A new release of NewsFire is available. Version 0.2 now features an icon – but also problems with German Umlauts in the Feed-List.
Archiv für den Monat September 2004
SSH login attempts
Do you also wonder about ongoing login attempts via ssh? We had a lot on our servers in the last few days. There seems to be some new sort of multithreaded SSH bruteforcer who does this kind of annoying logins and scans. Read a thread in this forum, on SANS or myNetWatchman. The script seems to test many accounts now.
Internet Explorer error messages
When I was debugging my new RSS-feed I encountered this nice error message in IE 5 on Mac OS X. The messages says: »The text contains an invalid character«.
WordPress
I used a self programmed system to publish on this page for years now, but at the end it was too unflexible. I did’nt want to do a research for alternatives and I didn’t want to spend time on coding. But I remembered Gui Bonsiepe asking me something about »WordPress«. So I visited http://www.wordpress.org and just tried it.
I imported all my messages from the old system (I know SQL so that part was no problem) and did a template-redesign for my site (this was another long planned task…). Now my site is not even XHTML 1.0 compliant but also based on WordPress! So far I’m really happy with :wp:!
New tutorial how to remove a TYPO3 installation
I wrote a little how-to (currently German only) on how to remove a TYPO3 installation on a Mac OS X system. This should help to remove all files installed by the TYPO3 Quickstart 3.6.0 installer package.
IconSurf
Browsing my webserver access statistics I found an interesting bot entry and followed it to the website http://iconsurf.com/. IconSurf seems to be a nice project to gather favicons. It creates unique hashes of all this little images to compare them with hashes already stored in the database. This feature allows to check if a favicon is used twice or even more.
Besides that it’s of course a hard way to visually compare all these icons.
»This website is intended as a resource for webmasters, consumers, and surfers. The icons displayed here are the favicon.ico files from a variety of websites. By clicking on any one icon you will be directed to the website which hosts the icon.«