Welcome to the new domain and self-hosting Wordpress. http://www.404techsupport.com I hope you enjoy the stay and find exactly what you need. If you don't, feel free to leave a comment and I can try to help. Looking forward to creating many more posts and tips to share with all. There will be a few quirks as we make the transition, but I'm working on fixing things and getting … [Read more...]
SQL Injection Attacks
Anybody that will be coding publicly-accessible SQL-based web applications needs to be aware of the threat from SQL Injection attacks. SQL injection attacks are attempts made by a malicious user to gain access to the SQL back-end database and can occur from, for example, a PHP front-end. One way for the attack to work is to input unexpected data. If it is formatted in a way … [Read more...]
MyFreeCopyright.com on WordPress.com blogs
Upon request, and tangentially related to my post titled "My Brush with Blog Scraping", I'd like to provide a quick step-by-step guide on getting MyFreeCopyright.com to work with your blog. I'll specifically be using Wordpress.com, but I can't imagine the steps would be too terribly different for other blogging systems. MyFreeCopyright.com subscribes to your feed and watches … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Shortcuts versus Static Copies to Web Pages
If you want to put a shortcut to a webpage on your desktop, you can easily do this in the following steps. You will want to be sure, however, that you understand the difference between creating a shortcut to a web page and making a static copy of one. If you make a static copy of a web page, it will not reflect any updates made to the site after you save it. That could be what … [Read more...]
Installing Disk Defragmenter for Windows XP
Disk Defragmenter and Disk Clean-up are typically installed by default on Windows XP installations. If, however, they are not showing up under Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools and when you go to My Computer, right-click on the drive, Properties, and on the Tools tab you get the message: "No defragmentation tool is currently installed" You might need to manually … [Read more...]