Category Archives: Web and Tech

Tech stuff and entries about other places on the web.

Installing TwonkyMedia 5 on TS101

Published February 7, 2010

So here we have a Qnap TS101 NAS device. It’s quite a neat little thing, does a number of different sharing tasks from one hard-drive sized case. It shipped with TwonkyMedia 4, and as we’re getting more involved with media sharing in our household and our TV came with 3 TwonkyMedia 5 licences, I wanted [...]

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Patrick Stewart new year honour

Published December 19, 2009

It’s reported that Captain Pickard, or, in real life, Patrick Stewart, is to be knighted in the New Year honours list. I can only agree, and say “make it so”. A very varied and talented actor, he is. In other news, we are hearing more confirmation that Schumacher is close to an F1 return with [...]

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WordPress 2.8.3 released

Published August 3, 2009

WordPress 2.8.3 has been released as a security-related recommended upgrade. The changes fix some loopholes that allowed direct access to a few WordPress include files. Everyone is advised to upgrade their copies as soon as. (Remember with newer versions you can generally use the auto-upgrade functionality especially if your host uses PHP5.)

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Upgrade your copy now…

Published July 31, 2009

There seems to be growing evidence that the XSS vunerability in versions of WordPress before 2.8.2 is now being exploited for real in the wild. The manifestation seems to be that, after recieving a maliciously-crafted comment, affected blogs display a login panel Title: Authentication Required Text: The server (yourserver) at Magic requires a username and [...]

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The old and the new

Published May 19, 2009

The old – the supposed find of “the missing link” in the shape of a perfectly preserved human-dinosaur hybrid fossil. This must be a fake if ever I heard of one. Already there is a book and TV show around it. Hmm. Impressive media machine, though. The new – WordPress 2.8 beta 1 is available [...]

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