Browsing Category »Open Source«

Get a wordpress.com account with Flock Developer Preview 0.4.8

October 20, 2005

UPDATE: Want an account with wordpress.com? Just start up Flock, click on "blog" on the start page, then click WordPress. You'll get the special Flock users only signup page. Just moments ago I got an email from Flock advising that a Developer Preview was available. So I decided to try it out. It's most definitely changed quite a bit from version 0.1, the last version I reviewed. And this time, I took a few screenshots.

Bits of homeland stupidity

October 7, 2005

It's been a while since I've done one of these, mainly because of the blasted weather. So, here's another short collection of bits of government gone awry.

FBI to control what software you can run?

September 30, 2005

In an obscure policy decision published last Friday, the FCC decided that the FBI would have veto power over what software Americans can run on their computers.

Prevent accidental clicks on your own AdSense ads

August 4, 2005

Are you a Google AdSense publisher? Do you worry about accidentally clicking on your own ads and being thrown out of the program? I have a solution for you.

Forbes names WordPress Best of the Web

July 25, 2005

Forbes magazine has named WordPress Best of the Web in its Blog Tools category, saying that version 1.5 puts it squarely ahead of Movable Type.

Which is more secure, Windows or Linux?

July 13, 2005

The debate rages over whether Windows and proprietary applications or Linux and open source applications are more secure, but is it the right question to ask?

WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin 0.4 Released

January 19, 2005

The latest release of the WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin includes the #1 most requested feature (and in fact, so far the only requested feature). Is it actually working?

WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin 0.3 Released

January 8, 2005

I'm pleased to announce version 0.3 of the WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin. Based on reports that it actually works, I've changed its status from "pre-alpha" to "alpha." In addition, the following improvements are in this new version:

WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin

January 2, 2005

I hate spam. I really hate spam. And I hate comment spam on my site. A few of you noticed about 764 of them yesterday morning when you visited here. I thought I was fairly well protected against comment spam, but the spammers are getting smarter. So I decided to raise the stakes a bit. Introducing the WordPress SpamAssassin plugin.

Securing your Windows computer

November 20, 2004

I make no secret about my love for Linux, and I make no bones about it either. I understand many of you still run Windows and you have good reasons (and sometimes really bad ones) for doing so. But if you must run Windows and connect it to the Internet, please take some steps to secure it, not only for your own sake, but for the rest of us.

Copyright © 2012 Homeland Stupidity.

Bad Behavior has blocked 4533 access attempts in the last 7 days.