Hmm, I really should cleanup this blog..
It’s looking pretty sad at the moment. :-/ It’s because I haven’t fully recovered pics.tnir.org, so there are missing graphics here and there. Maybe I will just use a pre-canned theme so that it looks ok or something. My main problem is that I turn off Wordpress’ “translate returns intotags” auto-filter, which isn’t a setting. I have to hand-edit the PHP code every time.
gmone.com
I own the gmone.org domain, so about 2 months ago I started getting spam from several domain-selling companies that they would reserve “gmone.com” for me when it expired for a fee. That fee was pretty high.. at first. As time went by, the price fell lower and lower. When the domain actually expired, I logged in to my Dreamhost account and bought the domain at the regular cost. A rare instance of spam actually providing a service—in this instance, as a calendar-ish reminder alarm.
P.S. Luisa, this is the domain i was thinking of, not tnir.com (which I don’t think will ever be available)
Back to Disqus again
I’m switching ReidNews back over to using Disqus now. It’s worked really well on Tech Tok. This gets rid of the headache of de-spamming comments. I just sucked all my old comments into Disqus and its “processing” right now. So for a little while all my old comments are hidden. I think.Google banned rae.tnir.org
Well, I think it’s more of a combination of Google and Firefox. My site was hacked via a Wordpress exploit. I’ve updated to the latest (I was at 2.5, now at 2.6.1), which should fix the issue. I’ve applied to Google to get rae.tnir.org re-evaluated. But their form for re-evaluation says it will take “several weeks”! So until then, my site will be red-eye-banned by all Firefox users. Ye gods. 2008-09-18 13:05 Update:Found out that Google is in cahoots with stopbadware.org, and applied to them to get my blog reviewed. Their turnaround was significantly faster than that of Google (which hasn’t done anything yet). I got this email reply from them a day or two after I asked them for a review:
We have received and processed your request for review of your website, rae.tnir.org/. Google’s most recent test of your website found no badware behaviors on the site. As such, the Google warning page for your site has either already been removed or should be removed shortly. In addition, if your site has been listed in our Badware Website Clearinghouse, we will remove your site from the Clearinghouse list. Sometimes website owners are confused about why Google placed a warning in the search results for their site. In many cases, a website run by an innocent site owner has been hacked by a malicious third party, causing the site to distribute badware without the site owner’s knowledge. If your site was distributing badware because it has been hacked, then simply removing the bad code from your site is not enough to keep your site clean in the future. You will also need to work with your hosting provider to fix all security vulnerabilities associated with your site. Please note that we will be retesting your website at periodic intervals in order to monitor that it remains free from badware. If we find that you are hosting or distributing badware in the future, the reviews process may take considerably longer than the original review. Answers to commonly asked questions from site owners who are the subject of Google warnings can be found at: http://stopbadware.org/home/faq#partnerwarnings For tips on keeping your website clean and secure, please visit: http://stopbadware.org/home/security The StopBadware TeamSo with any luck, this blog will be out from under Googles Red Screen of Death sometime soon.
Ow
I did something to my leg. No idea how. Maybe the long-ish bike rider over the weekend? Whatever the reason, it’s now hard to walk. I may have to take time off work to let it heal, or something. Sat around all weekend at Tony’s cottage up near Minden feeling about as useful as a doorstop. Managed to get 2/3 of the way through “The Bourne Identity” though. The book is very different from the movie. And still good! I was amazed that I actually managed to get an EDGE internet connection up there. Ronnie starts D&D camp at the ROM today. He’s loaded to bear with his Warcraft III Monster Manual and bag o’ dice (my bag o’ dice, actually).Apple TV Hacking: success!
Posted by rae in Reid, entertainment, hardware, homeowner, software
at 2:11 am on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
at 2:11 am on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
I managed to get ssh working at last.
And then I tried to
enable USB storage,
but that was a mistake.
I thought it meant I could plug in a USB drive and the Apple TV would play content off of it.
But no, it meant rebuilding the kernel so that any USB drive plugged in to the Apple TV would have its main disk copied to it.
The idea is that this external, much larger disk will be the new boot volume.
But that’s not what I wanted at all.
So the Apple TV got stuck, so .. I reset to factory settings (that’s a brilliant option, btw).
So, I know I can do it now.
The scripts “out there” are pretty rough and tumble.
I’m thinking I may create a Mac OS X 10.4.9 partition on my Mac Pro, just so that I can copy over all the missing frameworks and libraries so that I can get things like wget to work..
Apple TV
I just popped out to the
Apple Store in the Eaton Centre
and bought myself an
Apple TV (take two).
I got the smaller model since Apple charges over $100 for 120 GB more storage.
For $143 I can get a 210 GB more storage
from Canada Computers.
Many thanks to Iain, who pointed me at
appletvhacks.net.
It needs to be hacked, to add support for other codecs like DivX, XviD, and mkv (Merikovian? Merovincian?)
Chandler layoffs
Alias get-together, and music
Lisa, me, Bob, Tom and Moira
Then today I ran across a haunting song that I’m sure I’ve heard before and like very, very much:
It’s CC licensed, which is cool, and probably why I’ve heard it before. I think it was used as the soundtrack to a YouTube video or something similar that I saw.
BGG Con
BoardGameGeek Con!