Tech, filmmaking, & thoughts.
boomshadow
A linux web hosting administrator, a professional production sound man, and a renegade cop without nothing left to lose.... Ok, that last part is made up.
Posts by boomshadow
How to install Memcached
Feb 8th
This guide will help you setup Memcached on a CentOS server.
What is cachingBefore diving into Memcache specifically, let’s take a step back. What is caching? Why should you care and why should you use it? Caching is used for two very important reasons: to speed up the delivery of the pages and to alleviate system resources. Caching is used to speed up dynamic sites; database driven sites will benefit most form caching. Think about a WordPress site. Each page you visit is not an actually file, but rather an amalgamation of the theme, widgets, posts, footers, headers, etc… Each More >
Spoofed Bingbot attacks against WP
Feb 2nd
#Updates #02/04/12 – Revised wording to reinforce Bing’s perspective #02/02/12 – Modified block code to identify bingbot as ‘badbingbot’ in case ‘bingbot’ is already being used somewhere
In the last 24 hours, I have seen a large scale attack on the admin logins for thousands of WordPress sites. The attackers are using the User Agent ‘Bingbot’. Bingbot certainly is NOT the culprit in these attacks, but is, unfortunately, being spoofed. These spoofing bots are attacking the wp-admin page. So far, I have only seen this affect WP Mage and Mage Monster users.
A brute force attack on any login is certainly undesirable; you More >
SOPA/PIPA – Join the Fight
Jan 20th
There are two very important pieces of legislature that is being considered by Congress: SOPA & PIPA. These bills are terrible in that they will irrevocably harm Internet freedom. I would go into more detail here, but I think a visual aid is a far better tool. This is a video I directed to help combat these bills. Made for StopTheWall.us via Engine Advocacy and Christian Dawson
Animation: Brian & Chris Pennington w/ DUO Media Productions Writers: Christian Dawson, Thomas Wilson, and myself Sound: DUO Media & Sean Richwine Directed by: Me (Boom Shadow)
Auto fix for file permissions and ownership
Oct 22nd
#Updates: #01/26/2012 | New feature rich script written by Colin R.
suPHP and FastCGI require files and folders to have a specific set of permissions/ownership from other handlers. Without these permissions set you will see a lot of errors such as: “403 Forbidden”, “500 Internal Server Error”, or simply generic errors that commonly have the word ‘permission’ in them.
It can be very time consuming to track down and check file permissions across a whole server. Luckily, fixing this on a cPanel box can be scripted. This gives us a quick and very easy script you can wget to any cPanel server. More >
The beauty of sequenced sound
Apr 17th
While perusing my friend Rob’s tumbl, I saw this wonderful sound matrix program called “ToneMatrix”. Since then, I have seen this reposted many times on tumblr and Facebook. If for nothing more than archival sake (in case the original URL ever goes down), I’m posting/hosting it here.
Its pretty easy: Simply click on some squares to get the music started. You can hold down the mouse and drag across the screen. Click on a square again to turn it off. Press the ‘space bar’ to clear. You can copy/paste your current pattern by right clicking.
The link to the original page is More >
