Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Clearing your local DNS cache (DNS FLUSH)
Clearing your local DNS cache (DNS FLUSH)
When transferring a domain name or updating your nameservers for the domain, your local computer DNS servers might be still resolving your old site IP or perform queries to your old domain's DNS servers - which will lead to either you not being able to access your new site or you will be acessing the site hosted with your previous hosting company.
Usually after certain period of time (time to live - usually 24-72 hours) your local computer will naturally start to resolve your new site address and query your new domain DNS servers.
Clearing your local computer DNS cache (DNS FLUSH) could help expedite this process and in 90% you will be able to access your new site immediately.
To clear your local DNS cache on Windows XP/2000/2003:
· Click Start > Run.
Enter ipconfig /flushdns in the “Open:” textbox.To clear your local DNS cache in Mac OSX:
· In Mac OSX Leopard, you can use the command dnscacheutil -flushcache to flush the DNS resolver cache:
bash-2.05a$ dscacheutil –flushcache
· In Mac OSX versions 10.5.1 and before, the command lookupd -flushcache performed the same task:
bash-2.05a$ lookupd -flushcache
In combination with the above - you may need to reboot your computer and/or clear your browser cache.
If the above steps still do not help - please, allow 24-72 hours for the new DNS change to take place and propagate throughout the Internet. If after this time you still can not access your new account - please contact our support.
via mochasupport.com
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Twitter API Wiki / HTTP Response Codes and Errors
<< Back to Twitter API Documentation
HTTP Status Codes
The Twitter API attempts to return appropriate HTTP status codes for every request. It is possible to surpress response codes for the REST API.
- 200 OK: Success!
- 304 Not Modified: There was no new data to return.
- 400 Bad Request: The request was invalid. An accompanying error message will explain why. This is the status code will be returned during rate limiting.
- 401 Not Authorized: Authentication credentials were missing or incorrect.
- 403 Forbidden: The request is understood, but it has been refused. An accompanying error message will explain why. This code is used when requests are being denied due to update limits.
- 404 Not Found: The URI requested is invalid or the resource requested, such as a user, does not exists.
- 406 Not Acceptable: Returned by the Search API when an invalid format is specified in the request.
- 500 Internal Server Error: Something is broken. Please post to the group so the Twitter team can investigate.
- 502 Bad Gateway: Twitter is down or being upgraded.
- 503 Service Unavailable: The Twitter servers are up, but overloaded with requests. Try again later. The search and trend methods use this to indicate when you are being rate limited.
Error Messages
When the Twitter API returns error messages, it does so in your requested format. For example, an error from an XML method might look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
<request>/direct_messages/destroy/456.xml</request>
<error>No direct message with that ID found.</error>
</hash>
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Mac OS X 10.5 unable to login after update
Login did not work after an Apple system update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1543?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1543?viewlocale=en_US
BankerFox.A and Nuqel.E
A quick note on a clients system that pickup up BankerFox.A and Nuqel.E trojans plus a bunch of porn pop ups.
These were very clever trojans, disabling just about anything you need to run to remove them. The also ran in memory, so once you removed them, they wrote themselves back into the system.
After numerous tries of the different posts out there on the internet, the following is what I found that work for this client.
There are post that tells you to use the Spy Hunter package, they may work but you have to pay for the software.
All of the posts that I found on the internet as of Nov 10/2009 did not work, I tried a number of them.
The free solution that I used to remove was as follows.
I used SmitFraudFix v2.423 (WinXP, Win2K), (http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php) and the free home edition of
Avast 4.8 ( http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html )
Put the system in to safe mode and run SmithFraudFix. Run the Avast 4.8 after, it will detect the trojan in memory and ask to do a restart to do a memory scan on startup. Ok this and let it do the scan. Once it finds the trojans, do a delete.
Once is it finished, it will restart. Instead of letting it restart in regular mode so that it can continue with a regular scan. Power the system down before it restarts. Restart it back into safe mode and do another full scan with Avast.
These were very clever trojans, disabling just about anything you need to run to remove them. The also ran in memory, so once you removed them, they wrote themselves back into the system.
After numerous tries of the different posts out there on the internet, the following is what I found that work for this client.
There are post that tells you to use the Spy Hunter package, they may work but you have to pay for the software.
All of the posts that I found on the internet as of Nov 10/2009 did not work, I tried a number of them.
The free solution that I used to remove was as follows.
I used SmitFraudFix v2.423 (WinXP, Win2K), (http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php) and the free home edition of
Avast 4.8 ( http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html )
Put the system in to safe mode and run SmithFraudFix. Run the Avast 4.8 after, it will detect the trojan in memory and ask to do a restart to do a memory scan on startup. Ok this and let it do the scan. Once it finds the trojans, do a delete.
Once is it finished, it will restart. Instead of letting it restart in regular mode so that it can continue with a regular scan. Power the system down before it restarts. Restart it back into safe mode and do another full scan with Avast.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Battle of the anti-virus: What is the best software?
Battle of the anti-virus: What is the best software?
Posted on 06.11.2009
AV-Comparatives.org recently released the results of a malware removal tests with which they evaluated 16 anti-virus software solutions:The test focused only on the malware removal/cleaning capabilities, therefore all used samples were samples that the tested antivirus products were able to detect. The main question was if the products are able to successfully remove malware
- Avast Professional Edition 4.8
- AVG Anti-Virus 8.5
- AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0
- BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010
- eScan Anti-Virus 10.0
- ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0
- F-Secure AntiVirus 2010
- G DATA AntiVirus 2010
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010
- Kingsoft AntiVirus 9
- McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009
- Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
- Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.10
- Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6
- Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010
- Trustport Antivirus 2009.
from an already infected/compromised system. The test report was aimed to typical home users. A further question was if the products are able to remove what they are able to detect. Based on a scoring system that evaluated malware and leftovers removal capabilities, these were the results:"None of the products performed “very good” in malware removal or removal of leftovers, based on those 10 samples. eScan, Symantec and Microsoft (MSE) were the only products to be good in removal of malware AND removal of leftovers", says the report. "Some products do not remove all registry entries on purpose (as long as they do not have any visible side effect for the user), e.g. if that helps to prevent reinfection by the same malware. Furthermore, in some cases it is not possible to know if the registry values (or the hosts file) were modified by the malware or by the user itself (or third-party utilities used by the user)." To see which malware sample were used and why, and how the particular anti-virus solutions behaved, go here.
via net-security.org
For all the windows guys, from net-security.org
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
IT Business.ca Article - Six Everyday iPhone Disasters and How to Handle...
Six Everyday iPhone Disasters and How to Handle... | http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/Home/News.asp?id=54786
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Test
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Friday, March 13, 2009
ebook sources
Manybooks.net
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Free Fonts
Free fonts.
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Upgrading a hard drive on Mac
SuperDuper - Great program to move a copy of your existing software and system from your existing hard drive on your Mac computer to a new drive. In my case I was upgrading the original 200gb to a new 320gb drive. Saves having to reload all the software and entering all the license keys.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Useful Mac Keystrokes
from techtalkpoint.com
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Friday, January 2, 2009
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