etch sources list …
Well, it's already April, 2011 and since Feb 2010, the Debian Etch was no longer supported. Still, I have few machines running Etch and trying to install additional software proved impossible? Why, well source list is not correct!
First link from the Google search showed following page... and following his instruction I've added (and not ass) this below sources in to your sources.list file.
# vim /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install
Then my apt was happy again... for now... until we have to upgrade...
WordPress Security plugins
Reading from my Google reader today, I found out that WordPress.com was hacked. Well, anything is hackable, as long as you have dedication and time. Me? I don't care to hack, too much effort... hard enough to get by with the daily grind... but that got me thinking... is this blog safe? I mean, it's for fun and all, but I wouldn't like some creepy tween kid trying to prod at my posts and pics... and god forbid, post something incriminating against me 
So I've searched around and found few plugins that would be helpful in my quest to secure this site...
BulletProof Security: As the name suggests it boasts of jam packed security options but I found the whole interface little busy and I don't like busy ... well... even though this package offers all of the security options under the sun for WordPress.. I like simpler design/interface, that's why I've decided on ...
Better WP Security: How is it better? It appears to provide most of the features that the BulletProof has to offer and little simpler interface (at least that's what I like to believe)... and it's installed, activated and now I'm in business... I didn't turn on all of the features that this beast has to offer, but the ones that I think were essential to the security of the site is on... now I can rest in peace 
There are many other plugins out there and I'm sure they also do offer many options in it, but then again, this isn't really popular blog... and I'm not sure if anyone out there will just stumble onto this site just to cause havoc... so for now... I'm okay with what I got...
WordPress, new host, and plug-ins oh my!
It's been four months since my last post. Few things had to change. A new hosting company, upgrade to WordPress and new plugins. My previous hosting company 'godaddy.com' seemed to be owned by red neck CEO (Bob Parsons) who takes African safari hunting trips to kill elephants and tries to disguise as a humanitarian mission to feed the local tribe elephant meat? Well that's not entirely the reason for my move but it did put an icing on the cake. On ward to 1 and 1. Though I don't like giant companies, 1 and 1 proved to be faster with better customer support.
The move was done as well as the domain migration which took out the majority of my time. (The whole 90 day wait time for domain exchange to happen on top of the security lock that was put on my domains was an interesting experience to go through to say the least)
Along the way I have upgraded my WordPress to the latest 3.1.1 which was actually 3.0 when all of this started. Since then, WordPress has been turning more and more into a full CMS solution, thought it was already a quite capable CMS to begin with. Also I have tested and tried out few interesting plugins... So I thought I mention what's under the hood...
Akismet: Protection from spam in comments and trackback. I'm not sure why this isn't installed on all of the packages of WordPress install.
All in One SEO Pack: SEO plugin solution for WordPress. Just installed it, so not too sure how effective this will be.
DBC Backup: Backup solution using cron. Set it once and forget it.... until your site gets hacked and have to revive it form the dead.
Fast Secure Contact Form: Contact form, secure. Just in case you need to find out what your visitor wants to say to you, but don't want to let them know of your true email address
Select Google XML Sitemaps: Another SEO improvement plugin to have your site get better indexing.
Hello Dolly: I forgot to delete this...
W3 Total Cache: Helps to improve the performance of your site by caching pages, objects, and more...
WassUp: Not budwiser commercial, it is a traffic analyzer, might come in handy when you are trying to find out who's looking at your site.
Wickett Twitter Widget: Don't tweet much, but I thought it was interesting... having hard enough time trying to write something on this blog...
WordPress Importer: In case I wanted to import things from my other blog(s)...
WPtouch: Turns my blog / site into mobile version! Wow wee...
For now that's all I can handle in an hour... maybe when I get more time later, I'll test out some of the other security plugins...