Category Archives: Web Hosting

Adventures in web hosting.

Rumors of the Sidekick’s death are not exaggerated

Posted on 10/11/2009 by Elliot Lee

Have you heard of the T-Mobile Sidekick? The Sidekick is now dead. From what I’m reading, everyone– yes, everyone– who uses a Sidekick was affected by a network outage that began on October 2nd. Some people reset their devices or … Continue reading →

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Hostorix: Never Fail Web Hosting?

Posted on 10/5/2007 by Elliot Lee

I’m here at BigSeminar X in Atlanta with Armand Morin, and he just launched his web hosting company, Hostorix. It looks pretty compelling: the promise of no downtime, CPanel with all the features– including Fantastico, and unlimited domains and databases, … Continue reading →

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Blake Ross is an inspiration

Posted on 8/22/2007 by Elliot Lee

As a Firefox Campus Rep, I get a box of Firefox goodies to use while promoting Firefox on the USC campus. A few days ago, I received a box for this year. It contains a book called Firefox for Dummies, … Continue reading →

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Unintentionally distributed badware “may harm your computer”

Posted on 8/3/2007 by Elliot Lee

Here’s an interesting blog post about a website which was hacked to distribute malware. This has also happened to me on my sites, and it’s a really insidious problem. More and more websites on the internet are dynamic. This typically … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.1.1 modified from original

Posted on 3/5/2007 by Elliot Lee

Someone somehow modified some downloads of WordPress 2.1.1, so Matt announced that they’re calling the entire version dangerous. I used to wonder why the 2.0 branch is still maintained at all, considering that 2.1 is out. Perhaps this is part … Continue reading →

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vBulletin Mass-Edit View Age, Sort Field, Sort Order?

Posted on 3/3/2007 by Elliot Lee

Is there any way to mass-edit these three fields for all forums? Default View Age (Default date cut-off for thread display) Default Sort Field Default Sort Order I’m manually going through and applying literally the exact same settings to every … Continue reading →

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vBulletin Edit Titles

Posted on 3/3/2007 by Elliot Lee

When you edit the first post of a topic in vBulletin, it doesn’t update the topic title, even if you update counters in the Maintenance section. One of the first posts I found on the subject was Bug with editing … Continue reading →

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Spammers are crafty, but silly too

Posted on 3/1/2007 by Elliot Lee

I’ve been struck by the stupidity of the spam I’m seeing. I see tons and tons of spam everyday, from comments on my blog, to posts on Google Community, to your typical email spam. The spam that’s hitting forums today … Continue reading →

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Firefox 2.0.0.2 Change Log

Posted on 2/26/2007 by Elliot Lee

When I fired up Firefox this evening, it installed a new update and brought me to this page. It was a very good and problem-free upgrade experience. It’s nice to see Firefox keeping on top of things, where Internet Explorer … Continue reading →

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