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the progression of the internet is funny

Erin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:27:12 +0000

Benny just published a post on her site about WP and caching. It makes me chuckle to think about, because essentially the web has come full-circle.
The web was first populated by sites that were all static html pages.
Then, someone thought of using databases and a whole bunch of other neat things to make websites “dynamic” – meaning, you didn’t have to spend hours tediously re-writing static html to make a change across your whole site.
Then, these dynamic sites were great, but if the site was popular, then you needed to back it up with a shit-ton of hardware and load balancing and etc, etc in case you had a lot of visitors.
Now, caching (turning the dynamic site back into simple static html) keeps sites light and serving to millions of visitors.
Strange, innit?

WordPress for Blackberry

Erin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:00:06 +0000

Just installed the new WordPress app on my Blackberry. This should prove to be fun. Already found at least 1 problem, not all of my ‘Pages’ show up in the page list. Seems like it picked 5 random ones out … Continue reading →

Longing for a simpler time.

Erin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:18:31 +0000

Remember when all websites were just text and hyperlinks and maybe a few images? Now everybody has to have some crazy php-based content management system application (yeah, yeah, pot-kettle-black, I know). Working in the webhosting industry and specifically, in Security, has really made me long for those simpler times again. Sure, editing html is tedious and time-consuming, but its pretty rock-solid safe once its web-accessible. Nobody can exploit flaws in your plain html code to send spam, upload phishing sites, or kill other webservers.

So much for the weather.

Erin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:06:56 +0000

I managed to bring in the bubble wrap roll from my car today and that was it. Apparently its supposed to rain all weekend.

In other news, the site was down this morning. That was because, like a dumbass, I didn’t bother to check my GoDaddy account to see if the CC they were going to bill for auto-renew was a good one. Of course, it wasn’t. I needed to update my address too, and I went ahead and renewed the 4 other domains I have that were going to expire soon. So, a $10 renewal got turned into a $94 renewal. Argh.

Security Improvements

Erin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:07:57 +0000

Now that I’m on the Secteam at LW, its obviously got me thinking harder about implementing better security measures on this VPS. One thing I’ve already done is install CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall, available at http://configserver.com), and set LFD (the login failure daemon) to send me emails about detected security issues.

I also have Apache2/ModSecurity2 (with our latest ruleset), however I’m finding that I probably need to make a few other adjustments, such as enabling SuPhp and open_basedir, locking down permissions, and most importantly, keeping up with new versions of software (omg, WordPress 2.6.2 already?!).Â These things I hope to accomplish very, very soon.

Urgente warn for the system admins

Erin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:16:07 +0000

Do not give the eating for monkeys in the datacenter area
Do not bring any eating and any plastic bags come in the datacenter, is that the monkeys will attack to you and make you danger.
Do not provoke the monkeys, is that it will bite you
Please to intensive care your servants if they fallen, do not carry and food and toys, and do not away from fallen servants
The monkeys are not afraid anyone please do not interact with them it so very danger!!

Notice – If have accident from monkeys, the datacenter can not invoke to you.

You salute!

Don’t mess with Sev.

Erin — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:21:00 +0000

When I was working at Meijer, I had a 30 minute conversation with a lady about worcestershire sauce
that is awesome
It was her life story pertaining to worcestershire sauce, and how her husband was an idiot for getting mustard instead
When I was shipping at Meijer, I poured worchestershire sause on an old lady, then had to be detained for 30 minutes
or she’d kill you?
apparently some of my actions were considered “illegal” or some rubbish
the peace. you can’t disturb it.
Severin: As long as you didn’t get anything on the floors, Meijer wouldn’t care
Severin – did you get yourself banned from Meijer or something? rofl….
I poured steak sause all of an old lady
I mistook her for another one that took my parking spot
I’ve seen that parking spot, btw
It has a picture of an A-1 bottle tipped at a 45 degree angle
Meijer: higher standards, more steaksauce
My personal parking spot at meijer has this :Â Â Â
the only bad thing, is that spot is at best buy
i think they want me to die crossing traffic
do, i usually park in severin’s spot
s0*
* andy wants nothing at all to do with severin’s “spot”

I been detroited.

Erin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:38:43 +0000

Should I get this? It would be funny

History/Definition of “detroited”: A customer wrote in saying that we had ‘detroited’ (read: destroyed) their business.Â So now anytime something is broken beyond repair we say its been ‘detroited.’

Ten Randomly Generated Hostnames

Erin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:01:30 +0000

cPanel is funny. One of our setups guys pointed this out and I had to check on my own vps.

approached.aqxenterprises.com
acoup.aqxenterprises.com
bewpers.aqxenterprises.com
cedrate.aqxenterprises.com
charge-a-plate.aqxenterprises.com
bistournage.aqxenterprises.com
barrulee.aqxenterprises.com
-blast.aqxenterprises.com
atweel.aqxenterprises.com
approached.aqxenterprises.com

Also, one of the others he found was ‘antisemitic.hostname’ – Carl said use this to fix it

/scripts/fixracism --force

Digg is evil.

Erin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:44:27 +0000

And vile. Don’t ever digg anything, if you do you’re making a sysadmin somewhere cry. Or possibly more.