Monthly Archives: September 2010

Twitter vulnerabilities, using Windows, studying and new WordPress themes.

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Dougie

Graham Cluley, a Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos, has a nice blog piece on the Twitter worm from earlier this week. To cut a long story short, he reminds us of the importance of sanitizing inputs. Still, it was more … Continue reading →

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Bash

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Dougie

Two things that improve my bash productivity – stopping the cursor keys inserting characters in vim and history search in bash. Edit ~/.vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc (for system wide) and add turn off vi compatibility: set nocompatible The latter can be … Continue reading →

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Install web applications locally on Ubuntu

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dougie

I was talking with someone yesterday who is hacking a WordPress theme together. If you work with web sites, being able to run a site locally allows testing, experimentation, developing new themes and even just checking that a software update … Continue reading →

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