Strangely Perfect

Introduction A few days ago I got hacked.  I quickly ripped out a heap of dodgy files left by the hackers but for some days now, Firefox, my browser, while viewing pages on this website, has been saying that it’s “downloading data from tructuyenso.vn… “. .htaccess This, of course, was not actually happening, as I’ve put [...]

My host, Site5.com, has kindly told me that this site (and others of mine) will be off-line from tonight for 3 hours from 07 Sep 2011 23:00 GMT/UTC until 08 Sep 2011 02:00 GMT/UTC.  (I’ve had to convert this from the email which is CDT specific…) This is due to an upgrade of the MySQL [...]

Introduction An unfortunate consequence of posting stuff online is that you enable your ‘work’, ‘your words of wisdom’, your ‘copyright’ or your petty scrawlings (choose which you think is the most appropriate), to the world as as such, it’s freely copyable. My website is proudly running on WordPress sat on a standard shared hosting LAMP [...]

I’m looking at getting a new host for (at some of) my domains. ixWebHosting who I’ve used for some time, keep falling over and I’m getting a bit fed up with apologetic support ticket replies and no change in service.  For about a year they were quite reasonable but since the server move out of [...]

I’ve got a weird problem with my internet access. I can access any website except my own, like this one! Specifically, all my domains hosted at ixWebhosting, I can’t see from my PC or any other in the house using any browser. I can access my domain host’s control panel, but bizarrely, the File Manager [...]

Over the last day, my sites have been really slow and twice to my knowledge have tripped out.  I’ve been getting a mysql error message like so when I try to resolve the problem in phpAdmin; MySQL: ERROR 1040: Too many connections I tried hosting chat support (as I’m in a hurry) but the connection [...]

This site is set up using blogging software called WordPress. It’s hosted on my dedicated hosting solution ixWebHosting in Kentucky, USA. For this, they give me several unique IP addresses, a shed load of email, database and FTP accounts as well as up-to-date Apache, php and MySQL installations. There are other extras too – check [...]

I’ve had some site clean-ups getting rid of duff links and links to picture and articles that no longer exist on both the Crawling Chaos site and my Strangely Perfect blog. There were hundreds! They are all based on WordPress with a MySQL database backend and publicly available themes which I’ve twiddled a bit. This [...]

Hi Constance. You are lucky to get through – you nearly went into the automatic de-spammer with a subject heading of “Greetings and Intro”!!!Your family history is interesting. Trouble is, everyone in England is related to someone – especially in Somerset! They pulled a body out of the bog near here, pre-Stonehenge, and the DNA [...]

As part of an update to a page, I found that links from the posts weren’t appearing properly on the lyrics page. I’ve put the old lyrics page back, even though I didn’t want to use it. The reason for this is that I can’t get anchors to work on it like they do on [...]