Archive for August, 2005

New Google Translation - Hacker

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

As many of you would probably guess, Google’s website can be viewed in a variety of languages…116 in fact! Humorously, one of those languages is “Hacker”. You can search the “hacker” version of Google for yourself here.

AdSense (Advertisements) Removed

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Any regular visitors might have noticed something missing from this site over the past couple of days… ads. I had been using the Google AdSense program to deliver advertisements to visitors. Over the past couple months I had barely made enough money on this site to buy a lunch.
For awhile I thought to myself why [...]

Viruses Already Spreading to Infect Windows Vista

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Golly gee… take a look at this. There is already a virus loose in the wild that targets Windows Vista.
Most security experts had not expected to see a Windows Vista virus so soon, Hyppönen said. “The only surprise here is that it came so early,” he said. “It’s been eight days since the beta [...]

Security Vulnerability in WordPress Found

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

A security vulnerability has been found in the current (1.5.1.3 as of this writing) version of WordPress. You can read the details here, but keep in mind the following sentence from that advisory:
Successful exploitation requires that “register_globals” is enabled.
Most people will not have this enabled so thankfully this issue shouldn’t be a huge problem.

United to Offer WiFi in Flight

Friday, August 5th, 2005

Okay, so why am I posting this? Well, you see since my last name is Flight and I have a few WiFi projects in place this blog seems to take quite a few hits for people wanting news about WiFi aboard flights. So here is a little feed for those searching for it…
On May 26, [...]

GPS Review Blog Update

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

It has been one week since my new GPS Review website opened. Seven days ago I created the script that would feed Google updated XML sitemaps, submitted my site to MSN, Yahoo, and Google and blogged about it here. Now that it has been running for one week, here is an update.
I currently rank #1 [...]

Alexa Collecting Incorrect Contact Information, Feeding to Spammers?

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Hopefully the title caught your attention. I received an email today from an irate customer saying he has been receiving emails from people who think that he is the owner of one of my websites.
To make a long story short I tracked down the problem. It wasn’t a problem with the WHOIS information, but from [...]