Adam Caudill

Starting Over

This is the fifth major starting-over of my personal site. This one is different though, this time I’m really starting over. Very little of what you see here is from my older sites. I felt it was time for a clean break, and this is part of it.

This is a blend of a professional & personal blog, you’ll see a dynamic mix of connect (or basically: whatever strikes my fancy). This is a change from the past, where I committed to be one or the other, but not both. I’ll keep this short, as there’s more to be told later, but this is just to let you all know, I’m still alive.

Glue & Reuse

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

On an average day, I take about 10 screenshots, and upload them to my FTP server. Now, this is easy enough, but it does take a minute, let’s break down the process:

• Press Alt+PrtScr.
• Go to the start menu, and use the “Run” command to open mspaint.
• Paste (and crop if needed).
• Save the image.
• Find the image.
• Open FTP program and upload the file.

Now, while that’s not hard, doing it a dozen times a day is annoying. So I decided to find a better way, or in this case, build a better way. Here’s what I set out to build:

Visual Studio 2005 Released!

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 has now been released to MSDN Subscribers. This is an unannounced, though not unexpected release, as it’s been predicted by a number of blogs recently. Only one small problem: The MSDN site is so busy it’s next to impossible to get any files to download. I’m going to keep trying, though I’m not too certain as to when I’ll get in.

Internet Explorer 7 (Beta 1)

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

When I logged into my MSDN account recently, I found the most interesting thing: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1. I just couldn’t resist installing it on my development system. While the interface still needs work, it seems fairly stable for a beta. They have finally added support for tabbed browsing – something that helped Firefox quickly gain market share. Also new is the much hyped Phishing Filter, in my rather limited testing, it seems to be an interesting feature, though not nearly as revolutionary as some have said.

OpenIRCNet (RandomIRC) Link Policy Draft

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

Here is a draft update for the linking requirements for the OpenIRC Network, please feel free to review this and post your comments. (This is mainly for the staff of OpenIRC)

Linking to OpenIRCNet

We are always looking for new servers to add to the family, but linking a new server is a serious matter, as there are a number of issues are involved. To walk you through the process we have prepared this document to assist you.

4HowTo reaches 30,000 & vArticles dev.2

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

As I’ve continued importing data, 4HowTo.com has now passed 30,000 articles in its database. Much as I’ve expected, the software is still stable and working normally, all seems to be scaling rather nicely. Hopefully I’ll get all of the data imported in the next week, though importing over 100,000 lines of SQL is rather time consuming.

vArticles

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

vArticles

A former Imspire project, this is now the make-shift home for vArticles, a articles management system written in PHP & designed for Apache & MySQL. Running on both Windows & Linux systems, and based on open-source servers, vArticles gives a great deal of flexibility while remaining true to the original concept of a lite, fast processing CMS.

Back From New York

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

Wow, the summer’s over and I’m finally home!

After spending the last five months in New York (quite a difference from my native Florida), I’ve finally made it back home. Much has happened while I’ve been away, not the least of which is the death of Imspire and a few related projects. While giving up on these dreams has been difficult, I believe the result will be for the best.

Still using AWStats?

This post was imported from an old blog archive, and predates the creation of AdamCaudill.com.

If you’re using AWStats v5.7 – 6.2, you’re life just got even worse than it was.

As you should know, those version are vulnerable to a now widely known exploit that gives an attacker your server, now here’s where it gets even worse: There’s a new exploit floating around that works on not one, but all three of the methods being used.