planetOzh

Code 2007/06/13 1 min read

Overkill Method to Kill Spam #71

Every time I check my referrers, I cannot help but notice all those utterly futile referrer spams from various order-your-pills-online sites. And each time I start thinking about various method to block them all (then I never implement these methods because I mostly don't care about refer spam :) I checked a couple hundreds of referrer domains and, unsurprisingly, about…

WordPress 2007/05/31 1 min read

WordPress Troubles ? Clean the Cache !

You may have seen a nasty Error 500 for the past two or three hours here, and this is the second time I've had this kind of trouble. Site up, MySQL up, stuff looking OK, except that everything related to WordPress, including the admin area, dies returning an error. It turned out that the culprit was… WordPress' Cache. Apparently, there…

Code 2007/05/01 2 min read

Some Fun with Script Kiddies

One of the things you have to pay attention to when you move your website to another host is correct redirection to pages, and ensuring you're not giving 404 errors to legitimate requests. This morning I was checking my error logs and noticed a lot of pathetic attempts from script kiddies looking for an easy security hole to exploit :…

WordPress 2007/01/12 1 min read

Hosting hiccups …

Sorry for the frequent down time these past few days. The apache and mysql daemons are randomly dying, my sysadmin suspects that someone is triggering some bug or exploit somewhere but he cannot hunt this sucker down. As soon as I find an ounce of courage and a few spare hours, I think I'll eventually move my WordPress blog to…

sux0rz 2006/12/29 1 min read

Les AmÃ©ricains Sont des CrÃ©tins, Episode 43

Quel âge a le Grand Canyon ? A cette simple question, les employés du Parc National du Grand Canyon ne sont plus autorisés Ã répondre. Pour ne pas heurter les théories créationnistes qui racontent que le Grand Canyon a été créé par le Déluge (Noé, tout ça…), l'administration Bush a ordonné d'adopter une attitude "géologiquement agnostique", et de ne simplement…

My Life 2006/12/19 1 min read

Hell Is …

I'm not sure about what could heaven be, but I'm pretty sure about hell now. Right now, the closest thing to hell has to be : being on sick days that stick you at home while your wife's parents are at your home for the same week What a greaaat week.

Oops ! Sorry for the downtime of my blog (and subsequent interruption of service for planet WordPress). I have a nice sysadmin who just forgot to reboot hardware after doing some maintenance and then left for an extended week-end :)

2006/11/21 21h33 #

Gasp. I wanted to get vers.us a few hours earlier when it became available, but some lucky bastard got it first. Too bad. Back to my offline stuff.

2006/07/09 23h42 #

Web 2006/06/20 1 min read

Sorry. Your screen name is already taken !

Arrrrrgh. There's two thing I hate when registering with a new website or service. First one is when they ask for logins longer than 3 letters. When I'd like to keep things simple and use the same 'Ozh' as a login across a thousand websites, I end up registering (and forgetting) gazillions of ozhy, ozhozh, ozh1, ozhozhozh, MrOzh and such…

Last.fm's player really badly needs an extra feature : a "ban this artist" button, right next to "ban this track". Like, it makes sense I have to click every time on this button every time I hear Moby in the "Similar to Metallica" station. Moby, damnit. What the hell does it have to do with Metallica ?

2006/04/17 23h59 #