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Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2015

Breakage, updated...

It turns out I didn't break my Wordpress install. But my home IP address *had* changed, and I have lots of things locked down to specific IP addresses for access. So I've got two of the three sites puzzled out. But one of them appears to have a broken theme directory. I'll be looking into that now... [A few minutes later, after looking at logfiles] Yup - the twentyeleven theme needed fixing on another site - I refreshed the whole thing, and I'll keep a close eye on it in the next short while. I don't remember mucking about in…

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2015

De-broken WP; Yardwork

Well, sometime last week, one of the changes that I made while working with "responsive" Wordpress themes and site links broke the site. Not the part you see, but the administrative and posting functionality. Sadly, I've been busy enough that I didn't catch this until last night late. So I just fixed it, and I'm taking a few minutes to catch up. * * * Over the weekend, I washed the car, planted flowers front and back, and planted about half of the expected veggies. More on that later, but here's the Box of Pain (aka - peppers): * *…

Brian Bilbrey November 9, 2013

Six Days of LISA '13

Howdy. My name's Brian, and I'm a tired SysAdmin... So, six days of tutorials and talks at the USENIX LISA '13 conference are done. And it was good. My behind is, however, glad to be shut of those hotel conference chairs. Sunday, 3 November Sunday's full day tutorial was called Securing Linux Servers, and was taught by Rik Farrow, a talented bloke who does security for a living, and is Editor of the USENIX ;login: magazine on the side. We covered the goals of running systems (access to properly executing services) and the attacks that accessibility (physical, network) enable. As always,…

Brian Bilbrey June 4, 2011

Not insane after all

At least, I'm not insane for any of the usual reasons. A few times over the last couple of weeks, my Linux system here would be dark. When I got home from work ... when I woke up in the morning. That's not normal, because as the home storage, DNS, and mail server, off is a bad state to be in. I figured it was the system, though, and was waiting for some logged evidence of the sub-system I need to replace. Last night, I left the Windows box running, too, mostly out of laziness. This morning, both systems were…

Brian Bilbrey May 30, 2011

First Post! Natali Portman and Hot Grits!

Yeah, I've always wanted to have my own little bit of Slash* over here. If you're looking for the older stuff, you can start over there, on the Site Map. Search on the main site is currently broken, and that's on my to-do list. So, WordPress reappears on the OrbDesigns site. I'm going to be moving Marcia over to WP soon, and figured I'd better be using it first. Hmmm ... what about pictures?