Apparently some self-proclaimed Turkish Muslim hacker hacked my utterly insignificant blog. This blog gets about 30 visitors a day, on a really good day. And I don’t know what the point of hacking this one. Who ever got in, messed up the admin accounts of the blog and changed the home page saying that he/she is Muslim and from Turkey. • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Backup & Restore, Hacked, Hacker, Restore, Security
Some news travel very fast. And some don’t. Even when both news is about the same thing. Sometimes you see news in big bold letters on the front page of multiple news papers. And few days later there is a small piece of writing in an inner page stating that the original news was reported incorrectly, which you never notice. • Read More »
Tags: CERN, CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso, Faster Than Light, FTL, Neutrino, OPERA, Particle Physics, Speed of Light, Speed of News, Tech
Indexers is a neat little feature that is available for objects in C#. But it would have been even neater same support was there for properties as well. But all is not lost because if you spend little time getting your hands dirty you can actually implement indexed properties. All you got to do is • Read More »
Tags: C-Sharp, CS, Indexed Property, IndexedProperty, Indexer, Property
Until recently my wife was using a Nokia E75. Which is a fine phone when it comes to the specs and the looks but if you drop it, its going to be a few thousand rupees worth of repair. A small drop can break some part of the housing, screen, and ribbon cable. Just to • Read More »
Tags: Android, Camera Phone, Nokia, Nokia 3310, Nokia E71, Nokia E75, QWERTY, Red, Smart Phone, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V, Xperia Mini Pro, Xperia Neo, Xperia Pro
For those who use Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Google, SOPA/PIPA is not news any more. I am not going to describe those again as you can find all about its good, bad, and ugliness by just searching for those two horrible acronyms. Piracy is a problem for any industry I am not trying to defend it. But this • Read More »
Tags: Cable TV, CD, DVD, Fight Piracy, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, Internet, IP, IP Rights, Media Industry, Music, Patent, PIPA, Piracy, Piracy vs Availability, SOPA, TV
Well! Yesterday was my 2nd working day in Linkoping with two other guys. When you come from a place like SL, its bit tough to find your way around. All the names of places sounds same. All houses looks same. There are separate roads to drive, walk and ride. Everything is little too systematic (like buses always come on time) :). We • Read More »
Tags: Google, Google Maps, GPS, Linkoping, Sweden
Well! this topic is well covered here, and probably repeated all over the web. But I am going to write this post any way. Because my WordPress move went quite well. And here is how it was done. Everything Starts with Taking a Backup A move is as simple as a backup and restore. You back up • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Backup & Restore, CPannel, DNS, Domain, Domain Change, How to Move Wordpress, Moving, Moving Wordpress, My SQL, MySQL, PHP, Restore, Tech, WordPress
When it comes to buying services and complex products I always prefer buying from a local seller. This makes it easy to communicate and handle any matter that might come up when using the product or service that we buy. But in some cases the typical Sri Lankan customer relationship attitude make it a nightmare. This happened way too often with my • Read More »
Tags: Backup, Customer service, Sri Lanka, Technology, Web Hosting, WordPress, wordpress.org
How to fix E61:00 on youtube. Remember that old TV your parents used to have, which simply refuse to work until you give it few good bangs. Well I thought you don’t have to do that any more with new 21st century electronics. Well! I was wrong. My Cyber-shot started to give me this error called E61:00. Basically • Read More »
Tags: Bang, Cyber-Shot, Cybershot, DSC-H3, E61:00, Personal, Photography, Sony, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3, Sony Cyber-shot H3, Tech
“Flickr Thumbnails Photostream” is one of the neatest plugins available to display a random set of photos from a Flickr stream on your WordPress sidebar. I tried out so many plugins before settling with this one for my blog. It builds a local cache of information about your Flickr stream in your website database. As • Read More »
Tags: Flickr, Flickr Curl Function failed to execute. Oops! there seems to be a problem accessing the Flickr information, Flickr Thumbnail Photostream, Flickr Thumbnail Photostream Bug fix, Flickr WordPress Plugin, flickr-thumbnails-photostream, PHP, timeout