Category Archives: General

.US domain name registration for $2.99 per year at 1and1

July 23, 2008 – 6:51 pm

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 […]

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Google to buy Digg.com for “about” $200M - Google achetera Digg pour $200M

July 22, 2008 – 7:33 pm

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 […]

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How to remove “Powered by Invision Power Board” from HTML page title in IPB - not copyright removal

July 22, 2008 – 6:45 pm

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 […]

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ScotiaBank phishing email attempt with link to scholaris.pl domain

July 20, 2008 – 4:13 pm

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 […]

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WordPress error message : Call to undefined function: ctype_digit() in /wordpress/wp-includes/link-template.php - bug fix here

July 19, 2008 – 5:53 pm

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 […]

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