Ok, so I have been debugging a Perl application that I wrote about six months ago. Basically it creates some meta data and copies files to other user accounts using SSH. For file transfer it uses File::RsyncP and for remote control it uses Net::SSH::Perl. Some times I get the error message Could not dupe: Bad [...]

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WordPress is breached, again. I guess I run an unsecure version of WordPress, but I’m not sure. All I am told is that i don’t runt he latest version of WordPress and that I should upgrade, because upgrading is easy. No, it’s not easy. I keep history of my webpage in Subversion, so every time [...]

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WordPress is slow. Really slow. It is bad coded, I know because I have done a lot of plugin development and even more debugging of the WordPress core code. The blog entry 5 Essential Tips for Overcoming WordPress 2.8 Performance Problems describes some severe issues that WordPress blogs has, especially regarding bad performance. In short: [...]

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WWW::Opentracker::Stats is a Perl library for retrieving and parsing statistics from the BitTorrent tracker opentracker. Opentracker provides web services for various statistics, such as the current number of peers, seeders and complete downloads for each torrent. Opentracker is a robust and fast bittorrent tracker. It does not store anything on your disks while running, all [...]

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Oracle Weblogic (former BEA Weblogic) enforces a security model by default that is unhealthy for developers writing REST web services or other kinds of web applications using HTTP Authentication for security. By default, when sending an HTTP Authentication header, Weblogic will check its own security realms for users matching the username and password. If there [...]

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