Take a look at this screenshot:
The 4th fastest growing blog shown there is a spam blog. I thought wordpress.com was having troubles with spam blogs soon after they launched. And I thought they devised a way to prevent it for the most part. I wonder if the spammers have come up with a new method to do their trickery…
WordPress.com, the free blog hosting site based off WordPress, is getting ready to allow users to use their own domain names in conjunction with the wordpress.com service. What’s that mean? You will be able to setup a domain to point to your wordpress.com blog.
For example, I blog at http://slackware.wordpress.com. If I bought the slackwareblog.com domain, I could point it to slackware.wordpress.com. So, slackwareblog.com would essentially be running on top of WordPress.com. It’s a lot like gmail for your domain.
Right now, WordPress.com is only testing this feature out, offering it to the first 8 people to comment on the WordPress.com blog post discussing the new feature. I’ve been wishing for this feature since I started using wordpress.com, glad it’s finally on the horizon.
On a related note, “92.63% of the traffic to WordPress.com is for blogs outside of the top 25.” I figured it’d be lower than that, but that’s pretty impressive for those outside the top 25.
Wombats don’t like to fight. Some guy in Toledo had a bunch of Wombats in an attempt to start a wombat-fighting ring. Apparently he was pretty upset when his Wombats didn’t exhibit any violent behavior:
“The bastard who sold them to me said they were vicious killers,” said Kensington. “I paid $300 bucks for a pair of eucalyptus-leaf eating retards who just stare at each other with a dull glare.”
Kensington tried many techniques to get the wombats to fight, but all they would do is “eat and breed.”
“Yeah, I tried poking ‘em with sticks, yelling at ‘em, and dumping acid on their heads, but nothing seemed to work,” he said. “They just sit there and stare at you, drooling and grunting.”
The animals, said Kensington, have been a bad investment, and he was “relieved” when police arrived.
“Not only will they not fight, but they dig their way out of every kennel I’ve built,” he said. “Good riddance, I say about the smelly bastards.”
Dumb ass.
WordPress 2.0.4 has been released.
WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board.
I can’t find any documentation stating the user registration vulnerability has been fixed, but Kelson is reporting it has been taken care of in WordPress 2.0.4. I believe this WordPress release was pushed out quickly due to some information revealed by Dr. Dave earlier in the week.
I’m still not 100% sure that the problems pointed out by Dr. Dave have been fixed. Can anyone confirm that it has been? For those interested, here’s a list of bugs that have been closed as of the 2.0.4 release [via Dougal Campbell].
UPDATE: WordPress 2.0.4 does indeed fix the user registration vulnerability. Dr. Dave has done some testing of his own and seems pretty sure this vuln is fixed. It’s still probably a good idea to disable user registration just to be safe:
As for the “users can register” option: enabling it back should be OK.
I personally will leave it off on my blogs, as I just don’t feel like entrusting strangers with access to wp-admin in the current state of the code (I insist that the aforementioned exploit has been fixed now, I am only being paranoid here).
OK, Dreamhost has had two outages due to power outages this week. Lots and lots of people are mad. Luckily this is the only site I host with Dreamhost, and this site doesn’t really matter so it doesn’t really upset me.
However, there are lots of people who try to run a business with Dreamhost. They either use Dreamhost to serve their company website or they resell web hosting. In either case, having two large periods of unexpected downtime in two weeks will have a negative impact on business.
On the Dreamhost Status blog, there was mention of a generator catching fire. The mention of the fire is no longer on the Dreamhost Status blog, but I copied the entire text of the post and quoted it at the Slackware Blog.
There has apparently been another power outage at the datacenter. One of the generators caught fire and they were taken offline. We’re waiting for more information and we’ll post here as soon as we hear anything.
I posted some stuff about the outage on the Slackware Blog, including some links to some comments made by some upset customers:
Lots of customers are pissed off, as they probably should be. Those links are to customers comments on the most recent post at the DreamHost Blog. I’m lucky enough that the only sites I have there are personal and don’t really matter. I feel for the people trying to run a business with Dreamhost. I had problems at work with Bluehost, but nothing like this.
One customer thinks Dreamhost should demand compensation from the datacenter in LA for the recent downtime:
I think Dreamhost should look at demanding compensation from the datacentre – and passing that onto affected customers.
A datacentre which says it provides “one of the most sophisticated, redundant power systems in all of Los Angeles” should never have this sort of problems. Sure – I can understand one power outage disaster (accidents happen), but TWO in the space of a week is just unacceptable.
Sounds like a good idea to me. There’s lots of interesting comments at the most recent post on the Dreamhost Blog. Most of the comments are pretty negative and a fair number suggest they’re going to drop Dreamhost and go elsewhere.
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