems like an interesting project, or at least there might be built lots of interesting applications on top of it. WeSIP is for SIP what Jboss, Tomcat and others are for HTTP.

For the uninitiated, SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol, and is used to set up sessions for VoIP, games, IM and more. The SIP protocol is very similar to another successful protocol you might have heard of, http.

Today I noticed this in my access.log:

What goes on here?
All these requests fail, ofcourse, but in addition to the obvious (404), the client also doesnt supply a Host: header for their HTTP/1.1 requests

update

It is safe to assume that this is an attempt to hack me in some way, DFind is appearantly some kind of security scanner^ref. The same IPs are also bruteforcing some URLs (like /phpmyadmin etc..) looking for somthing fun to poke around with.

I took a picture of my new laptop the other day. It was then I saw how geeky my bookshelf was, containing these books:

• Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
• Learning XML
• Learning XSLT
• Python - how to program
• MySQL reference manual
• Programming Languages - concepts and constructs
• HTML 4.01 Specification
• Conputer Networks
• A history of modern computing
• A brief history of the future - The origins of the Internet
• Learning Java
• Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
• Designing with web standards
• On to Java
• Java network programming and distributed computing
• Windows ME annoyances
• Java som første programmeringsspråk
• Java software solutions
• Learning WML and WMLScript
• Human computer interaction

Here is just another geektest. The test is not mine, but I htmlized and phpized it

As you can see from my last post, I’m a little frustrated with printers today. Here’s the story why.

I had a paper on XML to deliver today. One digital copy via mail, and one that should be delivered on paper. The digital copy was no problem at all, just pack the files and send them to the right person. The paper copy on the other hand was not that easy to deliver. One thing is that I actually have to go to campus to deliver it, I cant understand why we have to deliver a paper copy, but I can live with that. The problem is; I have no printer. I have to rely on the Océ monster where I volunteerly work as an IT-admin.

Today this gray box from hell had broken down again. Last time it happened it took Océ over 10 days to reassemble the box to fix it. So I asked one of the people i share a flat with if I could borrow her printer. No problem. She borrowed me the printer. Then I had to install the printer. I have never installed a printer on Linux before and tried various approaches. This took time. Too much time. The paper had to be delivered at 13:00 and at 12:38 I was still home. I ran to the bus, I ran like hell…. I dont think I have ever ran that fast. I reached the bus, and got down to campus.

I started looking for a printer. I found one in the back corner of the HumInf lab on hf-bygget. I thought phew. The printer was out of paper, but there was a lot of copying paper in the room so I thought that wasnt a problem. I was wrong. Someone had assumed point 2 in Common mistakes about printers, If its out of paper, it will magically refill itself if you send enough copies of your docoment to it. It started spitting out dozens of papers, and would not stop. So I rebooted it, knowing that that would make a paper-jam, but I assumed it would be faster to fix than wait for all these copies. The paper-jam was severe, the paper was really stuck, but at last I got it out, and got my paper printed, and delivered it at 12:59:40

There are one thing worse than printers, and that is printers in a public place

I really have to work on my english…