Chris Gerling

The upgrade to WordPress 2.5 went very smoothly, all I did was backup my database and files, deactivate all the plugins except my InstantUpgrade plugin, and then ran that.  After enabling the same plugins I was running before, everything was fine.  Easily the most hassle-free upgrade I have ever done on any platform.

I disabled the Twitter Tools updates, I thought there was a weekly digest option but there wasn’t, and it was spamming the Hak5 feed.

We filmed segments for Hak5 3×09 yesterday, and it was a lot of fun.  I stood in for Darren’s segment, Matt stood in for mine.  Christine and I both did short tips and then we headed back home.  It was definitely weird being up there for the first time since December.  Hopefully we get another live show going soon.

Today I will be fixing up my garden to look nice, which is a project inspired by Christine.  I’ll put up pictures later.

I’ll be drawing up a diagram either tonight or tomorrow, or when I’m done with the network, but essentially what I am going to do is build a pfSense box out of the old P3 550 box, and run two switches on two separate NICs which will be appropriately designated in the software so there is as little chance as possible of crossover.

If you run a Wordpress blog and haven’t removed the code in footer.php which displays the version of wordpress you’re on, I would suggest doing so.  It’s a little security by obscurity-ish, but it’s one more small barrier against common vulnerabilities you may be passed over on if the attacker doesn’t know what version you’re on.

Thursday afternoon I ended up going into the hospital again for more post-tonsillectomy bleeding. It wasn’t as bad as it was on Monday but I still had to go under and they put another stitch in, along with the cauterization. I went from having 0 surgeries in my life to 3, all in the last 2 weeks. Hopefully this last one actually fixed the problem, but from what I am told the bleeding is purely random.

I picked up a couple more flash drives to replace the cheap ones I lost. A Patriot 8GB and a Sandisk 4GB (with U3). I was playing around with the U3 apps on Thursday before I had to abruptly head into the emergency room. I’ll be doing more of that today, and also fooling around with the Windows Server 2008 installation I did on a partition on my T61p. I used the guide at http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/ to convert the install into a workstation with the full Aero experience along with wireless network connectivity. I haven’t created a virtual machine using the Hyper-V beta yet, but I did enable it, and will be doing that today.

• Playing with Win Server 2008 and hanging around the IRC. #

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A news item from SANS today.  Those of you running Sun Java JRE may want to ensure you are removing old versions upon upgrading, as any Java applet can go ahead and request what version of JRE it wants, making your upgrade effort for naught.  The diary entry includes links to install/uninstall instructions.

Also over at SecurityFocus there is an interview with Bill Cheswick, who started the Internet Mapping Project which eventually evolved into software for mapping corporate and government networks.  It’s a very good read, touching on firewalling, logging, NIDS, IPS, how to fight DDOS attacks, and the future of BGP/DNS.

I will be upgrading to Wordpress 2.1 sometime Wed or Thurs, as I mentioned in yesterday’s entry.