You are ready to broadcast now. Click “My Shows” at the top pf the UStream.tv window
Open your blog page if you want to test the view delay. I would not recommend doing this on a live broadcast, you will be distracted by the delay and the overlapping sound.
Click “Broadcast Now”
Clcik “Start Broadcasting” to broadcast. This will not save your broadcast unless you also click “Start Recording”
When your broadcast is complete remember to click stop. At this time you will have the opportunity to save your recording or delete it.
I hope this was helpful to everyone. Feel free to ask questions if you need further explanation on one of the steps above.
After Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account got hacked, I have been asked for tips for online password security. Here are my basic tips:
Don’t use your email password on other websites
Turn off network/file sharing on your laptop while traveling
Password tips
Do not use your address
Do not use dictionary words
Do not use yours or a family members name
Do not use your birthdate, anniversary date, etc.
Use a mix of Upper and Lower case letters
Replace vowels with numbers (not all of them)
1 for i
0 for o
3 for e
4 for a
Add a number to the end of the password
Make it at least 8 characters long
Password Suggestions
Use the first letter of each word of your favorite book
Use the first letter of each word of a famous quote
Take part of 2 words and put them together, like the first 4 letters of a childhood nickname and the last 4 of your pets name
Change your password every 30-45 days
UPDATE: This section was added since the revelation that the security questions were used to reset the password. The are tips to help with security questions.
Always create a custom question if available
DO NOT use information that is public knowledge, like birth city or your home town.
Most sites allow multiple questions, if so mix up the answers, i.e. use the answer for question 2 for question 1, etc.
Add a number sequence to your answer
Gov. Palin used her high school name for where she met her spouse. This was easy to guess since it was public knowledge. A suggestion for this would be to use something like the time of day, or the exact date instead.
You want to make the security questions difficult to guess while easy to remember. It’s your life so you know the details, use them to protect yourself. Generalities will leave you vulnerable.
Hope this helps you and always be very careful online. Remember, if you put it online, there is virtually no way to be 100% safe from prying eyes.
I had one of my Joomla sites get hacked last night. It was on Joomla 1.5.3. The hacker only changed the front page and did not get to the database or other websites on the server thankfully. If you have Joomla installed please update your site immediately to the 1.5.6 Security Release.
See the Joomla Security Blog to review details of the flaw. Basically, someone get the password for the first user in the list. If that use is still the admin user or if they can guess the username of that first user, you are hacked.
“The only way they can get their jobs done is to collaborate via a virtual office and to get the information via AKO,” Noble said. Project members collaborate via virtual meetings, file sharing, community pages and Web pages dedicated to their parts of the program, Noble said. “We already have video, blogging and threaded discussions, and we are going to add other features like wikis,” Noble said. One of the most influential Web 2.0 information-sharing projects in the military and intelligence communities has been the Intellipedia project, which uses wiki technology as the basis of intelligence information sharing.
With all the disparate systems the governmental departments use, wikis and other web 2.0 technologies are great avenues for them to start standardizing. Standardization lowers cost in both training and information sharing. The addition of using Open Source technologies will also help keep costs down elminating the need for yearly maintenance fees. We should encourage more governmental agencies to use open source technoligies. Most are very resistent for a multitude of reasons. The largest reason I have seen is they are afraid of change. By keeping the same technologies that have been used for years, you never have to learn anything new; you maintian job security; and you keep your budget artifically inflated due to the maintenance costs.
I would like to give you some things to think about with your web presence. The first thing is to determine your web address or domain name. The importance of this can not be underestimated in this Internet connected world. The name should be easy to remember and it should be available as a domain name. In addition, make sure the .com, .net. and the .org at a minimum are available. You should consider the .info and .name as well if this is for a business or a political campaign. Your goal is to make a memorable domain. Buying multiple extensions helps protect your domain identity.
Acronyms can be used as well, but again, make sure the full domain is available. One of the main reasons this is important is that your political adversaries will buy the domain name if you don’t. They will then use this to circumvent and distort your message and efforts by stealing your visitors.
The next step is to make use of your entire domain identity. You do this by pointing each extension to your main site URL. You can do this with the following steps.
Choose which extension will be your main URL. Most will be the .com extension unless you are an organization, then choose .org. this example use .com as the main url
Park the secondary extensions on top of you main domain. This is done via your hosting company.
.htaccess specifics (Save a copy of your .htaccess file before making any changes just in case something goes wrong
Wordpress Blog Example (assuming name permalinks being used)
Mediawiki Example (assuming name permalinks being used)
Make all links remove the www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^yourdomain\.com
Make all .org extensions become .com
RewriteCond !^yourdomain\.org !^yourdomain\.com
Make all .net extensions become .com
RewriteCond !^yourdomain\.net !^yourdomain\.com
Repeat for all other extensions
There are couple of benefits to following these steps besides protecting your domain identity. The first is that it allows people who forget which domain extension to use to still get to your site. Second, all the different extensions now get counted as 1 by Google and other search engines.
I’ve answered this question a few times now, so I thought I’d add layout the instructions here. I will focus on the uploading of images and linking them while you are writing the post.
Before starting though, there is already a very good video showing this process on Youtube.
Just below the writing window you’ll see the following for uploading images.
Click Browse and locate the file on your computer you want to upload. Once you have chosen the file, enter its title and description. Make the title descriptive as well so this image will be easier to find later if you want to use it again. No click the Upload button. You will see the following in the upload area when it is finished.
You are now ready to add the image to your post. Click the “Send to editor” button and the code for the image is placed in the writing area.
Do you want to add a user to your wordpress blog? Here are the basic instructions for doing this in Wordpress 2.3:
Login to your control panel
Click Users
Scroll down to Add User From Community as shown below
Fill in the users email address
Change the dropdown box to the level of authority you want the new user to have. I have a brief description below. For a full comparison of user roles see the Wordpress description.
Subscriber – Cannot do anything but read just like a normal visitor
Contributor – Write posts but cannot publish them
Author – Can write and publish posts
Editor – Same as author and can change categories, moderate comments, edit other users posts
The above error is appears to be a common occurrence when you upgrade your Mediawiki installation from version 1.11 to 1.12. To fix this you need to have your system administrator do the following:
yum -y install php-xml
service httpd restart
The installs the XML modules into PHP. Restarting httpd allows the web server, in this case Apache, to load the new modules.
This procedure is for the more experienced since you will have to directly edit PHP code to do this filtering. Here are the steps to filter offensive or spam keywords inside the wordpress loop: (more…)
Here are the steps to filter out a registered blog that you now longer want appearing in the syndicated feed list (We are using FeedWordPress to syndicate our feeds): (more…)
