DB problems fixed
My provider, 1111mb.com, which holds the blog, made an upgrade to the latest MySQL. This killed almost all sites which use PHP+MySQL for a couple of hours 🙂 Now seems to work, but slow as hell …
Registration finally fixed
Thanks to a benevolent user, timops96, I found and fixed an issue in WordPress’ registration function. It was using the mail() function of PHP which any decent webserver(+PHP) will deactivate it. I replaced it with smtpmail and did some additional tricks and now it seems to work. Have fun registering !
Flickr rulez
Lately, I have become another Flickr addicted. This happen before becoming a Pro. Pro is a paid account and I received it as a present for by birthday, from Mihaela (my wife). Each time I open my browser, my mouse goes automatically here: Comments On your Photos If I see comments, and I usually do, […]
Romania from an English perspective
Just read these articles: Where draughts are truly dangerous By Debbie Stowe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2005/08/16/exroman.xml Logic problems that test your patience in Romania By Debbie Stowe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2ICNE2BHCD5RHQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/global/2005/05/17/romex.xml I’ll comment later on them 🙂
Bringing down phishers
I wrote in the morning to this institution the message below. "Hi, Your website hosts a phishing site for Wachovia Bank. Please remove this path on your webserver: http://pastandfutureofmoney.nl/login/ssPageName=hhpayUSf&=user.... " Thank you. We will contact you as soon as possible. G. C. Nieuwland, PHvL And now the answer: Thank you for reporting this! We were […]
My new Zuiko 18-180 Lens
The image below is taken from www.olympus-europa.com The other images are made by myself.
MICO and VSTUDIO 2005
Or better to say … MICO against VSTUDIO 2005. We have so many headaches with this new compiler. Our code keeps crashing … the same code that used to work. I will have to install this VS to test it myself… beah … 🙁 Now I am working on the VCPROJ files for VS2003.
Paypal phishing w/o hosted HTML files
It is the first time I can see a phishing that doesn’t have a website to store the website ! This email came as a self sustained phishing solution. It is written in HTML and JS and it has a FORM whos action is POST to a website which saves the data. The submit button […]