Fixes & Solutions Articles
One of the reasons for me creating this blog is to write up solutions to computer problems I’ve come across. Some fixes are so complex, or are simply stumbled upon, that they don’t have many results in Google. This causes a tiny bug to become a huge source of stress that can last for days. We’ve all been there, so hopefully these articles really help a few programmers or computer users out.
Securing WordPress: 4 tips to help lock it down
With the recent spate of brute force attacks hitting WordPress installations around the world, its not surprising that hosting companies such as Heart Internet have taken some steps in protecting its users, even if it does raise a few eyeborws. But what can we, as users of WordPress, do to help protect our own blogs or [...]
Suspicious www.webhostingstatus.com popup for WordPress Admins
Like me you’ve probably seen a lot of activity in the media recently about WordPress being targeted by hackers for weaknesses. Well today I looked at my WP installs dotted around the virtual world and saw that some of them had a suspicious popup appear before I could log in to the admin section. The [...]
How to order and group custom WordPress posts by their custom taxonomies
Working on a project for a client, I needed to group an archive of custom post types by their categories. To complicate things further the categories were implemented as a custom taxonomy. On top of this the taxonomies had to be ordered alphabetically. After a lot of experimenting with loops and different configurations of arguments, [...]
Updating Chromium on Debian 6 (Squeeze)
Switching between Ubuntu and Debian machines, you notice the benefits of both system OS’ quite quickly. The first major thing you’ll probably have noticed with Debian 6 (Squeeze) is that its bundled with Chromium. After a bit of use though, you’ll also notice how unstable Chromium is. Lots of web pages freezing up, tabs not [...]
Salting passwords – how & why?
Our lives are now run by passwords. We’re forced to remember more passwords everyday it seems. How can developers secure passwords more securely? Why is salting passwords important and how does using salts improve the strength of stored passwords? Consider this; what happens if the online store you run is hacked and all your customers details lifted? Hopefully all [...]
Facebook’s confirmation code too long? [Fix]
In the ever continuing saga of people not being able to use their SMS confirmation code from Facebook, a user of mine has submitted a solution on one specific bug; how to get the 8 digit SMS confirmation code to fit into the 6 character field. The code they send you is normally 6 digits long, which is [...]
Ubuntu won’t boot without USB stick
As some of you may remember, a few weeka ago I posted an article about installing Ubuntu from USB (If you can’t remember, check it out!), which explained how to get an ISO running on a machine without an optical device. Well it turns out that wasn’t entirely the end of the situation for some… [...]
Trouble verifying your Facebook account (Page 2)
Back in 2011 I wrote an article about how to obtain your mobile confirmation code for Facebook’s API, if you haven’t read it before this article I’d recommend you do so. Needless to say there are still lots of people out there over a year later struggling to get their mobiles confirmed, both for the [...]
[Fixed] Dreamweaver FTP Error: Timeout ‘Waiting for Server’
I’m not a regular user of Dreamweaver, I’ll admit that from the offset. I usually use a combination of Text Editor and FileZilla, but sometimes I’m on a Windows box and Dreamweaver is there, so once you know the keyboard shortcuts its easier to use the built in FTP features… when they work. I [...]
Installing Ubuntu from a USB Stick
Need to install the Ubuntu operating system from a USB device but not sure how? Perhaps you’re installing it on a netbook and don’t have a CD drive. Here’s a short article explaining how to get the ISO on a USB FDD and how to get that all installed on your PC.