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Email Client I use as a Outlook Alternative? Thunderbird!

2012 March 31
by middlelord

I started using thunderbird more and more and began to swing away from outlook or live mail. I think it is by far a better email handling program

My WordPress got Hacked!!

2011 December 14
by middlelord

My WordPress got hacked today. This is a personal site that I use to post tips and fixes for various systems and programming languages. I found these log entries in my webhost log :

146.251.214.22 – - [14/Dec/2011:03:46:35 -0500] “GET /page/7 HTTP/1.1″ 200 27695 “http://www.bing.com/search?q=ip%3a67.23.239.244+wordpress&go=&filt=all&first=11&FORM=PERE” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0″
146.251.214.22 – - [14/Dec/2011:03:46:36 -0500] “GET /wp-content/themes/christmas-is-near/snow.js HTTP/1.1″ 200 3678 “http://techjunkie.tv/page/7″ “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0″
146.251.214.22 – - [14/Dec/2011:03:46:36 -0500] “GET /wp-content/themes/christmas-is-near/style.css HTTP/1.1″ 200 17347 “http://techjunkie.tv/page/7″ “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0″

I am following certain steps from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress in hope that my wordpress blog becomes more secure to help mitigate this problem.

I am posting all the steps I am taking in hopes that I am doing the correct thing and to make it easier available to help other WordPress Bloggers that might be new to WordPress as well not have this situation happen to them.

1. Rename the default account to something else. For ex: Admin or Administrator account renamed to “onlyIknow-name”

2. a password with atleast 20 characters

3. set the permissions on the wp-config file to “400″

4. got new secret keys from WordPress key generator

to be continued…

If you have any tips for me to help secure this site please submit a comment.

 

 

a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

2011 December 12
by middlelord

I got this error on my WordPress Blog:

404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

 

These are the steps for fixing it, go to your permalink settings on the Dashboard of your WordPress Blog.

Next copy the custom string that you already have set.

Then set it to Default.

Visit your website and the page should be there now.

I hope this is helpful.

Free Online URL Scraper

2011 September 10
by Scott Alvarino

Hi techies,

I just wanted for you all to try my URL scraper that will take you to a webpage with all the links that a website has. This site you enter can be google.com or just about any other site, but you do need the exact http address.

Here is the link to Free Url Scraper

How to disappear a Batch Script after running your Program

2011 July 29

Was up my techs, did you ever wonder how to make those old .bat files disappear by themselves so that the user would not have to close it themselve and maybe making a mistake and clicking on the shut down button!! Oh no yes that would be a disaster!! So yes the easiest thing just setup the script to clse the terminal window when it loads but after it opens the program. Here is what i have in my calculator.bat file:

start /b calc

Thats all just put that

start /b for start in background you got yourself the disappearing prompt :)

Let me know if this was helpful, the link to where I found this fix can be found here:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1717

 

 

SCOTT

http://twitter.com/scottalvarino