A List Apart is probably one of my favorite sites about web design. Their 2008 survey of web professionals is running now.
Having stated the problem and now played further, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that there’s an action hook, ‘set_auth_cookie’, that gets called whenever the cookies are set, so if the stuff for which you want to authenticate is on the same server but at a different path, you can [...]
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Posted 29 July 2008
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Tagged: 2.6, action hook, add_action, admin_cookie_path, authentication, auth_redirect, cookie, cookie path, cookie paths, cookies, do_action, hook, plugin, plugin api, security, set_auth_cookie, user, user authentication, user login, wordpress, wordpress 2.6, wp, wp2.6
I’ve been hoping for the last hour or two that there’d be just one post on this topic, giving the problem and solution all together, but I have yet to solve it and so I’m just going to post the issue for now, until I have a solution. As a security measure in WP2.6, login [...]
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Posted 29 July 2008
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Tagged: 2.6, admin_cookie_path, authentication, auth_redirect, cookie, cookie path, cookie paths, cookies, security, user, user authentication, user login, wordpress, wordpress 2.6, wp, wp2.6
For many years now, I’ve used WorldWideDNS.net for the bulk of my DNS hosting. On Monday, they suffered a massive DDoS attack, taking out pretty much everything and making a few of my domains (including 2718.us) unavailable. Now, personally, I consider this sort of attack and outtage at a service provider to be an inevitability, [...]
I have spent a large chunk of the past two weekends trying to find some kind of instructions as to how to get audio into the native Asterisk “SLN” format. Specifically, I wanted to convert some mp3s of classical music (such as from Musopen) to SLN for music-on-hold. I was able to discern that SLN [...]
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Posted 21 July 2008
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Tagged: 16-bit pcm, 16-bit signed little-endian pcm, asterisk, asterisk native, asterisk sounds, audacity, big endian, endianness, ffmpeg, little endian, moh, mp3, music, music on hold, pcm, pcm_s16le, s16le, signed linear, sln, sox, wav
I’ve been fiddling around with Asterisk on a slug box. It’s working pretty well, but since I don’t want to deal with compiling things for the slug, I’m limited to the Asterisk modules that are available as binaries (not many). I’m also using the older Asterisk 1.2. This has led to some interesting hacks to [...]
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Posted 20 July 2008
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Tagged: asterisk, asterisk dialplan, dial plan, dialplan, nslu2, sed, sh, shell script, slug, weather, yahoo, yahoo weather
Since I’m on my second of what will probably be 4 or 5 unslung NSLU2 “slug” units (with identical 1GB flash drives from eBay), I figured it was time to write down specific step-by-step directions, if perhaps only for my own use later. (As an aside, having the two ethernet ports on my Mac Pro [...]
I use WordPress as the backbone of a site I run, including using it for user authentication. This means a lot of people who aren’t invovled in running the site are logging in and could see the dashboard. Now, it’s not that there’s anything really secret there, but it makes things look a lot less [...]
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Posted 10 July 2008
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Tagged: dashboard, deepwave, hide, hide dashboard, hide dashboard plugin, integration, plugin, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wp, wp plugin
I’ve had yet another why-didn’t-anyone-tell-me-sooner moment–child themes in WordPress. From How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades (via Parent Child Themes and How I used a WordPress Child Theme To Redesign My Blog The Smart Way): Problem: You’ve finally found a theme you like but you want to modify it. The modifications are pretty [...]
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Posted 03 July 2008
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Tagged: child, child theme, functions.php, parent, parent theme, style.css, theme, upgrade, wordpress, wordpress theme, wp, wp theme