Recent Posts Tagged With 'bugs'

• New Kind Of Comment Spam Targeting Wordpress

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 14:02 in technology, bugs, spam bots

  Today I discovered a new type of attempted comment spam targeting my Wordpress blog.  The spam bot managed to figure out a section of a legitimate comment and then immitate it and then append a spam link to the end.  Technically this is quite eas...

• Didier Drogba Ban A F****** Disgrace

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 03:57 in Games, current affairs, bugs, united kingdom

  The Chelsea hero is not out of the dog house yet.  Chelsea are likely to appeal after being handed a €100,000 fine (£85,000) by Uefa and longer than expected bans for Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa for the fracas at the end of the club’s C...

• The POP3 service could not create the mailbox because: The account already exists

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 15:22 in technology, bugs

  In Windows Server 2003 when configuing the POP email service you could get this error: The POP3 service could not create the mailbox because: The account already exists The error is caused if you delete a user (mailbox name) because Windows somehow t...

• Web Design Tutorial / Workshop: Google.com Makeover For Compliance With Web Standards

  Posted on Saturday August 2nd, 2008 at 07:56 in web design, bugs

  I have done many site re-designs with the aim of complying to web standards. However because they are commercial projects the details are not for public consumtion. Rather, for a quick demo and a kind of before and after look at how proper complian...

• Nuffnang Ad Units Not Working

  Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 01:10 in web design, bugs

  I’m having quite a bit of bother with Nuffnang adverts and I’m probably not alone in this.  First up if you are wondering why you are not making much money from the ads then one possible reason is that Nuffnang keeps serving them as popu...

• Wordpress Bug In “Subscribe To Comments” Plugin

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 04:23 in web design, open source, bugs

  There is a bug in the Wordpress plugin “Subscribe To Comments” whereby if you uncheck the option… Do a CSS “clear” on the subscription checkbox/message (uncheck this if the checkbox/message appears in a strange location ...

• Fix Wordpress Databases Infected With Spam Links By Automated Hacking Bots

  Posted on Wednesday June 25th, 2008 at 04:25 in web design, thailand, open source, bugs, spam bots

  Users of Wordpress 2.1 and possibly other versions have been the target of automated spam attacks - which are actually hacks against your site. The hacker has automatically targeted sites using 2.1 using a robot that exploits vulnerabilities in the ...

• Developing A Thai Text Sanitizer For Web Development

  Posted on Saturday April 26th, 2008 at 15:22 in web design, thailand, open source, bugs

  This blog post details the nature of problems when working with Thai text. Anyone that has ever worked with the Thai language in web development surely encountered problems entering Thai text into webpages - HTML, XHTML and even XML. The main proble...

• Hacking Drupal Project / Theme “Bluecurve” For Drupal 5.x

  Posted on Wednesday March 12th, 2008 at 04:55 in web design, open source, bugs

  This Drupal theme project was created for Drupal 6.x. In order to hack it to work with Drupal 5.x the following changes can be made to page.tpl.php…....