• What's with all the twitter scares? 2nd time twitter forces me to change my password. It's not funny, phones sites etc all need 2b changed #
• Have #LinkedIn hooked up 2 twitter now, suppose I'll have 2 start tweeting more again now. If only interesting stuff happened @ work #in #
• Looks like today is update day for me. #WordPress 2.8.6 and #ispconfig 2.2.34 #
• Watching skiing w my 2 boys, yay for lazy Saturdays. Mrs out on training, male only house atm #fb #

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• Doing some data house-keeping before heading into work for meetings. Better head off pending requests before leaving home… #
• Looking at a week away from the kids… #flymeto the Italian Dolomites #
• #flymeto Colorado, am desperate for a snow fix this winter. The Italian Alps will do as well #
• #Cisco can be so helpful: "support a maximum MTU size of 1500 or 1546 bytes". So what is the maximum on an NME-16ES?! http://bit.ly/29T3kp #
• Pls put #royalmail out o their misery! If I call it's because I can't do it online, don't refer me to ur website for 6 min on an 0845 nr #fb #
• Ahh, there is a list to choose from, silly me! #flymeto Chicago! Want to see an old friend and his #church plant. http://bit.ly/flymeto #
• Anywhere in the world? Wow! #flymeto New Zealand, On the slopes all day & a BBQ on the beach in the evening. Please let me surprise my wife! #
• RT: @ianjukes: Still wondering when the @newday2009 album No Shout Too Loud will be on iTunes? // What about #Spotify? in reply to ianjukes #
• Oh to see Table Mountain again and introduce my wife and kids to a refreshing culture & friendships forged ages ago. Pls #flymeto Cape Town! #
• RT: @steviesmith: This is amusing http://bit.ly/2IQxha – space invaders game that deletes Mac files as you play (as informed upfront) // LOL #
• Suggestions welcome for a good twitter account name for the Courtyard #Hitchin #church #plant #newfrontiers #fb #
• #flymeto the weekend, have had enough of this week and need sleep #
• Finally received the #Cisco switch to replace the network spaghetti at the school mrs Geurts is managing. I love #ebay! Will it fire up? #
• Still waiting for the sdcard readers I bought off ebay for 1.49 each incl S/H to do a SD card hack on my linksys WAP54G. #

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• Josh under general aneastetic, weird to see your own kids go under. Doesn't seem fair really. Should be out soon, only a minor op. #fb #
• Working late to compensate for today's time spent in hospital w Josh. He did really well, He's a v brave little boy. #fb #
• RT: @cyanogen: Direct link for 4.2.2 XDA thread: http://bit.ly/19rv2O #android // just upgraded from CM-4.0.4 looking v good so far #
• Just had an x-ray done & now waiting for an adhoc MRSA bug check. Might have hospital withdrawl symptoms tmr, been in for 3 days now… #fb #
• Hope I'll make my 10:00 meeting @ work. Need to finish this project asap, can only do so much non-stop documentation… #
• Been on twitter for a bit now and still don't know what #followfriday is. 140 character explanation anyone? #
• Paying for my slumber this afternoon by working now, the hours must be made… #
• Anyone else suffering from FC of the stock browser on CM-422? #cyanogen #CM #android #
• RT: @AndroidSocMedia: Android 2.0 will feature turn by turn navigation on Google Maps! That's what I'm talking about! // Beat that #iPhone #
• Wow, completely missed the EOL announcement on Agilent N2X. 2015 sounds like a long time, #Spirent puts it this way: http://bit.ly/1TEpin #
• RT @cyanogen CyanogenMod-4.2.3 is out! http://bit.ly/11U4wy USB Tether, BT OBEX, yum yum #android // Yay, cmupdater doesn't see it yet #
• Has anyone got a solution for md5 response error on cmupdater? Same for theme DL. #cyanogen #android #
• Cmupdater md5 issue gone after reboot. Thought I'd tried that already, sometimes things just don't make sense #cyanogen cm-4231 yay #android #
• Back from a long walk w the boys to the site of a Roman villa http://twitpic.com/no95a they must have loved the outdoors…. #fb #
• Yay, #android browser FC issue resolved by clearing the application data. http://bit.ly/4588LJ post 299. #

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• Desperately seeking Lawrence Hurter, not sure if his mobile nr has changed or if he's on holiday… #fb #
• How is it that #hackers manage to pin point the exact time that I'm ill to actually do something serious… #ill #fb #
• #Skype on #Ubuntu #Jaunty == cpu hog. Seems that regularly when I turn my back on my laptop, Skype feels the need to take 100% cpu. #fail #
• switched to skype-static-oss so far so good #skype #ubuntu #jaunty #
• All #security updates done. Now I can write about how 2 sites I host were defaced by a #1923turk-grup member & how I kicked him out #fb #
• Testing TweetSuite WordPress plugin #
• How do I set #storcon as configured in #apt or #dpkg? Current status is half-configured, want to get rid of error running #aptitude #ubuntu #

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TweetSuite didn’t post a link to the article/post so trying twitter tools now. Feels a lot more mature in the admin department so far…

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If all goes well this post should be tweeted. Sorry for the spam…

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Two days ago my wife was notified by one of her customers of a defacement of their site. Obviously this kinda stuff always happens when I’m ill and the last thing I want to be doing is dealing with some random hacker. This post is about what I found and how this should motivate people to at all times update their websites with the latest security fixes and practices.

As far as I’m aware no sensitive data was access nor was any serious damage done other than a few index.html files over written. The only real loss is the joomla site that was broken into as the owner is on holiday and hadn’t updated it for a while, suffice to say it’s down for the time being.

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Seeing this initiative made me think of my wife who has spent the last year carving out her own piece of the IT industry. Some may call me biased, true. Call it what you like, I’m taking this opportunity to put my wife in the limelight and honour her for her efforts and achievements after we relocated to the UK.

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Been hacking away as I found out I couldn’t edit a page nor did the page show up. My about page linked to the gallery instead. Spilt some blood and danced around on the keyboard loads. the result:

Note to self: DO NOT alter permalinks for pages! my about page was linked as who-am-i and this caused major issues. I also turned off the automatic XHTML corrections in the write-options page, not sure what it does so I’d rather get an error when writing a page than have my site go down. Priorities they say…

next to that my gallery now runs mod_rewrite in safe mode which works fine and I’ve re-linked an image on my about page. I recon the link was old style from WP 2.3 and older versions of WPG2 and Gallery2.

Please let me know if you find any issues, particularly with missing images. I hope all is well now and my server won’t die another terrible dead due to rewite/permalink hell.

Finally I have found the real culprit: /.htaccess was messing with things. What made it hard to find was that this file has been in place for a few years now. Upgrading WordPress to v2.7 as well as WPG2/Gallery2 tipped the balance.

What worked?
RewriteRule ^$ /wordpress/ [R=301,L]

Instead of:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/.+
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/ [R=301,L]

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It appears my host was under attack this morning. Have mitigated as much as I could but there’s only so much one can do against dns ddos attacks… Sorry for todays downtime.

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Please excuse me while I hunt some issues with this site after upgrading wordpress, gallery2 and wpg2…

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Note to self: disable and/or clear rewrite rules before upgrading… (Still in stormy water, just testing if I can update posts now)

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Not posted much about moving countries yet. As I’m on a roll I might as well just give a little update for all those who know me and wonder what I’m up to.

We’re not out of the boxes yet but working hard to get there. Hayley’s work and my CCIE are both ensuring that many hours are spent cleaning, drilling, moving and sorting. Trying to fit the same ammount of stuff in a different house is proving to be quite the challenge. It’s much like one of those kiddy puzzles where you have to move the squares around to find the picture. I often ended up picking the squares out and then putting them back in order. Sadly I can’t apply the same process here.

Due to family and work related deadlines we’ll have to get the study in order before the end of the month. Now if only I can get my phone system to behave and get myself access to nscglobals CCIE lab then I should be all set to go come March.

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Not posted much recently, it’s time to add some more meat…

Last week I passed the F5 BIG-IP LTM v9.0 essentials exam. Was easier than I thought, however tomorrow I may be humbled further as I go for the advanced version of the F5 BIG-IP LTM v9.0 test. Studying with the training books from 4 days worth of training but without further hands on is not what I call fun. Admittedly it’s a lot easier than CCIE so what really am I moaning about. I suppose it the fact that I’m not studying for my next lab…

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Completed a server migration the weekend before last. Had to spend some time on my DNS configuration/migration and email. Both of which are now working as they should but www.djerk.nl doesn’t look right. Mailed the author of the vSlider3.[0|1] theme I use as it seems it’s unable to read the settings.

Odd things is the files, permissions and database are the same as what I have on the old server. Still there it looks perfect and here it doesn’t… Suggestions welcome! Reverting back to the default theme comes up fine. Where does vSlider store its settings?

[edit, 6 Feb 2008] Right, sorted the theme problem. A row in my WordPress database had gone weird, not sure what exactly went wrong but it may have been the database sync I used to keep the new server in sync with the now removed server. Anyway, I removed row vSlider from table wp_options and the theme then created a new one with default settings. Still trying to figure out what all my personalised settings were so please bear with me while I tinker away.

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