Archive - March 2009
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Possible April Fools Joke?
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 31st, 2009 | 0 Comments
With tomorrow being the first of April, known as 'April Fools Day', it is widely speculated that the so called 'Conficker Worm' will be unleashed. Apparently this worm has been detected for at least a year now, and that it has just been going onto peoples computers and basically remaining dormant. It is initially executed when a file is executed, but after that it seems there is no other activity.
It is said that tomorrow,April 1st, the worm will come out of its long sleep and begin to scan through 50,000 sites and then download information from them, it is not known what will be done with this information but people are coming up with many different theories. The most realistic one is that it will try to conflict with your system and make performance suffer as a result.
It has been 2 years now since the last major worm was unleashed throughout the internet, known as the 'Storm Worm', it mainly attacked private computers, this spread rapidly through an e-mail that was in circulation that warned about a recent weather disaster, it said "230 dead as storm batters Europe". The Storm Worm was re-released last year (2008) on April fools day and once again infected more computers.
So obviously there is people thinking a new worm this April fools day could be released. Microsoft has even released information on the Conficker Worm, the most recent release of this worm was on march 4th 2009, which is not too long ago. Microsoft has information on how to remove the infection on there site and how to further prevent this from happening, the Alert Level is set to Severe on this worm.
I personally think that this is getting blown way out of proportion and is most likely another joke, people probably just picked April 1st as the possible release date due to the fact of it being April fools day.
Sure we will soon find out if it is all a load of rubbish or not, all we have to do is wait until tomorrow!
New Theme On Verge Of Completion
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments
I am finally happy with my new theme that i have. I hope to have it up and running by Sunday of this week. It will be a complete change from this current design. I dont want to post any snapshots of how it looks at this stage, i will just wait until the day i put it live.
I ended up using a free theme i found on the internet after me looking through hundreds and hundreds of themes, and none of them i liked until i finally found the one i am going to be using. I even bought a theme from ThemeForest, and then eventually decided not to use it, it didnt cost much to buy do i did not mind.
There is only two things left to do in order for my theme to be ready for this site, first i want to have my logo made and then i have to add some custom fields to some of my blog posts, i would rather not add the custom fields but it makes the site look a bit more lively when the custom fields are in use.
Now I Have Two Servers
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 29th, 2009 | 0 Comments
This week I decided I would take up the great offer that dreamhost are offering, if you sign up with them using the coupon code '777' then you will receive a full years hosting with unlimited bandwidth and disk space for only €6.96 ($9.24). That is a really good offer and one that I could not pass by.
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So as it stands now I have two servers with two different hosting providers, this one I am currently using is Lunarpages and then the new one I am going to be switching too (once my current hosting period ends with lunarpages) which is the DreamHost one.
I figured, why should I pay for a renewal of my lunarpages account when I can get a full years subscription with another hosting company with a saving of over 90%. If I like the service I get from DreamHost then I will consider staying with them for another year when it comes to the time for renewal again. Who know by that time there could be another offer out and I might switch, why pay more for a service you can get somewhere else for a fraction of the price and that is potentially better than the current one you are using.
The funny thing is that dreamhost had initially set this offer as a one day thing, but everyday they seem to extend it to another day! They must be making a killing with this offer. Great way to get new customers, it certainly worked with me!