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I’ve updated my Sapphire adaptation for the new K2 v0.9.6 release.
Sapphire 0.3 is now compatible with K2 sidebars, which mean that the header and footer of the theme will be expanded or reduced according to the number of sidebars. To achieve this flexibility, I had to redo all images included in the original Sapphire theme. All Inkscape and Gimp source files can be found in the “sources” folder of the Sapphire v0.3 zip file. This total rework also mean that I no longer use any file or code from the legacy sapphire theme.
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I’m running 4 Wordpress blogs, for me and my friends. All of them are updated to latest version of Wordpress as soon as a new one is available.
One of them, Maomium, was hacked last night. Someone created a user account on it then stole my admin identity to post content. As soon as I discovered the hack, I’ve put the blog down and changed all passwords which may have been exposed to the hacker (database, etc…).
Before the hack happened, my apache log show me that a person was looking for blogs powered by Wordpress 2.2 and open to registration:
123.76-136-217.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be www.maomium.com - [07/Jun/2007:00:51:55 +0200] “GET /category/wordpress/ HTTP/1.1″ 200 2960 “http://www.google.be/search?hl=fr&q=%22powered+by+wordpress+2.2%22+Register&btnG=Rechercher&meta=” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4″
This person was my hacker. As you can see he’s a belgian guy and his broadband provider is Belgacom, to which I sent an abuse request. He register himself as Waryas with his myv4you@hotmail.com email. I know that, thanks to the email Wordpress send me each time someone register. Then google told me that this hack was not his first.
If you want to disect his behaviour, you can download my apache log.
This event show us that the Wordpress vulnerablility regarding guest account registration is still there. So the advice given by CountZero must be applied !
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This is a old discussion I had at least 9 months ago with people from the #kde IRC channel.
I was looking for a way to get an error message in english instead of french. After reading the following discussion, the solution is quite obvious, but at that time I was probably too tired to think efficiently… 
<kev1> Hi ! I use amarok in french and I would like to run it in english. How can I do ?
<kev1> Things like “env LANG=en amarok” doesn’t work…
<shining> kev1: LANG=C amarok
<shining> ho no
<shining> kde apps don’t use the locale env, do they? they use kde-i18n stuff
<Blissex> kev1: download the package with the amaroK english messages if your distro makes it a separate one. Else download the general KDE english stuff.
<Blissex> shining: they use both. They need the right package to get the actual messages/names, and then the env variable to select among them.
<kev1> Shining: doesn’t work either…
<shining> Blissex: ho I see
<Blissex> shining: problem is, they all use the language set when KDE started
<kev1> Blissex: ok I see…
<shining> kev1: why do you want that though? it’s a bit strange
<Blissex> kev1: it may be possible to run some KDE apps in one locale and others in another locale, but I would be surprised.
<kev1> Shining: I have some error messages in amarok but they are translated in french. I need the english version to search on google and/or make a bug report if necessary
<kev1> (I use amarok 1.4.2-beta1)
<Ardonik> kev1: kcontrol -> Accessibility -> Country
<kev1> Ardonik: ok, let me try it
<shining> kev1: ha yes, I had the same problem for other apps, where LANG=C worked fine
<kev1> Ardonik: thanks ! it work perfectly and immediatly ! Quite impressive
<Ardonik> No problem
<Blissex> kev1: what you can do is to change the locale in ‘Regional&Accessibility’, start amaroK, and then change it back.
<kev1> Blissex: yes, that’s what Ardonik suggest me and it work perfectly.
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