A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

Lately around the internet, particularly tech forums and other places, Wordpress has been critisized for it’s security flaws, and it’s plugins.

In particular, people critizie wordpress because a lot of user-submitted plugins are highly vunerable to specific attacks and other things due to bad coding.

I’d like to remind people, that once again these plugins are user-submitted.

As well, plugin security issues is in no way unique to wordpress. Plenty of other software – forums, CMSes, blogs, and other things – that support plugins have these issues. It’s not unique to wordpress.

So please keep that in mind. Thank you.

404 script fixed, so you can once again browse my inactive and old blog.

Stuff:
- Joined a new project
- Took a trip to florida, back now
- STILL LOOKING FOR WORK PLS
- Magic/More Magic

That is all.

Dad: *down hall* -hey mick- *turns into my room* “Mick? Where’s your car?”

Me: “Uh … I have both sets of keys right here.”
*..oh except for the service set..*
“Did mom take it in for serving?”

Dad: “She’s at work. Did Alyssa take it?”

Me: “Uh, I don’t think so.” *goes downstairs to check, sister is home* “You sure mom didn’t take it?”

Dad: “Her van isn’t here.” *takes me a few moments to recongize that one person can’t take two cars …*

Dad: “Mick, where’s your brother?”

Both: *heads upstairs to check in Sam’s room …*

No I’m Not kidding.

[Insert some laughs, some concerned, some can't believing this]

*dad and I agree to try and get him back as quickly as possible, texting him:*

Me via TXT: “Get back home before mom and dad find out. :p -Mick”

Sam via TXT: “Oh god.. That was fast. Dont tell! Im on my way home”

Me via TXT: “If you’re in any trouble, call me and i’ll pick ya up in dad’s car. -Mick”

30 minutes later

Bro returns, he dropped my keys somewhere, we find em, and now he’s being scoulded by dad. THE END!

Someone decided it’d be fun to hit me with a DDoS attack a few days ago.

800 mbit/s in, about 7 mins in length. Sadly for the attackers, it didn’t really do much, since the server sits on a gigabit in line anyway… The only interuption that occured was when the datacenter put the IP on a DDoS filter, which cut a irc connection for a few seconds.

First time I’m targeted specifically in a attack. Server’s been attacked on other IPs before [usually runescript's], but they hit my specific ip, hmm. ;p

So, for the attackers, what’d I do to deserve a few million packets?

Mmmmm, thought I’d post this, get some feedback:

Phlix.TV basically will take any non-flash video file [AVI/MOV/WMV/MP4/Etc, as long as it's on a http server], and convert it to flash on the fly, without [too] much wait [5-15 seconds at most if the server containing the video is slow]. No need to download some random codec to watch videos, as long as you can stand [slightly higher quality than normal] flash video.

Randomly got the idea with a chat with my mate, and a few others who seemed to be interested in the idea. Basically it’s to bridge the gap in the online media world, where there’s still non-flash files laying around. [And if you don't like flash video quality, well then don't use this!]

A weekend’s worth of coding; yay ffmpeg having most of the support that I needed already in, only had to hack in a few things. Thanks to TJ for abusing it to death to iron out some odd bugs. Fun times had by all.

Anyway, try it out, tell me what you think, and if something doesn’t work right, let me know.

Todo:
- Idiot proof the url box
- Support FTP
- Properly detect live-streams so it won’t try to cache them
- Provide Embed code
- Impliment h.264 support [mmmm more ffmpeg editing]
- Provide some notice when the source server is being head-achingly slow