Time for a blog. Mainly to test security stuff and kick wordpress around in the hope that it will break. Anyhow, I’m thinking of putting stuff here, like all about the books (both paperware and vapourware), rants about traffic, deep thoughts about life and truth, and family. Maybe also requests for special food (what’s for supper tonight, dear? Toast you say? Yay!). The odd smattering of code might help. Anything that can be filed as “stuff”. That should keep it focussed. As I have previously shared my thoughts with the world, and experienced the depth of the appreciation for those same thoughts, I knew that the time would eventually come when these same people could advise me not to write, as they advise me not to speak.
Okay, so I’m fiddling php.ini. This is great, but I need something to test on. Stupid stupid. Now I have to set up this thing. Probably going to get so hacked so fast. Oh well. Okay, I’ve learned some stuff. WordPress cannot live without create_function() – it uses it a lot. This stinks, because that function is, well, not a nice function, which I would gladly disable.
So this is my very own php.ini disable_functions list, snarfed from everyone that has one:
disable_functions = shell_exec,exec,system,passthru,popen,proc_open,
pass_thru,pcntl_exec,proc_close,proc_get_status,proc_nice,proc_terminate,
dl,pclose,pfsockopen,posix_kill,phpinfo,escapeshellcmd,show_source,glob,
hopenbasedir,link,symlink,ini_alter,escapeshellarg,posix_mkfifo,mysql_list_dbs,
get_current_user,getmyi,syslog,socket_create_pair,socket_bind,pcntl_fork,
pcntl_signal,pcntl_waitpid,pcntl_wexitstatus,pcntl_wifexited,pcntl_wifsignaled,
pcntl_wifstopped,pcntl_wstopsig,pcntl_wtermsig,openlog,
apache_get_modules,apache_get_version,apache_getenv,apache_note,
apache_setenv,virtual
That’s pretty stirring stuff, isn’t it? Well, it was, but the stylesheet needed some work. Whose idea was it to include in CSS a method for overlapping text from one line to the next as a default way of displaying content? Very good work to him, but, um, it would have been nice if there was a better way…
