I have avoided blocking image hot linking for a long time as I didn’t ever think it would be necessary. However it seems users of the wonderful myspace.com have taken a liking to some of my images and started hot linking them from their pages. As such I have decided to block hot linking of my images using a simple set of Apache rewrite rules in the .htaccess file for this site.
Author: westi
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WordPress 2.0.2 released – Security update
WordPress v2.0.2 has been released with a number of security updates so it is well worth upgrading.
To simplfy the upgrade process I decided to try generating a diff file between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 and using that to patch my sites rather than uploading a full set of new files.
Here is the process I took on my local machine to generate the diif file:
- Exported both 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 from svn using the following commands:
To get 2.0.2 - svn --force export http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.0
To get 2.0.1 - svn --force export http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.1
- Generated a patch file using diff:
diff -U3 -r 2.0.1 2.0 > 2.0.1.to.2.0.2.patch
I then uploaded the patch file to my server and placed it in my home directory and applied the patch as follows:
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coComment
The new kid on the block coComment is getting a lot of buzz at the moment. It’s invite only at present but I registered this morning an an invite code was winging it’s way to me within the hour. First impressions are good.
The ability to keep track of all those blog posts that I’ve commented on is something I’ve wanted to be able to do easily for a while. (via Climb to the Stars and Weblog Tools Collection)