Simple answer: use relative instead of absolute URLs for these two settings in config.php:
photoAlbumURL
albumDirURL
HTML in comments no longer allowed
As a provisional but hopefully effective additional measure against massive (24/7) comment blog spam any comments containing HTML links (<a href= etc.) will be trashed (just enter the URL instead). Thanks for your understanding.
Gallery: Solution to “Error: Unable to make thumbnail (0)”
If you’re experiencing the “Error: Unable to make thumbnail (0)” error in gallery, there’s a workaround:
Outblogged? Blogout?
..not yet, but almost ;) I need to find another anti-spam solution as by now, way too many comment spam postings pass MTB. And even those that don’t pass seem to confuse MT and leave my latest comments/pings list in a mess.
Promising candidate: SCode
Or should I write my own anti-spam plugin for MT? :)
Get Firefox!
I use Mozilla Firefox for quite a while now and I am very happy with it. It’s high time to spread the word:
It’s probably the last chance for you to claim you were already using Firefox before its official release (1.0) ;)
Experimental GPG support in stable portage
Gentoo Linux Newsletter — October 25, 2004
Experimental support for GPG verification: Not completely implemented yet, but a new FEATURES variable gpg in /etc/make.conf that can be set to different levels of strictness will allow checks of the GPG signatures in newer Manifest files.
Sounding familiar? ;)
New feed added to blogroll
Just added Moritz’ blog to my blogroll :) I’m looking forward to trying his gmailfs ebuild for Gentoo as soon as possible :) (Unfortunately, I’ll be very busy for the next two weeks though)
Secure MTB’s e-mail notification de-spamming feature
A blog-spam notification e-mail sent by MT-Blacklist conveniently contains a link to de-spam the according comment. Unfortunately, all URLs start with “http://”, meaning that the request (and hence your credentials) are sent as plain-text. To force using HTTPS (encrypted HTTP) for anything related to MT-Blacklist, you can add the following line to your Apache configuration (this is an example, adjust it to match your server layout):
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.6:80> # other redirects here Redirect permanent /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Blacklist https://news.numlock.ch/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Blacklist </VirtualHost>
and restart Apache (for Apache2 on Gentoo: “/etc/init.d/apache2 restart”)
System Restore for Windows XP
I’m currently trying to delete old system restore points in order to eventually solve the context menu sluggishness on my Toshiba Portégé M200.
Here’s a nice site summarizing the features of Windows XP system restore:
Last but not least: GMail and GMailFS
Addendum: Opened a GMail account a couple of weeks ago (thanks to Moritz for the invite – pretty clever marketing on behalf of Google, BTW :) My add is mettlerd@.
Note: Please do not send any mails to that account yet as first I’ll have to define what I will use it for.. actually, I have an account with much more free space already (read: my private own mail server ;)
[*LOL*. Addendum to the addendum: Forgot to mention – The reason for posting this entry was actually the fact that Moritz made Gentoo ebuilds for GMailFS . Unfortunately, the Gentoo policy regarding libgmail/GMailFS ebuilds is very strict.]