This is an error that I’ve encountered when trying to install Windows 2000 (Win2K) onto some of my super duper old systems. These are customised systems to act as DVRs so I need to install Win2k as it was written to work that OS.
The stupid installation kept giving me this error:
“DISK I/O ERROR: STATUS 00008000″
For a while I thought it was a HDD problem and was about to toss that hard disk out of the window (no pun intended)
It appears that the attackers gained entry to the account via a vulnerability in the outdated installation of osCommerce installed on the account. To prevent further attack, you will need to update this and any other installed scripts to their most recent versions. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.
I really irritates me to see my site being hacked!! I used to have great admiration for hackers .. not for their deeds but for their ability to penetrate servers and leave a footprint .. .. but it doesn’t feel that good anymore now being a victim
The yucky feeling gets worse when you’re being hacked the 2nd time in 2 months .. and they are both turkish kackers ..
Fortunately, this time it was as serious as before .. .. it is also a lot more mild than many other victims. See their hacks here: http://zone-h.org/archive/defacer=1923Turk
Apparently, the DJ_K_A_H_I_R is one of their “big leader” with the team 1923Turk title of “Saldırı Kuvvetleri Komutanı” (Attack Force Commander) ..
Just hope they will leave this harmless little blog alone .. ..
I needed to setup a separate profile to manage another campaign so that there will be no confusion and I will send the wrong emails to the wrong clients. It is easy to do this in the good old Outlook Express .. unfortunately this “Profile” feature has been removed in the Windows ShitSta’s Windows Mail ..
Thunderbird is the next best alternative I have .. but the profile settings in Thunderbird is not a default thingy available in the Menu .. however .. it is not difficult to do it .. I’ve gotten the following from the official Mozilla site that is supposed to be released under Creative Commons .. I’ve also included a video to a “Short-cut” way to permanently enable the Profile Manager in your Start Menu
I was doing installation on another Joomla 1.5 site and encountered similar issue .. This time there is another error message
“could not move the file”
So upon checking .. I realised that there was no “tmp” folder .. .. after creating it and CHMOD it .. The
Joomla Error “JFolder::create: Could not create directory”
The steps following are the same as previously mentioned.
TIP ::
1) Here’s one thing that I did not mention in my previous post .. that is .. in addition to that Error Message .. the 2nd that appears will actually show the source of the error:
Component Install: Failed to create directory.: “/home/XXXXX/public_html/components/com_joomlapack”
This will give you a hint at the problem ..
2) Joomlapack is a wonderful software that you MUST HAVE in your installation .. together with KickStart .. they make the Joomla migration a child’s play!!!
language (I am using English-GB, so this may be optional)
administrator/components
administrator/components
administrator/language
And Viola! It is back to normal now ..
Note:
There is no need to CHMOD all the sub directories! It is not necessary as the new additions will be created in the above folders as a separate sub-folder. CHMODing all the folders will also compormise on the security of your site!
There is no need to CHMOD to 777 .. I tried with 775 and it worked ..
I’ve just reset the Linksys Router in the office .. this is a router that connects the PC/Laptops in another room to the main router through Windows Internet Connection Sharing (Win XP) by the following setup.
I’ve searched all over the net for a “off the shelf” solution .. but did find it .. so with some mixing and matching .. managed to put things together from 2 very useful source:
The answer I’ve been needed to know the configuration on the Router.
ICS is a dhcp server, a limited server, but it will handle all dhcp sever requests. it will not let clients use the shared internet connection unless it assigns the ip, or you set them up static using the subnet range it wants to use. normally 192.168.0.x.
With that I managed to set the following settings:
If you are as forgetful as I am, you’ll probably remember such a situation:
You’ve setup a PHP platform like Joomla or Wordpress
You logged in the admin area and saved the password on your PC.
You did not log in for some time.
You forgot your password! You forgot your username! You forgot which email you used to setup this account!
You somehow remembered how to login to the mySQL server (Through cPanel perhaps) .. and you see a long string of what looked like some gibberish on the “Password” Field!
I was encountering some problems when installing my phpList on my new server that is running on IIS (Windows server) .. as a result .. I needed to find a new solution .. there are many new Mailing List Managers available (Thank God!) ..
I found this Tellmatic on Hotscript .. as with most Opensource installations the instructions came in a text file .. that is not so reader friendly .. so decided to re-format the instructions .. and well since I’ve already saved a copy .. might as well share it with all of you
Well can say for all the components of Joomla 1.0, but generally this will be changing the format of the files that determine the layout of the components.
Look for the specific component folder. Typically named as “com_Component_Name”
For example: “com_attend_events” / “com_facileforms” / etc
Look for any files with a “.html.php” in the name
For example: “contact.html.php”
If it does not exist, then you’ll have to do it by trial and error
Download the file to your PC
Edit the file using your HTML editor
Use your FTP client to rename the existing file on your server by adding the date at the back.
This way, you’ll know when was that file modified.
For example: Rename “index.php” to index-”20090528.php”. This way, you’ll know that the file was modified on the Year:2009, Month:May, Day:28th
Upload the file from your PC to the remote server and test it by visiting the website to see if all is working well.
Sometimes it may be required to change additional files too .. ..
For example, for the text that is show is determined by another file in another file titled “Language” .. just go to the folder to look for the file that is of the language of the site .. eg: “English.php” or “german.php”
Also there may be a need to modify the CSS file .. but this will be a little tricky and I shall keep it for another time.
