Quote from: ergophobe on December 09, 2010, 05:05:50 PM
... there had to be some CVS/SVN/git solution for Wordpress, but I had never heard of any. Thanks!

You can use plain old subversion to manage WordPress installs:

Install:
svn checkout http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0.4/ . (replacing 3.0.4 with current version)

Upgrade:
svn switch http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0.4/

I don't do WordPress although I've dabbled with it in the past. The thing I hate about WordPress is that it seems to have some fundamental security issues, serious bugs just keep occurring again and again. Its profile is too high, its footprint is too visible and it is way too much of a hacker target.

Yeah, I saw that - but the host is claiming that the exploit is "newer than the most recent version of ProFTPD", so even the uncompromised code isn't safe according to them. They've re-established FTP on their servers, but I don't know if they've patched ProFTPD themselves or if they've switched to a different FTP daemon (I don't have FTP available on my server).

One of my hosts is claiming that their ProFTPD install was hacked last night, and that the ProFTPD website itself was distributing a compromised version:

Quote...we discovered that the date of the exploit script used was newer than the most recent version of ProFTPD, and not only that, but also that the ProFTPD distribution server itself had also recently been compromised and has been distributing infected versions...

I'm not directly affected as I've got the FTP daemon disabled on everything, and I guess that most here will be using ssh instead of FTP as well. But if not, you should probably check and shut off FTP if you are running ProFTPD until the facts are clearer.

Another great Hans Rosling video is this one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html

This one has a great ending too

If I understand correctly, this already exists - go to profile, then "Look and Layout Preferences", select "Show quick-moderation on message index as" and choose "checkboxes" - for each forum index, you get a checkbox on the right with a dropdown option underneath (mark selected read). Is that what you're looking for?

nick: encyclo, real name: Richard, location: Canada (Quebec).

I'm another wmw refugee (thanks to bill for the invite!), was mod/admin there from 2005-2009, I bailed out not long after Woz left. I currently combine a corporate day job with being a night owl working on my own sites.