May - 4th
What’s A Faster Way To Get A Virus Than Browsing Porn? That’s Right: The New Facebook
Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under bad research, blogthropology, coding, Facebook, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
Quit staring, it’s just a thumb. Facebook has never been known for it’s safety. It is a site designed so that the least Internet savvy people out there can sign up and network with millions of other people, both those they know and those they don’t, with only a minimal amount of technical know-how required [...]
Feb - 18th
As It Turns Out, WordPress Itself Is Not 100% GPL Compliant After All (And They Violate The MIT License As Well)
Posted at 9:52 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, Wordpress
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather interesting tidbit of information. I opened Twitter in the middle of a conversation between between Chip Bennett and Ben Cook, and I saw this tweet: Curiosity piqued, I dug back through the tweets until I found a link to the thread Ben was referring to. It turns [...]
Nov - 10th
Hacked on GoDaddy? I’ll Migrate You To Hostgator For Free
Posted at 12:07 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, Wordpress
Yet again, I am seeing a rising number of sites that are reporting getting hacked at GoDaddy. It is also no surprise to me that people are getting limited responses from them when they try and find out what is going on. The GoDaddy blog mentions nothing recently aside from when they were hacked 2 [...]
Sep - 9th
*Proof* That The New SEOmoz Tool Is At Least Half Accurate
Posted at 7:06 am | Filed Under bad research, coding, nerdiness, scams, SEO
There has been quite of bit of controversy over the past few days arising from the new LDA based tool recently released by SEOmoz. While there may have been some very well thought out, compelling arguments against giving this tool any credit whatsoever, I have to tell you that in my opinion no argument, no [...]
Aug - 23rd
Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth
Posted at 4:22 pm | Filed Under coding, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, search engines
Want to explore the entire planet from your computer? Normally all anyone wanting to do so would have to do would be to trot on over to Google Earth, download and install their application, and off globe trotting they could go. Today, unfortunately, those who do not already have the program installed are apparently out [...]
Jun - 14th
Rackspace Hacked Clients, Check Your Databases: WordPress “wp_optimize” Backdoor In wp_options Table
Posted at 8:16 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, how-to, nerdiness, Wordpress
Just finished cleaning up a hacked client whose website is hosted on Rackspace Cloud hosting. It is the second one within the past few weeks, although the first one was actually hosting on Laughing Squid, which happens to use Rackspace Cloud. I had discovered that there were a large number of people all on the [...]
May - 14th
GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?
Posted at 3:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, lackofmeds, nerdiness, Social Media, web design, Wordpress, WTF
Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDaddy has widened their scope in investigating what the underlying cause of these hacks are, initially they claimed that the issue [...]
May - 13th
Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision.
Posted at 10:04 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, Wordpress, WTF
One of the services I offer people is cleaning their WordPress installations of hacks and infections, mostly for those who might not have the time or technical expertise to follow my hacked WordPress cleaning guide. Therefore when something happens that increases the number of people getting hacked, such as when a new exploit is discovered, [...]
Mar - 18th
Test of WordPress’s Default Slug Redirect: 301 or 302?
Posted at 10:06 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, SEO, Wordpress
Just a quick test to see if WordPress by defaults redirects slug changes using a 301 or 302 redirect. The original url for this post is: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/test-of-wordpress-default-slug-redirect-301-or-302/ and I am going to change it to: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/wordpress-redirect-302-or-302/
Mar - 13th
Stray Leftover Hacked WordPress Database Entry: rzf.php
Posted at 11:27 am | Filed Under coding, how-to, Wordpress
I never use my uploads directory or WordPress’s built in media management here on Smackdown, instead preferring to upload and manually insert the html for images myself in my posts (I know, I am weird that way), but my friend Donna has when she has guest blogged here in the past. I therefore knew that [...]
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