Category: Data
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A cryptocurrency-mining bot brute-forced into my WordPress site
Someone brute-forced into a client’s WordPress site and added cryptomining js. Good thing they knocked down an HTML div on their way out!
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Fix SSH backspace coming out as “^?”
When using SSH at FS Data, pressing backspace in Vim were coming out as ^? so editing files was a hassle. (I am on a Linux workstation btw.) I found a solution in the Vim documentation, via a Stack Overflow post. I just opened ~/.vimrc and added the following: :if &term == “xterm-256color” : set…
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Duplicated
id="x"in WP Meta BoxesI am building a very minimalistic calendar plugin for WP (an idea that doesn’t seem to turn out very well so far), and I got a cryptic JS error when adding JQuery datepicker saying “a is undefined”. I debugged this for a good two or three hours, until today I tried replacing the minified datepicker.js…
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Customer-specified price in Drupal 7 Commerce
Today, I spent several hours messing about with the Rules UI and googling Commerce docs and forums, trying to figure out how to provide a field where the customer can freely choose the price of a donation-style product. In the end, I found pointers to a method which turns out to work pretty well. My…
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PhpStorm keymap in Ubuntu
I am used to using PhpStorm on a Mac, but now I am with Ubuntu on a ThinkPad so the keymapping is all off. I want to use the Mac OS X keymap, but contrary to my expectation, pressing the Windows key does not produce the Meta symbol so I cannot access half the shortcuts.…
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Easy SSL on NearlyFreeSpeech
There is a technology that encrypts your internet traffic. It’s called SSL and it prevents third parties from snooping on what you submit on web pages – passwords and other data. If the website address you’re visiting begins with https, the site is SSL-enabled. Your browser will probably also show a padlock icon near the…
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Single-machine dev mail setup
I sometimes work on websites where sending email is a central task. To be able to efficiently test my code on my Ubuntu development machine, I have created a simple setup from the following requirements: No mail should reach the internet I should be able to quickly read every message that is “sent” from PHP…
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Re-map obtrusive PrtSc key to take a webcam snapshot
I just switched from a MacBook Pro to a Lenovo ThinkPad, where I had Ubuntu installed. Switching OS is not too much of a problem, as I am already used to Ubuntu from before. What’s causing more irritation is the new input devices, i.e. the trackpad and the keyboard. One of the more annoying features…