Robin Majumdar 2.0

1and1 is the German hosting company that roared into the US market a couple of years ago with extremely aggressive pricing on a wide range of web hosting and domain registration options.

I’ve found their web hosting (in the past) to be clunky - ok, maybe I am not a big fan of graphical hosting interfaces à la cPanel and WHM , but I digress.

They have a pretty hot sale on .US domain name registration for .US domains at $2.99 per year.

Well, Michael Arrington is reporting over at TechCrunch that several inside sources at both Google and Digg are reviving the rumour mill that GOOG is digging Kevin Rose’s hugely popular (and often much-hated) Digg.com.

Apparently, the price is said to be in the $200M range…. and is within 2 weeks of being announced.

I’m surprised a bit at the dollar number and I think it isn’t so much for the intellectual property (err, Digg algorithms) but for the huge user base and very sticky audience that Digg enjoys.

Will Kevin Rose be moving to the GooglePlex?

Comme on dit en français: à suivre.

OK, I often get asked this over and over by people running sites based on Invision Power Board. It is specifically allowed to remove the “Powered by Invision Power Board” text from the HTML title tag - the title tag is dynamically generated usually with the Forum name, and sometimes followed by the topic title.

It’s important to note that this has nothing to do with the copyright removal, which requires payment to IPS.

While there are ways to remove the dynamic title variable from the IPB ACP, this is *not* recommended as having a static title tag will hurt your SEO efforts.

To remove the “Powered by Invision Power Board” text in IPB 2.3.x (and most earlier versions) you need to edit the /forums/sources/action_public/boards.php file.

At around line 190 in that file, there is the following bit of code:

190: $cp = " (Powered by Invision Power Board)";

Do not delete that line! Instead you could change it to:

190: $cp = "";

Well this is one of the first ScotiaBank phishing email attempts I have received:

Dear Customer,

As part of our strict commitment to online security, we automatically terminate your secure
online session after an extended period of inactivity. This prevents unauthorized users from
accessing your account information,It’s just one of the many ways we strive to protect you
and your personal information online.

To return to your online session normally we are necessitating a verification process on your account
as an added measure to ensuring adequate security on your access online. Log in your access to complete
the verification process and ensure you fill in the required information. Sign-On to Scotia OnLine .

We are indeed sorry for the inconveniencies we have caused you, but also remember
that as a Scotiabank customer, your security remains our greatest priority.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Account Security Dept.
ScotiaBank.
________________________________________

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement,& Scotia Bank will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

The “Sign-On to Scotia OnLine” is a hyperlink to http://sp2lancut.scholaris.pl/mambots/editors/scotiaonline.htm

The sad part is that there still plenty of people being taken in by these phishing scams…

If you use WordPress 2.5 or (gasp) earlier, you may encounter an error message “Call To Undefined Function: ctype_digit()” when you try to upload and attach an image to your post from inside the post editor.

More specifically, the bug will be something along the lines of :

PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function: ctype_digit() in /wordpress/wp-includes/link-template.php …

This is a known bug in WP 2.5, and obviously the most relevant solution is to upgrade to WordPress 2.6 which at this point is the latest stable release.

If you can’t upgrade for whatever reason (laziness doesn’t count) then you should be able to fix the image or photo upload issue by downloading a fresh copy of the link-template.php file which contains the bug fix for the ctype_digit() error. That preceding link, by the way, is to the file from the official WordPress file download link … that being said, always make sure you have a full backup available!