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System Status via RSS
This status page now gets its data via RSS feeds from the new company blog. It is also now divided into “system status” and “what’s new”, both can be subscribed via RSS into your favorite RSS reader.
easyWhois turing guard restored
The turing test for easywhois has been restored. The problem was a conflict in the graphics libs between a new web analyzer package and the turing image generator.
easyWhois Turing number broken
The “turing number” guard on easywhois broke in a recent library upgrade. It has been temporarily disabled until the problem is rectified.
Blog move
We’ve just moved the blog from a hosted service to the serendipity platform. While there are advantages on both sides of the coin (hosted blogs vs. run-your-own) it looks like serendipity has some features we were looking for: individual RSS feeds for each category various exporting options including RSS, XML and Atom Search Engine Friendly […]
Widespread PHP vulnerability in XML-RPC
I didn’t bother mentioning the new PHP XML-RPC vulnerability to somebody yesterday, assuming they already knew. Alas, they got burned by it so I’m making it a point to mention these things in a widespread generic sense from now on. As such: if you are running PHP content management systems like blogs, postnuke or anything […]
