Migrating from Livejournal.com to Dreamwidth.org (if you want to) Why you might want to migrate (an incomplete list of possible reasons)

• 2010-09-19: Thorfinn's post: Meme: Ace things about Dreamwidth.org
• 2010-09-10: Thorfinn's post: LiveJournal: FB Connect + Pingbacks - Why you might care or not, and why you can't comment on my LJ
• 2010-08-31: More ( Read more... )

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Hello, especially to anyone reading me who is on LiveJournal. LJ have recently started purging accounts that are idle inactive/suspended (Edited for accuracy).

This means that those account names can be claimed by people other than the original owner. (ETA: This has already been the case since 2005 with deleted accounts and renames, apparently, ( Read more... )

I bought a Drobo, and configured and formatted it last night. Copied the data from my previous external storage disk (which was failing with block errors). Plugged it into the back of the Airport Extreme, and voila, it's just working. Time Machine is happily grinding away doing its thing, and it's very nice knowing that we have 3TB of raid ( Read more... )

LJ-news: Media embedding change - important notice
DW-maintenance: LJ web security exploit

In short, LJ had a "cross site scripting hack" which infected a bunch of people's accounts. Check the LJ news post and verify you're okay if you're on LJ.

However, Dreamwidth wasn't vulnerable.

Yet another reason to Dump LJ in favour of DreamwidthETA: If ( Read more... )

Amongst a swathe of other "[Win]" security alerts from AusCERT, this one stands out:

AusCERT Security Bulletin: ESB-2009.1267 - ALERT [Win] Windows TCP/IP: Multiple vulnerabilitiesProduct: Windows TCP/IP ( Read more... )

Okay. I'm officially dumping LiveJournal - my paid account there will not be renewed, and my Dreamwidth account is now a paid account ( Read more... )