malformed.org does the blog thing

When people who would otherwise like to be known as professionals (IE they are charging money for a script and/or services) tell you that their software needs register_globals (in php) to be enabled, it means that they can’t code their way out of a wet paper bag.
It takes like 30 seconds to change all of […]

Dupes come up sometimes, but usually they’re more than one story apart.

I mean, come on. Only 4 hours apart, if cowboyneal had even looked at the main page he would have seen it.

The docs for zoneminder are pretty good, but I have a couple issues when I’m getting it going and I may as well put it here for the next time I have to deal with it.
My current config line:
./configure –with-webdir=/var/www/zm.malformed.org/ –with-cgidir=/var/www/zm.malformed.org/cgi-bin/ –with-mysql=/usr/ –with-webuser=www-data –with-webgroup=www-data –with-ffmpeg=/usr/local/ –with-lame=/usr/
In Zoneminder 1.21.4 the schema doesn’t seem to be correct […]

Like many hosting companies (although many won’t admit it), our customers often have problems with their accounts being compromised. 99% of the time this is because they were running a 3rd party script with a significant security flaw in it. The worst are the 3rd party billing scripts, sometimes people who compromise the […]

Just because I manage DNS for domains that get millions of requests per day doesn’t mean I want to talk to your sales people all the time about your product.
I find your service to be unreliable and expensive, I don’t want anything to do with it, so please go away.