When a new account is created with cpanel (cpanel11 in my case) some folders and files appear in the root folder (public_html) and mostly people get confused that what are they really meant for? and what are they doing there. These folders include: vti_bin _private _vti_bin _vti_log _vti_pvt _vti_txt and a couple of files including: […]
How to use .htaccess on IIS (mod_rewrite for microsoft iis server)
Well at the first place, if you are using microsoft iis server, it should probably be for asp files probably! but if you are using it for php files, then there is pratically no point in using it! as there are far better and supported linux based servers presend, and even if you want to […]
The Pirate Bay Owners Prisoned – no more free downloads – Pay for monthly subscription based system coming soon
The Pirate Bay, undoubtly the largest bittorrent tracker of the world wide web, have been the savior of the needs of many around the globe until the things got really bad and its owners were sentenced to prison! Soon after this act, thePirateBay was acquired by a software company from Sweden for the sum of […]
[Solved – Error when upgrading from wordpress 2.8.1 to 2.8.2 or from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3]Incompatible archive PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure
While upgrading wordpress from 2.8.1 to 2.8.2 or 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 (or any other versions) i got this error saying: Upgrade WordPress Downloading update from https://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.2.zip / 2.8.3.zip Unpacking the update. Incompatible archive: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure Installation Failed With the release of wordpress 2.8 there is an error while installing some plugins […]
How to upgrade from WordPress 2.8.1 to WordPress 2.8.2 (manual and automatic upgrading of wordpress to latest version)
WordPress released WordPress 2.8.2 soon after releasing the WordPress version 2.8.1 Here we will discuss how to upgrade wordpress from version 2.8.1 to 2.8.2 automatically and then how to do the upgrade manually. First we will make sure how to backup the current WordPress 2.8.1 install before we move on to WordPress 2.8.1. Backup your […]
WordPress 2.8.2 released
WordPress 2.8.2 has been recently released by WordPress.org. It fixes a XSS vulnerability in WordPress. The vulnerability would allow a hacker / cracker to add exploit code to the comments author url, as the comment author url’s were not fully sanitized when displaying in the admin. This could be exploited to forexample redirecting the admin […]
facebook authentication error – you are not permitted to do that
Scenario: I was wandering around facebook today and while doing random stuff i saw this error on facebook saying: Authentication Failure You are not permitted to do that. Well i got this loss of permission and error of authentication failure by facebook in this situation: I was logged into facebook with my email id. I […]
Paypal Sandbox not working properly (register / login issue)
Today i checked paypal sandbox account i was not able to login. I tried forgot password link and it said that it cannot find the specified email address. Then i tried to register a new account at paypal sandbox https://sandbox.paypal.com/ but it didn’t send me any email to my email account. So was curious to […]
Forgot linksys router wrt54gr password / how to reset settings of the linksys wireless router
Well that day, just like any other day, I slept at night, tired and exhausted from the everyday work and modifications to nabtron without having any clue what’s going to happen to me in some time . . . I got visited by one of my “efficient” cousin and he tried connecting to my wifi […]
Linksys wrt54gr default username and password
If you have recently bought the linksys wrt54gr wireless router you can simply use this default user and pass for the router configuration page as follow. However, if you have forgotton the password that you have set previously, you need to reset your router settings first. To reset the router settins, please refer to the […]