Switching Blogging Platforms and Hosting Providers:
The site might be down much of the weekend. By Monday, we should be on WordPress, hosted by Hosting Matters, with design by Sekimori. (Many thanks to Sekimori, by the way, for all her help with the conversion so far, and for her help to come!)
I would hope the RSS feed location won't change; it looks like it should be easy to set up a redirect.
It would be great if you could keep comment preview around with Wordpress; the default install doesn't have it, as I recall, and it's quite handy when you're hand-coding up HTML as a sanity check.
I've appreciated being able to comment here in safety.
Maybe we'll be able to talk again.
Good luck!
“Always leave while the music is still playing.”
In any event, I hope the change over goes smoothly and look forward to at least reading and learning from so many from here on the new site. JJ
Looking forward to your "new and improved" blog (with 20% more snark?). :-D
This is good advice. But beyond that, it's also useful to limit access to the wpadmin directory and to the login directory using .htaccess.
If most of you guys usually access the admin panel from known IP's, you can set the .htaccess to permit access from a finite number of specific IP addresses. (As a single author blog, I limit to il.comcast.net. You could limit to 10 possible combinations. This does provide a bit of extra security, but it is a pain in the neck if you blog when on travel. I just modify .htacess when I travel. With some thought you can probably think of a useful .htaccess file.)
This is an important point. I have been on message boards where a change in provider or format has left the previous material inaccessible. Not good at all.
The Volokh is a great resource for furrigners like me.
I'm studying Constitutional Law et al at an Aussie Law School and you guys help me make sense of the American can of worms.
For anyone going through withdrawl here is a link to an essay regarding black letter law and the Australian Constitution
Regarding Teori Tau v Commonwealth.
thanks Eugene
thanks Volokhers
please.
PLEASE.
Just let the site admins do this, and we can all complain about how they should have done it differently if it breaks. SOP.
Botnet recruitment.
Javascript opens you up to a whole medley of 0-days.
You always wanted to be pwned by a botnet.
Not exactly, but it will certainly be a topic you are posting on in the future!
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