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Comment Re:That's why I stopped using Wordpress (Score 0) 100

by dasuser on Sunday August 16, 2009 @12:11PM (#29083981) Attached to: WordPress Exploit Allows Admin Password Reset

Humorously enough, a friend and I stated rolling our own minimal blog software after realizing that a base install of Wordpress is over 6 MB.

It supports comments, multiple posting users, categories, has RSS, will let you theme it (although there is still a bunch of hardcoded HTML generation that we're working to remove for the next major revision) and is less than 300 KB installed.

Sourceforge project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/blobblogsystem/

Comment Another thread, another flamewar (Score 5, Funny) 338

by dasuser on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @02:44PM (#28546875) Attached to: Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome

Well, I guess we're in for a thread about how Firefox is still the (greatest|worst) browser in existence because of its (extensions|javascript performance|standards compliance|support for HTML 5). Looks like I need to go and get some snacks and pull up a recliner.

Submission + - New attack exploits virtually all intranets, VPNs (threatpost.com) 1

Submitted by redsoxh8r on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @03:48PM

redsoxh8r writes: Security researcher Robert Hansen, known as Rsnake, has developed a new class of attacks that abuses a weakness in many corporate intranets and most browsers to compromise remote machines with persistent JavaScript backdoors. Threatpost reports: "The attacks rely on the long-term caching policies of some browsers and take advantage of the collisions that can occur when two different networks use the same non-routable IP address space, which happens fairly often because the amount of address space is quite small. The bottom line is that even a moderately skilled attacker has the ability to compromise remote machines without the use of any vulnerability or weakness in the client software. "If you're even vaguely clever, developing this might take you two hours. It's not that difficult," said Robert Hansen, the researcher who wrote about the attacks in a white paper published this week, called "RFC1918 Caching Security Issues."

Submission + - One-fifth of us have lost sight of Milky Way (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @04:22AM

An anonymous reader writes: Light pollution has caused one-fifth of the world's population — mostly in Europe, Britain and the U.S. — to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky. "The arc of the Milky Way seen from a truly dark location is part of our planet's natural heritage," said Connie Walker, and astronomer from the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. Yet "more than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the U.S. population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way."

Comment Re:Oh good god... (Score 0) 1582

by dasuser on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:10PM (#27420225) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

Yep, you'll only have to wait for -12 years to get one.

Submission + - BLOB 1.0 Released! (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by SF:t3h933k on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @01:50AM

SF:t3h933k writes: BLOB 1.0, the first public version of the lightweight blog software, is out now! Get it while it\'s hot! Get it while we haven\'t yet decided to make version numbers nonsensical!

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