September 6, 2009 – 1:19 pm
This is, sadly, a report about the present. I read reports yesterday about an attack on all versions of WordPress except the very latest – 2.8.4. I have a bunch of sites that I maintain and many of them were pretty easy to upgrade by using the built-in automatic upgrade feature. I also have a few sites that are old and inactive. Those needed to be upgraded by hand. The thing that I noticed on ALL of the sites that were not already running 2.8.4 was that they had hidden admin users on them. The sneaky thing about that is that you may not have any other symptoms besides these hidden accounts and then think you are safe once you’ve upgraded. The are, essentially, back doors left on your site to be exploited later. So you have to make sure to get rid of them. The process is a little tricky – at least it’s not a typical WordPress user operation so I’ve documented to ways to do it in this screencast.
Ryanne, Jay and I have been trying to come up with a good way to embed ogg video with the new video tag and have it still work in browsers that don’t support that yet. We want to show people how to set that up at the Open Video Conference. We came up with a [...]
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Following up on the last post about HTML 5 and OGG video, here are some ideas that I’ve been thinking about in preparation for the Open Video Conference. If you have some ideas please leave a comment here or email me.
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Today I was playing with Ogg video (Theora) and the new HTML 5 video element which is supported in the Firefox 3.1 beta. This is a short screencast showing Ogg video playing in the new Firefox and the simplicity of using the video [...]
December 12, 2008 – 11:23 pm
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This is a quick tour around mogulus for the artists who will be participating in 24 Hours 24 Artists. The video is actually 1280 x 720 pixels so be sure to hit the fullscreen button to get the full effect.