infrequent delusions of grandeur
Technical
So I Guess I Was Hacked
Nov 19th
Something a lot like this. It seems that the point of entry was TinyMCE. It serves me right for languishing on such an old version of WordPress for so long.
I don’t know exactly how this site was being exploited but I hope that nothing malicious happened to any of my two to three visitors. You’re all reading on RSS these days, right? Anyway, I blew away the installs and got latest versions which (fingers crossed) have these vulnerabilities closed. I’m still in the process of bringing the DB entries over. Turns out there’s been a few schema changes since 2.0.3. So there may be some weirdness in the mean time.
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Tivo and the Transparent Proxy
Mar 3rd
TPG has caused me problems before. So I guess I wasn’t really surprised when my Tivo began failing in its updating of guide data. Transparent proxies appear to be the cause. First, they prevent me from getting anything from RapidShare. Then Google started informing me that they suspected me of being an automated process. Finally, the Tivo. I could not abide the loss of the Tivo.
Luckily it was the OzTivo group to the rescue. And after quickly finding and following their straightforward guide to bypassing transparent proxies, we are up and running again and currently loading 67% of guide data.
Thank you OzTivo.
With Tivo officially bringing the Series 3 to Australia this year it will be interesting to see if the service you pay for is as good as the service already being provided for free. One would hope so.
Pending Callbacks
Aug 16th
Speaking of .Net 2.0 callbacks. I’ve been using them for a while now. Since before Atlas was released as ASP.Net AJAX. Hence the decision to begin using the former. Bertrand Le Roy’s blog was extremely helpful.
However, on the odd occasion one would see the following javascript error.
__pendingCallbacks[...].async is null or not an object