I’ve updated the blog to Wordpress 2.6.2 tonight. There are some relatively serious security concerns with some of the code in Wordpress 2.6.1, so I’d recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience.
Slide on over to the Wordpress site and download it now.
I spoke with a customer last week who was curious about enabling encrypted partitions on a DAS connected to their server. I wasn’t entirely sure if it was possible in RHEL 5 since I couldn’t remember if it was available in Fedora 6. According to Red Hat’s release notes, it is possible. Here’s an excerpt [...]
Nessus is one of those applications that makes me happy and drives me crazy at the same time. It does what I need it to, but it’s often hard to get it rolling when it needs to do something for me. When I run it, I run it in batch mode, which requires [...]
MySQL has quite a few cryptic error messages, and this one is one of the best:
mysql> DROP USER ‘forums’@'db1.myserver.com’;
ERROR 1268 (HY000): Can’t drop one or more of the requested users
Naturally, I was quite interested to know why MySQL wasn’t going to allow me to remove this user. There was nothing special about the user, [...]
UPDATE: The TRACE/TRACK methods are disabled in Plesk 8.4 right out of the box!
It’s always been a bit of a challenge to disable TRACE and TRACK methods with Plesk. The only available options were to create a ton of vhost.conf files or adjust the httpd.include files and prevent modifications with chattr (which is a [...]