Day: 12 March 2005

Yes, more blog fun! I’ve added another feature – you can now have multiple users. Unfortunately a prerequisite of that is you have a MySQL database. I could store the info in a password file, but I thought that would be less secure (although the passwords are encrypted, I’d still rather people couldn’t actually see the encrypted versions).

I think the next step is actually making a version of this blog system which can be setup by someone with or without a MySQL database, i.e. by setting options on installation. That won’t require a significant amount of re-coding, just the difference between updating a database and password file.

Oh, and I also updated the counter – now it hopefully should only count you once per session! I figured out that sessions problem I was having.

Bring it on!

Well, well, well, three holes in the ground… it seems that Microsoft has retracted its lawsuit against a student, for selling a copy of Microsoft Windows and Office XP on eBay. Have a read of the story on The Register. My favourite bit is:

“Microsoft has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial and irreparable damage to its business reputation and goodwill as well as losses in an amount not yet ascertained,” it said. “Defendant’s acts of copyright infringement have caused Microsoft irreparable injury.”

Poor Microsoft, suffering irreparable damage from someone selling a copy of XP… read the story for the excellent response!

Well, I’ve update the comments system, so that you can now post comments on the archives. You can also disable comments for the site and the archives 🙂

So if any of you start abusing the comments system, not only can I delete the comment, I can disable comments 😉

All I need to do now is to make a web-based management console… hmmm…