Strangely Perfect

Free Windows Defragmenter Search Take this for a scam and a half way of fixing the Google search results! Today I was looking for an old defrag program, but couldn’t remember the name – so I went to Google.  That’s the screenshot on the right. The second result looked promising.  After all, the text says, [...]

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 [...]

“So what?”  I hear you cry. Yeah well, I can understand.  Everyone knows YouTube and everyone has seen embedded videos on websites.  How it’s done doesn’t bother most people. WordPress have a default method of embedding.  The thing is, it may be better than it was 2 years ago when I started this lark, but [...]

Despite the best made plans and intentions, no security system is perfect. A massive recent security lapse means that (again!), the government’s continuing plans to implement ID Cards should be seriously examined. Not only have their own credentials at data security been demonstrated by themselves to be wholly inadequate (I’m thinking of the DVLA, MOD, [...]

In a follow up to my earlier post about the current rampant piece of malware, Computer Piracy on the High Seas,  I’ve found that the malware, variously called Downadup, Conficker, and Kido scans an in-built list of well-used passwords. So if your password is on this list, change it now! :-)   Ha Ha. 123 1234 [...]

As part of my day job, I get a (extremely valuable, it must be said, for which I’m very grateful) MSDN subscription. Recently, I’ve had trouble with Visual Studio.  It used to be 2005 and is now 2008.  They use the Team Foundation Server Developer Edition.  So I decided to re-install….  oh, dear. After a [...]

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 [...]

….That’s what I’ve determined empirically recently.  Matt’s (WordPress prime mover) post here and this article in the Guardian mention the various failings of CAPTCHA. It’s the kind of thing that’s dawned on me progressively and is the reason I don’t use Captcha any more.  I’ve tested it and in the WordPress plugins that use it, [...]

This is just a little follow up to and earlier post.  Secunia, in their latest weekly summary to me, state this: VIRUS ALERTS: During the past week Secunia collected 215 virus descriptions from the Antivirus vendors. However, none were deemed MEDIUM risk or higher according to the Secunia assessment scale. ==================================================== 3) This Weeks Top [...]

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 [...]

For the past few weeks I suppose everyone has had a bit of email spam with this in the “From” and “Subject”: msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: There then follows a sucker headline which is obviously pants.  They all have a spoofed link for http://breakingnews.msnbc.com which points to somewhere else, quite often a html document on the [...]

Following on from my recent Visual Studio training which will lead onto asp in my day job working for a company under the .nhs.uk domain name, it’s interesting to see some of the things that have been going on to make the system dead slow recently. NHS website affected by mass SQL ‘Asprox’ attack said [...]

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 [...]