First of all, let’s look at the hack. At this point I am unsure what exactly caused so many of my files to contain the odmarco string. It looks like quite some people on DreamHost got hit by this problem, so I am guessing a vulnerable script on one of their servers caused this. Now,…
Yes, I am talking here about the big problem over at DreamHost today , where just about every customer of theirs got billed incorrectly. The reason? Their billing application, which has been designed to be as fail-safe as possible, had been implemented in such a way that it was possible to re-bill customers as if…
Now that I have Trac working on DreamHost, I want to also get the trac-post-commit-hook working, so that commits will automatically show up in Trac. Using the default instructions unfortunately does not work fully, since the installation by DreamTracInstall which I wrote about earlier does some specific things (like installing a completely new Python environment)…
Installing Trac has been described as “hell”, “horrendous”, and other such wonderfully positive words. Especially on DreamHost, as I’ve understood from some people. But one of the best things of DreamHost is their community. DreamHost manages an extensive wiki, full of useful information, for instance on the topic of installing Trac. But aside from information,…