Terms and Conditions Plugin 0.3 I have taken the terms-and-conditions plugin written by Levi Putna, and repackaged it to version 0.3. My changes are solely to require re-acceptance of the terms and conditions if the site administrator changes the files on disk. This means that whenever you change the T&Cs, your users are re-prompted with the updated documents. When upgrading from 0.2 or below from Levi and the WordPress plugins repository, all users will have to re-accept the existing conditions due to a modification in how the accepted state is stored.

.. may have reared it’s head again as, over the weekend, a Thames Water “deep thrust borer” tunnelling machine managed to completely destroy a set of BT fibre-optic lines. The initial outage caused over 70,000 customers and businesses to be cut off, including telecoms & mobile cell-phone services along with broadband and dedicated line connections. (see: The Register, and The Register) A statement about Vodafone was released yesterday morning that read:

Is this the final stages of the OpenMosix clustering addition to the Linux kernel? It has been announced from Moshe Bar, the leader of the openMosix project, that he wishes to leave the project and shut down development. The first I heard of this was a curious question on the oM users mailing list, and has since been confirmed by a mailing by Moshe himself. Florian Delizy has since said that he will continue his own development, and so will a few others, creating a fork of the OpenMosix code if needed.

So I finally got around to uploading a copy of ThemeDeFrem WordPress theme for the world at large to play with. The source is all available at the github (https://github.com/lucyllewy/ThemeDeFrem). Fork away and enjoy. I will be adding customisable colour schemes and whatnot, too, in the future. Also on the cards is native support for google ads and the wibiya sitebar (both of which I had here on my own site until I uploaded the latest copy of the theme).

Oh dear, it looks like another high profile hack has managed to get the perpetrator a job in the “security” field. Stupid thing is that he probably knows next to nothing about security. As reported by The Register: The self-confessed author of the recent Twitter worm has scored a potentially lucrative job doing security analysis and web development work… … [The] founder and chief exec of Web applications development firm exqSoft Solutions, told ABC that Mooney has accepted the job he offered, which will involve security analysis and Web development.

Warning: this is a random amalgum of what should really be separate posts. I have just finished going through the 600 or so queued up comments for my blog. The most heavily commented articles appear to be my OSX86 Snow Leopard post and, somewhat surprisingly my AJAX Blog post. This latter post’s comments were entirely spam, however. Out of the many obviously spam comments there were a few that didn’t stand out as being such, so I allowed those through and, being the diligent person I am, I replied to all the new comments with at the very least a thankyou for the message.