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Lock down

I ran some security upgrades on the site and promptly ran into a problem with the user permissions not being set right. Google to the rescue.

Once your tables are renamed with a different prefix, you need to modify the prefix_usermeta and prefix_options tables with the following code:

PLAIN TEXT
SQL:
  1. UPDATE `prefix_usermeta` SET `meta_key` = REPLACE( `meta_key` , ‘wp_‘, ‘prefix_‘ );
PLAIN TEXT
SQL:
  1. UPDATE `prefix_options` SET `option_name` = ‘prefix_user_roles’ WHERE `option_name` =‘wp_user_roles’ AND `blog_id` =0;

Replace all occurrences of prefix with your changed version and you are good to go.

Tags: Technology, Web site by uruloki
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Biker week

It’s biker week here at the abuelos place, and I’ve been watching some very nice bikes with some very very big girls attached to the back of them. 99% of the bikes are sport bikes this week, supposedly the bike week two weeks ago had all the cruisers and stuff. These sport bikes have some BBW attached to them and I am not sure that they are there for eye candy :cry: or if they are being used in place of air bags :twisted: The coolest bike I’ve seen had the front cowl molded into the form of a maskless Predator, with cannon.

There has also been a crap ton of the hip-hop cars driving around. Two-tone paint, spinners, crazy windows, gullwing doors, it’s a multi-million dollar extravaganza of people who don’t worry about tomorrow.

Tags: Life by uruloki
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Man’s greatest invention

The twist-off bottle cap (specifically for beer).

Ahhhhh….

Tags: Life by uruloki
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O Rly?

I just got this from Amazon:

The item(s) listed below will actually
ship sooner than we originally expected: “Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Collector’s Edition [DVD-ROM]” [DVD-ROM] Estimated arrival date: 10/14/2008 – 10/20/2008

Win?

Tags: Gaming by uruloki
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Security stuff

I just upgraded to WP 2.5.1 to fix the security bug that was in 2.5. It basically allowed exploits to be run on blogs with open user registration, which used to be this one as well. Immediately after I upgraded to 2.5, I looked at the user management page for the first time in, well, ever. I’m a very good writer to a lot of Russians apparently, since I had about 390 random—spam-like—emails registered on the site mostly with .ru* extensions. The highlight of the list was EltonJohn and RonPaul, who I think registered to approve of everything I have ever said. ;) After the cleanup and just before 2.5.1 went on, I had to go clear another 34 “people” that had registered. The site is now closed to open registrations, I have to approve everyone now.

Then there is the home computer. I’ve been running out of space on the hard-drive and wondering where it’s all going. A couple of nights ago, Disk Defragmenter highlighted a file it couldn’t move since it was too big for the available space on the HD. My Function Key Controller driver has somehow ballooned to 1.3 GB. The download from Alienware? 1.3 MB. Something has taken up residence so it is time to do a full clean on the harddrive. I’ll also be running WinDirStat or JDiskReport to figure out where some of the big files are that I never use.

I’m also doing the pricewatch.com surfing to try and find another hard drive with decent space that is under $50 so I can get it without checking with the CINCHouse.

Tags: Technology by uruloki
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