Previously, I posted about the horrible customer experience I had with 1&1 corporation when they basically fired me as a customer when my sites became too popular for their shared hosting plan. All they had to do was inform me of the issue (before shutting my sites down with no notice or warning) and I’d have gladly shelled out for a dedicated server.  Instead, and without any warning, I get a service unavailable message from 1&1. Beyond that, as I’m rushing to transfer all of my holdings out of that registrar, I encounter many error messages saying that there is a domain registration error from 1&1.

I’ve long since switched to godaddy, who has english speaking, United States based customer service, and they have blown my expectations out of the water.

Anyway, over a year after I switch, i get a promotional email from 1and1 marketing, showboating an offer of unlimited traffic. As vague as that is, i know it will mislead many customers into thinking that it means unlimited everything, when it does not!

When you talk about shared hosting, there are several factors:

• number of domains you can host (unlimited according to 1and1)
• number of GB of transfer per month This is what they are really saying is unlimited
• RAM/memory available – they don’t specify this for shared hosting, nor do they give a method for customer to monitor it. This is what will limit you before GBs of transfer does.
• CPU Time allowed – they don’t specify this for shared hosting, nor do they give a method for customer to monitor it. This is what will limit you before GBs of transfer does.

The last two, factors that you can not monitor yourself, and factors that are not called out in your “plan” are what will get you kicked off faster than any other factor (including non-payment). The idea is that you are on shared hosting, and you should use a proportionate amount of the two items – CPU Time and RAM/Memory.

My point is, the recent 1&1 ad is a deceptive marketing piece, and I call it nothing more than another scam by 1&1 ripoff web hosting.

Again, if anyone knows the direct phone numbers to any of the 1&1 corporate folks in the US, please post them below.

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So <b>where is the Fairview overpass?</b> LOL yeah, the way the Halifax Department of Transportation worded it when they “notified the public” was a bit vague, and they used a name that is not “official”. They assumed everyone knows what the Fairview overpass is, and where it is, just like they assume everyone knows that the Provincial highway #102 is called the “bi-hi”. There are about 50 overpasses that could constitute as a “fairview overpass” in Halifax. Anyway, the <u>Fairview overpass in Halifax</u>, where the construction will be occurring, will affect you if you go 1 of two ways into the city:

1. The Bedford Highway, or
2. down Lacewood, and out to Joseph Howe Dr., toward the Windsor St. Exchange.

As you can see below, it is between point a and b on the map. You know when you leave halifax, and you pass the windsor street interchange, you can loop hard right and get yourself on the Joseph Howe Dr? Well that “overpass” you drive under, is the Fairview Overpass. It is directly before the Windsor St. Interchange, one of only 3 ways onto the peninsula that Halifax sits on (besides the bridges from Dartmouth) These include:

1. The Armdale Rotary
2. The Windsor St. Exchange
3. The Highway #102 Inbound

The majority of traffic that will not be able to use the construction route will likely divert to the highway 102 inbound route.

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Regardless, it’s going to make my commute 50% longer in the morning. Nice. You may have found this if you are a frustrated Halifax commuter looking for:

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What is a Disconnected Recordset?

A Disconnected Recordset is A recordset object that exists in an application, but does not have an associated data connection associated with it.

Why use a Disconnected Recordset?

The ADO Recordset is considered an extremely “rich object model” which means it provides more functionality than say, an array.
Also, you can load XML into a disconnected recordset, which means that there is no difference in your RS than if you hit a database.

How to code a Disconnected Recordset?

Here is an example of putting data from XML into a recordser, a disconnected recordset to be exact.

Const adVarChar = 200
Const adSingle = 4
Const adPersistxml = 1
Const adUseClient = 3
Const adOpenStatic = 3
Const adLockBatchOptimistic = 4
Const adStateOpen = 1

Public Function fGetXmlForRs(strFieldsCsv, intFieldLen)
	Dim objRs, arrFields, intCount, objXmlDom, objXmlRows, objXmlRow, objXmlColumns, objXmlColumn

	Set objRs  = CreateObject("ADODB.recordset") 'create disc. rs
	Set objXmlDom = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")

	objXmlDom.LoadXML "YOUR_XML_HERE" 

	arrFields = split(replace(strFieldsCsv," ",""),",")
	For intCount = 0 To uBound(arrFields)
		objRs.Fields.Append arrFields(intCount), adVarChar, intFieldLen  'fieldname, type, size
	Next
	objRs.Open , , adOpenStatic, adLockBatchOptimistic

	Set objXmlRows = objXmlDom.selectNodes("YOUR_ROW_NODE_HERE")
	For Each objXmlRow In objXmlRows  'for each row
		intCount = 0
		set objXmlColumns = objXmlRow.selectNodes("col")
		objRs.AddNew()
		For Each objXmlColumn In objXmlColumns
			objRsLocal (arrRequestedFields(intCountCol)).value = objXmlColumn.text
			intCount = intCount + 1
		Next
		objRs.Update()
	Next		

	Set objXmlDom = Nothing
	Set fGetRntRs = objRs
	Set objRs .ActiveConnection = Nothing
End function

To use the XML to Recordset function, just call this:

Set yourNewRs = fGetXmlForRs("field1name, field2name, etc", 255)

do while not yourNewRs.eof....

Well, my website was hacked with iframe injections pointing to ageegle dot ru -ageegle.ru- last week (not this site). The hacker added malicious code to my index or default web files that included iframe tags pointing to a site called ageegle dot ru (do not visit that site) on port 80. This page, when visited, caused the site to try to download malware to the users computer.

The first thought to enter my mind was that my web host was hacked. I don’t quite remember how i ruled that out, but it was not that. I then considered that there was a vulnerability in my code, since it was a site written in classic asp with vb script that I had written entirely myself. I ruled that out as well, because I was meticulous in ensuring that there were no holes that would allow sql injection attacks, or any access to the file system itself. I did my own testing to ensure this, then hired two separate consultants to review and test the code again.

I opened the file browser within my web hosts control panel, and noticed that the modified date of the files were updated to the date the malicious code was written to them. Since I do not share my hosting password with anyone, it had to be FTP, with the credentials stolen by malware on my own computer. Many are quick to dismiss that, but it can happen easy.

I had never been hit with malware or a virus in 11 years of computing without an antivirus software, so I got cocky. I found that I got a piece of malware with a download of some plugins for dreamweaver.

Even when I changed my FTP password on the host, the spammer was able to write to my files with the iframe injections. This means that when I changed the FTP credentials in Dreamweaver, they were capturing them there.

Install at least two anti-virus applications on any development boxes you use, and scan everything. Use SFTP if you can. NEVER use pirated web development tools, as normally the keygens (exe files) contain the malware that steals passwords. Its just too damn risky.

If this has happened to you, and you are having issues getting things back on track, feel free to leave me a comment, and I will be happy to help out if I can, or at least point you in the direction of more information.

You will have found this post if you searched for any of the following:

• iframe injection
• ageegle.ru iframe
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• index files hacked
• default files hacked
• dreamweaver infected
• keygen steal ftp password
• iframe hacked script
• web host hacked

Sites linked to in the malicious code (Don’t visit these sites):

• red-wolf.ru:8080
• pornishe.ru:8080
• daniellecsejtei.selfip.com:8080
• benparker44.is-a-chef.com:8080

If you are looking for a Cross Browser Compatible CSS Opacity code, you need look no further. The following provides 100% opacity (which is the same as 0% transparency.)

Body {

...your body css...

-moz-opacity: 1.0 !important;
-webkit-opacity: 1.0!important;
-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100)" !important;
filter: alpha(opacity=100) !important;
opacity: 1.0 !important;
}

The key is ensuring that the order of the opacity entries are kept in this format.

The -webkit- opacity handles chrome, the -mox- handles FF, Netscape, Mozilla, the -ms- handles older IE versions, like 5 and 6.

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Groove is a component of Microsoft Office enterprize 2007.

If you don’t use the groove service, you can uninstall it.

1. Go to “Add-Remove Programs”
2. find your MS office installation in the menu
3. click CHANGE (not remove)
4. Find the Groove item in the list
5. Change the indicator to “Not available”
6. let the process finish
7. reboot.

This should work for removing groovemonitor.exe from your system. (You want to do this because it runs at atartup and persists even after you term the process, which is annoying.)

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Can I place adsense for search units on a 404 not found page? Can I place adsense text ad units on that same 404 not found page? This is a group of questions that comes up a great deal. There are also a lot of mixed answers out there.

If you have a plain, uncustomized 404 page, with no content, you can not use either of these. It is against their terms of service. However, if your 404 has a little bit of “we’re sorry, blah blah…” content, and perhaps a few other helpful content items, then you can safely place the adsense units on it.

Hi [protected],

Thanks for your email. I apologize for the confusion and will be more than happy to clarify.

After looking up ticket #[protected], I noticed that your questions were about placing Google ads on customized error pages that contain sufficient text-based content. For this type of pages, you’re welcome to place Google ads on them, as our crawlers will be able to serve relevant ads.

However, regarding your question in ticket #[protected], it sounded like the 404 error pages you’ve mentioned were the default error pages with no content. According to our program policies (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies), no Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages.

Therefore, if you’re able to customize your error pages by adding enough content, you’re more than welcome to place Google ads on them.

I hope this information clarifies your concerns.

For additional questions, we encourage you to visit the AdSense Help Center ([]google.com/adsense_help), our complete resource center for all AdSense topics. Alternatively, feel free to post your question on the forum just for AdSense publishers: the AdSense Help Group ([]groups.google.com/group/adsense-help).

Sincerely,

Nicole
The Google AdSense Team

Hope this helps, and as always, before you believe what you read on the net (including this) be sure to have a good and clear understanding of the actual adsense program policies AND the terms of service AND the webmaster guidelines.

This is a simple VBS VBScript that I use to delete all files in a given folder on a machine. It is particularly useful to delete internet cache files or cookies. You can set a scheduled job actually, to perform this task nightly. This script could be easily modified to, say, clear out your temporary internet files from the folder used by internet explorer. This example is a vbs vbscript to delete files in a temporary folder called “downloads” contained within my “My Documents” folder.

' VB Script Document, VBS, WSH, wscript
' Deletes files in a specified folder, for example, a temp downloads folder.
' By GR, February 27, 2009.
' robarspages.ca

'Declare variables
Dim strCacheFile
Dim strComputer
Dim strAppData
Dim strUserProfile
Dim strErrorfile

Dim objWMIService
Dim objShell
Dim objFSO
Dim objFolder

StrcacheFile = "\downloads\"
strComputer = "." 'leave alone if running script on same maching

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set objShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )

 '---path to the application data folder. not used in this example.
strAppData = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%APPDATA%")
'---path to the user folder (if multiple users)
strUserProfile = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERPROFILE%") 

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' get the folder that contains the folder you want to empty.
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strUserProfile & "\My Documents")

If objFSO.FolderExists(objFolder & StrcacheFile) Then
    objFSO.DeleteFile(objFolder & StrcacheFile & "*"), True
    WScript.Echo "Folder """ & objFolder & StrcacheFile & """ was emptied successfully"
else
    WScript.Echo "ERROR: I could not find the folder, please check the path..."
End If

 ' Clean up objects
Set objWMIService = Nothing
Set objShell = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
Set objFolder = Nothing

I needed a quick vbscript to terminate a specific windows process that seemed to hang. This is the script that will do it. It uses SQL to lookup the process name from the win32_process list, then uses the terminate function to close it.

NOTE: this vbs to terminate a windows process was only tested on Windows XP professional edition.

Just leave strComputer variable as-is if you are using it on the same machine as the process you want terminated. Replace the ENTER_PROCESS_NAME_HERE portion of the code with your process name. (to find a windows process name, just go to the windows task manager, click “processes” and the name that appears in the “process name” column is the string you should enter.)

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'ENTER_PROCESS_NAME_HERE'")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
    objProcess.Terminate()
Next

The for loop ensures that if there are multiple processes open that match your query, all of them get terminated. If you are looking to terminate a specific process, make sure you enter it’s full name, and make sure you research other processes so that you don’t terminate other processes that you didn’t intend to.

If you want to terminate multiple, but similar processes, you can use wildcard, just like in any sql statement.

SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name LIKE 'm%'

This code will select all processes beginning with the letter M, for example.

Hope this helps. Comments welcome.