Personals

Upgrade to version 3

yes !!! after my blog has been hacked by some cracker, i finally upgrade my WordPress based blog to version 3.0. I think anyone should upgrade too as soon as possible to avoid further damage to your blog :D

my blog has been hacked !!!

yes.. my blog has been hacked !! i thought my blog isn’t important enough to be hacked, but it happened..
i notice someone has hacked into my blog after Google made my blog marked as “Suspicious Website”. I try to open the source code of my blog and i see some 64bit encoded php codes at the top of many files.. Simply removing and replacing all the files and upgrade all the database make my blog now on version 3 of WordPress

Thanks for the cracker..it reminds me again everything is not secure even for an infamous blog like mine :)

Update again : WordPress 2.8.6

after blog walking to gadgetboi, apparently he came to visit my post, i must say its a fast respon bro :D if not approving your comment i might not open my blog again (due to work :-( ) and wut do u know.. wordpress already release a new version (although its minor), i think it would be a good thing to update juz for precaution :)

I don’t know bout  others, but i usually update my wordpress installation by download the whole package and replacing all the files, since this is minor update i think i would go for automatic update now :)

Hope it runs smoothly.

Upgrading to wordpress 2.8.4

Well..after long time not updating my blog content n the wordpress CMS, finally upgrade my wordpress to version 2.8.4.

Lots of security hole announced. Even though i doubt that anyone wants to hack my blog coz its not famous enough :) ) :P , i think precautions is better than regretion right? hehehehehe…

I think im gonna continue watching Alexander the movie..

Yahoo! finally decided to close GeoCities!

Yap..First I read about this on an Indonesian php programmer mailing list, then i try to check the validity of that news. When i tried to open my account on geocities (every user on yahoo can register easily for geocities hosting account), it has notifications like this :

Important Announcement

After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year.

You can continue enjoying your GeoCities service until then — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We’ll share more details this summer. For now, please visit the help center for more information.

I am amazed to read that geocities was acquired for $3.6 billion in 1999, but finally the nature of internet business (i think not only internet but the nature of business) when something can’t produce more or less profitable than it cost then any company will close it down. That happens too to geocities.
I still remember the early age’s I’m introduced with internet on the year 1999, Geocities is the only free hosting I know and I made it as my first online site for HTML lessons. Until late 2005 I can still find some pages contain files to download, especially people who are too lazy to put files on files sharing service (since file sharing service has not been around until few years ago).
Well..I’m going to miss the geocities the old days it was famous :)

Tips : Work around for country traffic limit exceeded download at uploadbox.com

As an internet freak, my search and download activities from file hostings is a daily thing. Recently i got links to download from uploadbox.com, but wuts annoying me is i always get the message “The limit of traffic for your country is exceeded. Please retry later.” After thinking how to solve it using proxy connections, then i try something “stupid”, i clicked on the language settings on top of the page, change it to russian language and u know wut? voilaa…the button to download the file is enabled!!! i can download the file now :) i dont know bout visitors from other countries, but i think its worth to try ;)

Simple right?i’m very sleepy now, i think im gonna sleep.