Totally Unrelated Post
Well, first I want to let you know that I finally upgraded my weblog to LifeType's latest release (1.1.1, that is). Then there was the Firefox 2 release earlier today (check out the "agenda of the last steps"), and I found that ridiculous mister I sell everything Steve Balmer Video prising Windows 1.0:
BTW: It's dead simple to include YouTube and Google Videos with the new LifeType Editor :)
PHPSecInfo
The PHP Security Consortium has release v0.1.1 of their PHPSecInfo tool. From their website: The idea behind PHPSecInfo is to provide an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of code or app auditing, but can be a useful tool in a multilayered security approach.As PHPSecInfo doesn't provide any new information, at least with this release, I see it as a useful tool for the one's that are not very familiar with php and only want to set up some downloaded scripts on their own web server. What I'd like to see in upcoming versions is a LOT more verbosity. Explaining the settings in depth and giving advices on secure programming linked to some of the settings they test (like input validation without
magic_quotes_gpc, handling globals with globals off etc.)
Poor Man's Website Monitor
You can set up monitoring for your website in five minutes.
- create a text file "uptime.txt"
- add the word "success" on the first line
- upload it to your webserver (usually the root of your website)
- add your url and complete the form with your e-mail, name and a password
- done
The uptime.txt will be requested about every 15 minutes, if the file is not reachable you will get an e-mail warning. Uptime will still try to reach your site every 15 minutes and e-mail you again, as soon as the file is reachable again.
Although there may be tons of reasons why Uptime can't reach your website other than your website actually being down, it's still a handy service to get an idea of the service availablity, especially on (shared) hosting.
Can you see the difference?
No! It's the one on the right! ;) there are about 3.5 years between them. I wonder if there is another website, which is in "beta" since April 2003 - let me know if you know one! (and yes, I should have updated my site since ages. Oh, well...
Upgrade your Logo to Web 2.0 - found via Matthias.
blog.ch re-launched
While we are still bug hunting, the new version is already very stable and usable and blog.ch is probably the first big fast growing blog community providing their users free weblogs powered by LifeType 1.1.
BTW: For those interested in reading some feedback about the newly released blog.ch you may follow the discussion on Matthias Metablog
LifeType News
Phishing for Postfinance (Part 2)
Another not so clever idea they had, was to use port 8081 for all their links, be it for the logo (yes, they didn't link it from the original site, but from their phishing server!) or the phishing URL (http://219.163.9.224:8081/index.php?email=plog@hu-gi.to [modified email domain]) itself. According to a whois query the ip range belongs to an ISP from tokyo: (More)
