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OMG was I hacked or is the hard disk just full

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Think we were hacked on Tongfamily at 5AM this morning. Found that we were stuck at the home page going to the WP install page. There are many notes about this, but it can happen because of a weak password on your FTP or your Wordpress admin accounts. I have both and have changed all [...]

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Audiobook Cd Backup with Max Mac Fission for splitting and MP3 Trimmer for joining

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

If you have a series of audiobook CDs that you want to backup. What is the easiest way to do it. Well, you can use iTunes to back it up. You want to set it to use very small files. I normally go to iTunes/Preferences/Advanced/Importing and set it to MP3, custom with 32Kbps and 24Khz [...]

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Bluehost and Wikka wiki Upload limits

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, there are a few limits I can see. First, Wikka Wiki has a 2MB limit, but it also looks like the underlying hosters has a 2MB limit as well. You have to change the php.ini files in the wiki /uploads directory to break this.
Bluehost= explains how to do this. Note that this thing is [...]

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Do Not Upgrade to your TomTom to 7.481

May 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I just updated to the latest version of the firmware and now the TomTom hangs when search for a POI. Tomtom Forums reports lots of these problems. Basically, when searching a POI, it hangs on “Wait a moment…” amd then when you try to Find, you get a grey screen.
The above was for the 920, [...]

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