I don’t know how many know, but one of my sidelines (hobbies) over the years has been Genealogy. Sometimes I’ve had more time for it than others. The last couple of years it hasn’t been something I’ve had much time for. However, the archives of two sites exist at this domain. The first www.northcarolinagenealogy.net has not seen a makeover in a LONG time. In fact, the second archive was meant to be the next revision of northcarolinagenealogy.net it is located here This second one will likely be changing soon as I look at converting it to the model I’ve used for the main site. (more…)
Author: Avery
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Old posts
I’ve copied over several of the older posts from the ezcontents layout of the site. I think I’ll skip moving the “virus of the moment, watch out for….” posts. The ones that I’ve chosen are a bit more generic and can relate to many viruses (The connection between spam and viruses for instance is as relevant today as it was when I first posted from all I can see…) The bugbear virus on the other hand, hopefully, is probably not relevant these days.
For all the older posts I’ve tried to import them and preserve their original post date so as not to disrupt the flow of more current content. There is one recent post that I haven’t migrated on a recent site outage (due to the move of averyjparker.com to a new server which left mysql clueless until I figured out what it was missing.) I also hope to share the reason for a more recent outage (July 14-15th) in a few more days once all this is settled.
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New site layout
Well, after spending a couple days looking at WordPress, I’ve now promoted it to be the main site layout. This software offers several improvements over what I’ve been using and if you are interested in running a blog site, or even a small managed site with the ability to do easy frequent updates, this might be a great choice for you.
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Wow
This is an interesting moment… since last night I’ve been tinkering with wordpress. I’ve got it installed in a test directory. This afternoon I spent some time moving old posts over to wordpress from my old portal. I’ve got several plugins installed and I look at the stats plugin I setup earlier this afternoon. I only expected to see my visits there (and my Dad’s, and maybe my brothers, I’d sent them links), other than those, I didn’t expect any visits because, well it wasn’t linked from anywhere else on my site. Apparently the power of “ping” is greater than I thought as it seems I’ve got hits from a few sites and on looking, one of my posts is already in the IceRocket blog search
Yikes (more…)
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Windows RDP Denial of service vulnerability
I just saw this article at zdnet news a few minutes ago. Basically a new security bulletin is out with regards to Windows Remote Desktop Server being vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack. Essentially it affects Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003. It appears that under an overwhelming flood of requests the system could blue screen. This vulnerability though, I think points out a flaw in the software firewall of XP (more…)
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RSS feeds
Of course, it appears that wordpress comes with support to generate rss feeds for the articles and comments listed here. I was curious to find a way to include a syndicated news feed in the site and have. So, for the main page we have Yahoo news top stories (at least for now.) At some point I may look to putting other feeds on other pages, hopefully somewhat related to the content.
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Crossroads
At this point, I doubt anyone is seeing this as the wordpress test install is not live to the public yet, but… I’m opening this one up for comments. On the old site, I had accumulated a bit of content along the lines of windows/linux tips, software recommendations and tech support tips. Most of it is stuff at this point that I’m not eager to just copy over. At some point I may include those, but looking back I see nothing that seems like a vast unknown resource.
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Migration to new CMS
As you can see I’m in the midst of a migration to a new CMS tool. Right now I’m using wordpress which is normally considered a blogging tool. Frankly, I was reluctant to look at a blogging tool in part because the concept has such a trendy feel to it. Truth be told, technically the way I’ve envisioned (and at times implemented) updates to my sites have been in the style that these days is not too far from blogging. At this point I’m fairly impressed with wordpress. If you’re interested in learning more, there is likely a link at the bottom of the page, or you could try this link www.wordpress.org
Old content will be migrated from the old layout and at somepoint this new portal will likely be made active.
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Considerate Computing
This may cover a fair amount of ground, but here goes….
Today I was looking at a system to see just what software was in use, evaluating the possibility of linux as a replacement. Office, of course was a must (at least the ability to read .doc and .xls files.) This is something that can now be done a number of ways with linux, Kword, Abiword, Openoffice.org, Gnumeric, Kspread all come to mind, as well as Microsoft Office running on Crossover Office. Frankly, I wasn’t too concerned about that. Publisher is another story, but on the linux side, I’ve tried Scribus as a replacement and it’s a maybe. It seems Kword has some of the flexibility of a desktop publishing program, but I may have to look further there. What caught my eye and prompted this update was a peculiar little file on the desktop. It was titled something related to a lease. I rightclicked to get more info. It was an executable file (.exe) I opened it. It was a viewer for a lease form which had been emailed. The building owner had appearantly emailed it in this format to the business owner.
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The basics
Well to start out, this might should be crosslinked in the computer security section, but I’m putting it in commentary primarily to catch those who might not typically look at computer security.