Beware – IE security vulnerability

On August 22, 2005 by Anant With 0 Comments - Computers, Internet, Technology

Just follow these steps here in the order :-

1) Copy “any” text on to your clipboard

2) Click the following Link:

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Server troubles

On August 22, 2005 by Anant With 2 Comments - Blogging, Internet, Rambler, Rants, Technology

I was pissed yesterday. The blog database, which is intrinsic to the blog was not accessible for whole of yesterday (my time).

I get up yesterday morning and access the site and I am given a nice little error page by WordPress which states that the database is not accessible and I should check my username and password.

I contact the hosting service (Symonds.net) who replies that they have changed the server and that DNS changes take time to propagate. Bah.. He said things should be fine in about 2 hrs. I waited. And I waited some more while the blog was still not accessible.

I shot off a mail again and he replies that it’s *my* ISP’s fault since they are not flushing their DNS cache and updating them.

So I waited. Then it struck me that the god darn server was accessible but only the database was not which would be local for the blog and hence DNS issues dont even come into the picture.

I immediately sent him a mail telling this and he realised it about the same time too. So he manually went into the server and fixed the issue. It seems the DB package was broken after the upgrade in which some DB authentication always failed. Humph.. So much for DNS trouble.

WordPress 1.5.2

On August 19, 2005 by Anant With 2 Comments - Blogging, Rambler

I just upgraded to WordPress 1.5.2. It seems to have broken some things on the blog. Comments submission now leads to a blank page instead of returning to the post page.

Some of my plugins seem to have been broken too. They are not functionining correctly. I’ll have to sit through the plugins and sort them out. Arghh..

Rakshabhandan, Cold etc

On August 19, 2005 by Anant With 0 Comments - Yours Truly

Today is Rakshabhandan in which sister’s tie a thread on their brother’s wrists and the brother in turn pledges to protect her from any harm that might befall her. It is quite an important festival for us, for which my sister has come down here.

It also includes her first visit home after her wedding. Mom is very happy and spend the whole days with her.

My cold is worse now. It has turned into a throat infection too and my entire body hurts. I am thankful that today is a holiday otherwise I would never have been able to go to the office today.

And my back account is finally active. My first salary cheque was credit to the account yesterday so I can go and splurge now ;-)

General Rants and ravings

On August 17, 2005 by Anant With 0 Comments - Rants, Yours Truly

I got wet again today. It’s very frustrating. Just due to the rain, I am seriously considering ditching my bike and using some other means of transport :cry:

I think I am coming down with a cold. Scratch that. I _am_ down with a cold. My nose is getting blocked by the minute and my body is paining. :shock:

And my comp is being difficult. I wont boot my profile correctly all the time. It just freezes sometimes when I select my profile and I have to do a cold boot to start up windoze again.

I think I will go to sleep early today

IPOD Help

On August 17, 2005 by Anant With 6 Comments - Computers, Gadgets, Technology

I started using my Ipod yesterday but trouble struck at the second step. The installation, though a tad bit slow, completed smoothely. ITunes recognised my prized possesion :-D and gave me access to copy songs to it. But trouble struck at that point. It would not copy the songs according to the folders I had my music arranged in. So all my organisation right now lies to a waste.

I need to find out how to do that. Anyone have any ideas on how to achieve that?

Tech Support

On August 17, 2005 by Anant With 0 Comments - Uncategorized

This is a real funny comic strip. Do take a look at it and you will then know how the “Problem on your end” really started ;-)

Daily-Div

Ipod Finally in my hands

On August 16, 2005 by Anant With 2 Comments - Computers, Technology, Yours Truly

Yaaaaay.. Today is independence day and it turns out I finally got the object I desired the most for the past year or so.

An Apple Ipod A gift from my sister. She had been on her honeymoon for the past fortnight and a day before she was to return, I asked her to get me one. :-)

It’s a 20 GB model which can store about 5000 songs. Though I had asked for one with a mono display, it seems the color display has become the default and mono display production has been stopped. Good for me :-D
It is awesome and I just still cant believe that I got one.

Woo hoo