Vanvalkinburgh.org

Dear ASO Customer,

Last night, several of our hosting servers were compromised and a number of customer accounts were deleted. While not all customers are affected, we feel that all customers should be aware of the incident.

The attack happened through a compromised password/computer used by one of the techs to access/support/maintain servers. We’ve disabled access from that computer and account until we can investigate the matter thoroughly.

The servers affected were server names starting with the letters A through D. We’ve posted a notice on our customer forums and will update it with more information:

http://forums.asmallorange.com/index.php?showtopic=12908

If your server isn’t listed, your site wasn’t affected by this.
If you don’t know the server your site is hosted on, you can use our server lookup tool:

http://www.asmallorange.com/extras/server.php

Based on the log data, it does not appear that customer password files were downloaded or accessed, or that any data was transferred. Instead, the attacker simply deleted the customer accounts, and on some servers, critical system files. If you account is on a server that was attacked, we recommend changing your passwords as soon as you have access to your site again.

Our overnight and morning teams have been restoring data, but this is a slow process. For customers affected, please be patient as we work to get through this problem. We understand that many of you host sites for your clients and many of you run your website as a business. Our support team is working as hard as they can to get the data back online as soon as possible.

Once this is behind us, we will be reviewing many of the security systems currently in place and start building improvements. We certainly don’t want an incident like this to happen again. We sincerely regret that this happened, and apologize to all customers who were affected by this.

Thanks for being our customer, and we appreciate your patience as we work to get this resolved.

Email I got from them.

WARNING: During a short period of time during the attack, your site may have been redirected to a malware page promoting a “Web Accelerator” program. This file contains a virus identified as “Backdoor.Win32.VanBot!IK.” Though the exposure time was very short, (less than 30 minutes) there is a possibility that users may have downloaded it. I would suggest informing your users of this and recommend that they run a virus scan and take measures to ensure their system is clean if they happened to download it.

That is on the forum post page, the server my site is on, wasn’t affected.

Oh yeah and by the forum post it says the tech’s computer had a virus, probably the same one. Stupid tech using windows, use linux or something. To improve the security, they could roll their own minimal linux distro, that could be run using virtual box, or vmware player, or parallels, or any other virtual machine program.

Making a full backup of my site so I can download it, cpanel lets you make full backups. Puts everything in a compressed file, so you don’t have to manually download everything.

Already get weekly mysql database backups using Wordpress Database Backup.

Got my Canon PowerShot SD780 IS today. You can see a ton of pics I took here with it.

A nice pic below that I took, you can see my nose hair without it being cropped, but I prefer to show you just my nose hair.

Update

Video taken with camera.

I took a video inside, but it doesn’t look very good. Maybe its just my room, where I was taking the video there isn’t a lot of light. If I took video by my computer it might be better looking.

Click read more to see more pics.
Read more…

The MSI Nettop 100 has an intel atom 330 processor, searched google for “is intel atom 330 64 bit”, and a forum said that if “cat /proc/cpuinfo” has the Lm flag, then it does 64bit. Now downloading xubuntu 64 bit version to see if it works. Intel’s site says it is 64 bit too.

Output of cat /proc/cpuinfo below.

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.91
clflush size	: 64
power management:
 
processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 2
initial apicid	: 2
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.98
clflush size	: 64
power management:
 
processor	: 2
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.87
clflush size	: 64
power management:
 
processor	: 3
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 3
initial apicid	: 3
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.99
clflush size	: 64
power management:

Update
Live CD works, installing now.

Update
It is installed and working.

Linux xubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Oops forgot about profile I created long time ago, never used it, should delete, but to lazy.

Maybe it won’t freeze anymore now. If it still does, then it might be the hard drive, or USB wireless N card, or something else. Hard to say, if its the hard drive, I’ll wait till it dies, and then send it back if its still under warranty. Still have the old drive that came with mini.

Was only 50 bucks at office depot, went to local store, 100 bucks online. Seems to work fine, still waiting for it to charge 16 hours. Finally setup my Linksys VOIP SPA2102 SIP ATA Adapter, using vitelity, they say you need to open ports, but I don’t. Behind two routers, to lazy to open ports on two routers. At first I could only make calls, then went to support thing on their site, and did their setup wizard, and it changed some settings on their server or something. Cool I can still send txt messages using Phone Plugins on mac while its connected to the cell fusion thing. That program is only 10 bucks, I already bought it, never tried the FoneLink program, my phone isn’t on the supported phones list for it, but it is for Phone Plugins… And Phone Plugins is a lot cheaper. Hmm doesn’t seem to always work while its connected to cell fusion, so have to disable bluetooth and then enable it.

From GE 28127FE2 Cell Fusionâ„¢ Cordless Phone

Got my cirago BTA-6210 bluetooth adapter today from buy.com, bought it on their ebay store though. So far it is working way better then the internal bluetooth on my mac mini. Can use my bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and connect to my phone, without any lag now, before mouse would start lagging or get disconnected. Not sure if the 2009 mac mini is any better at bluetooth, won’t ever know, don’t plan on buying a new mac mini.

There’s a really shitty picture of it.

There’s another picture of it.

You can buy the cirago BTA-6210 bluetooth adapter on amazon too.

Bought a zBoost YX300 cell phone booster on amazon. Seems to work sort of, I can talk on the phone without loosing signal if I move. I can browse t-zones sort of, kind of slow. Doesn’t really give me anymore bars, before I had one bar, but would constantly loose it. Seems to stay connected better now. Sometimes my phone says no bars, but it works.. So perhaps my phone is a dumbass, and doesn’t know if it has any bars or not. Don’t think I’ll send it back, seems to work good enough. Probably won’t really increase battery. It was only like 60 bucks on amazon. Would be funny if I sent it back though, I had to spit on suction cup things to get it to stick to window, haha. Oh yeah I’m not very far from the antenna that goes to cell phone… Sending text messages is instant now, even know it says I have zero bars.

Update
Think I got it working better now, put antenna on desk, where I’m at most of the day, if I go to tv, I can bring antenna with me. Don’t think I’m even a foot away now from it. Hmm think I get how it works now… Think your phone has to have at least one bar for it to work. cause phone works better still when sitting on desk, always get one or more bars while its just sitting on desk. So I guess it does give me more bars, when its on desk. Guess speaker phone works, haha.

There’s the antenna. And that is old cell phone.

So signal is pretty good while sitting on desk… Pick it up and it goes down to one or none. Hmm wonder why it doesn’t work on top of desk. guess it has to be right by it or something, haha. No big deal for me.

Pic of home screen with good signal. Wonder if you can get longer cable with antenna… or maybe a better antenna too. Guess I’ll find out after I trip on it and break it.

Update
Found this review, looks like they get five stars when holding their phone, wtf I can’t one or no bars when holding phone. Phone has to be sitting right next to antenna, maybe its because I’m more then 10 feet away. Pretty sure when I have it 10 feet or less away from base, I still don’t get signal when holding phone, at least not at desk. Maybe my thing is crap and doesn’t work right, to lazy to send it back. Or maybe my $200 cell phone is a dumbass. Going to try $80 cell phone. And then if that doesn’t work I’m going to get tape measurer.

Wait I should try calling somebody, hmm its 11:21 pm, I’ll try calling VOIP number. Maybe it only works for calls, which sucks if that’s the case. Other phone does same thing, if you put it right by it or under it, you’ll get full signal, now to call VOIP number after I look it up.

No green light blinking.. Damn it guess I need tape measurer.

Its about 10 feet away from fucking base thing, and desk is about 6 feet from antenna, but even right by the antenna it doesn’t pick up call, might pick up call if I put phone right by or under the fucking antenna.

These reviews must be written by the people who made it or something. Rebooting my phone 20+ times doesn’t work either.

Are you supposed to get “Network busy” with this thing? Haha, light still not blinking green. Changing settings on phone doesn’t seem to be helping either. The thing doesn’t blink green when it is handling a call, at least not for me. If I put phone on antenna and make a call, it doesn’t blink green, full signal then. So if you want to tape the antenna to your phone, this thing should work great for you. And putting it more then 10 feet away works. To bad I can’t hold phone.

Maybe there is interference, so maybe I should unplug routers, turn mac off, turn iPod touch off, turn blue-tooth off on phone, fuck that.

Looks like I need to send it back, either get money back or replacement. Hmm wonder if I can get new antenna only. I should email support.

Emailed support, now to wait and see what they say… Well amazon doesn’t offer an exchange program anyways… So I will have to return it and wait, then re order it. Won’t re order if it the price goes up though. Should wait for them to email me first though.

Update
Turned it off for a short time, it does blink green when it uses it, but will only use it if phone is under it, not touching it. When at desk it doesn’t use it. Ahh if you put it side ways you might be able to go farther then a foot. But only one bar according to phone. From the pic on that review they don’t have there’s on its side, strange. Sitting right by it and holding up to hear doesn’t use it. Think a foot would be the max distance if that, might be less then that. If you use speaker phone or a blue tooth thing it should work fine. Don’t move phone though. Wonder if there’s a way to reset it or something. Probably not. Oh yeah the window I put it in, my phone gets a full signal. So that isn’t the problem.

Nice reviews on newegg… One says antenna needs to be six feet away from base, and another says it needs to be as far as possible, one says they can be 20 feet away, another says less then a foot. So I guess less then a foot like I thought is right. Not sure how far the antenna should be, seems to work right on desk. So if I don’t want to use speaker phone, I’ll have to be right by antenna, almost touching it with my hear to phone, and phone to antenna. Oh yeah and its deactivated on newegg, maybe they are making new on that works.

It doesn’t always blink green either, guess only at random.

Maybe I’ll just use speaker phone or one of my bluetooth things that I don’t use. Hmm it would be cheaper to put phone in window and use bluetooth, perhaps that’s what I’ll do, or better do nothing.

Looks like now they have no area codes available in WA. They let you change your number once for free, so I keep checking to see if a local number is available, have some 253 number, not my area code. No phone hooked up to it, nor is the computer turned on that its plugged into. Using virtualbox in ubuntu on a MSI Nettop 100, to run their bogus software. Don’t want to keep mac on 24/7, guess I could, not sure how stable the mac software is though. Not sure why I see ads on tv, since they don’t even offer area codes in my state anymore. Oh yeah I emailed them asking when my area code would be available, below is their response. Oh yeah to find their email, you have to search google, it is Dan@magicjack.com.

We apologize that your area code is not represented right now and we
are doing our best to add as many area codes as possible.
Sorry for the vague reply, but we will keep updating our lists as
fast as we can. Thank you.

Looks like their running out of numbers, and not adding anymore. Ahh well it was only around $30 on ebay. I should sell that linksys phone adapter I bought that I don’t need, was going to use it with vitelity, but changed my mind. Oh yeah you will be able to port a number to them “sometime in 2009″. Guess you don’t really need a local number, but then people that use the shitty local service, will get charged when calling you.

Instead of everyone switching to magic jack, how about get a skype phone adapter, both require your computer to be on 24/7, difference is skype is free. If everyone was using skype, you wouldn’t need to pay anything, its free to call skype people from skype. Then they’d probably start charging for it. Or pay more and get something that doesn’t need your computer.

Looking at spam comments, some moron keeps posting a comment, about how they make money, yeah by scamming morons probably. Me I make $0 per month by doing absolutely nothing other then sitting on my fat ass. Google ads doesn’t work btw, you have to get $100 to get check, and your site has to have better content then this shitty site. And amazon’s associate program doesn’t work all that good either, and neither does shareasale. So I’m loosing money every time I renew this domain or pay for hosting. Now go take your shitty spam comments and shove it up your fucking ass. Maybe when hosting expires I won’t pay bill, keep the domain for sure though.

Oh yeah forgot to say, their shitty site is .no-ip.net or whatever. Sure you could get their IP, would be funny if their using windows. Wait not on no-ip.info anymore, they probably learned their lesson, dumbass.

Doesn’t look like they want any calls their whoise info is protected. Their host is rathost.net, maybe they allow scam sites.

Ahh their IP is owned by iWeb Technologies Inc. That proves it is an automated post spam comment, guess they aren’t using a zombie computer, they rather pay to do their dirty business. Hmm do those guys allow spam? Probably, so no point in complaining to em.

That’s because many observers don’t expect a new iPhone will be unveiled. The Cupertino company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about software, not gadgets. Some prognosticators say a new device – perhaps even a new family of iPhones – will be launched later this month or in July.

Good cause I don’t care about the iPhone. Not buying any phone that is locked down to a service, hell I don’t even need a cell phone or any phone for that matter. If I had to pay bill, I’d have no cell phone.

Might not have to buy OS X Snow Leopard, as I’ll eventually get an iMac. Doubt Snow leopard will be released immediately.

Funny how everyone is expecting hardware, does anyone realize the name of it is “World Wide Developer Conference”? Sounds like software, not hardware, at least to me.

A number of analysts expect Apple to hold a special event in coming weeks to launch a new family of iPhones, and to announce lower prices.

Ahh there you go iPhone humpers. Maybe they’ll lower price of iMac, still have to wait 2+ months, will want some money left in bank, and will be buying refurbished.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster speculates a device that is somewhat larger than the iPod Touch will be launched in the first quarter of next year.

That is what I want, then I won’t bother getting a new touch if they make a new one. I still have the first generation touch, waiting for third generation or tablet like mac.

Apple’s annual developers conference: Don’t expect a new iPhone – San Jose Mercury News.

Got my portable iPod speaker today, that I ordered from eForCity. Have another portable speaker, but has a cable sticking out, this one plugs into dock connection. Easier to carry around then one that plugs into the headphone jack.

Update
Speaker doesn’t work very good with case on. Works fine without case on though. Still works with the 3.0 update.

Read on tuaw.com that Robocalypse is coming to the iPhone, never even heard of the game. Guess its for the DS, came out in 2008. Might have to buy the DS version on ebay, looks like fun, and its cheap. Could buy it on amazon, but don’t get any rewards from amazon, like my ebay bucks. Cheaper on ebay anyways, gamestop doesn’t sell that anymore, at least not on their site.

My old mac mini still works and is fast enough for me. The only thing I can’t do is play newer mac games. I’ll just play games on my 360 and wii for now. Maybe I’ll consider getting new mac if starcraft 2 is ever released. Maybe I’ll buy an expensive SSD drive to speed it up even more. The 7200 rpm drive I have in it is fast enough though, so don’t really need a new drive. I will be getting a new superdrive, so I don’t have to use external drive to burn DVDs. Could always buy a cheap PC for gaming, if I want to play computer games.

I signed up for eBay Bucks yesterday, so far I’ve earned $0.90. Now I’m going to buy most of the stuff I buy on eBay, I like getting some of the money back. Should of signed up before buying linksys phone adapter thing.

Intel released a beta of their linux based OS for netbooks today. Maybe I’ll try that on Aspire One after it comes.

Thinking about buying an ASUS Eee PC 901, or some other netbook with linux. Had aspire one, but that one had small SSD low ram, wasn’t worth it. Now there cheaper and better, Eee PC 901 even has a better battery then my aspire one had. Would be nice to have bigger screen then touch to browse web while watching tv, and a full featured browser. Maybe apple will release a new iPod touch with bigger screen… Probably not anytime soon. I think I rather buy a netbook from amazon, easy return policy, fast free two day shipping. Depends if ubuntu will run on this without any problems, need to look into that. Ubuntu netbook page. Hmm looks like the HP works pretty good on it. Wait that HP model that works, can’t even find it. But the 1000 that HP lists on site has a sound bug. Doesn’t look to hard to fix, HP mini has real HD and bigger screen then the Eee PC 901. Hmm strange their site says different then what amazon has… Pass on HP mini, want one that comes with 6 cell battery. Hmm maybe this aspire one.

Update
Bought Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165 10.1-Inch Sapphire Blue Netbook – 6 Cell Battery instead of ASUS Eee PC 901. Will put ubuntu on it, once I get it. Same price that I payed for old aspire one that had crappy SSD drive, this one has a real hard drive. Hmm maybe I should of bought that newegg DIY bundle instead, ahh well I can buy that next month. haha. Or send netbook back and buy it. Don’t want that bundle, rather get a quad core processor, if I get AMD. So I’d have to manually pick everything out. Ahh well I have 30 days to try netbook out, if I don’t like it I can send it back.

Update
If I get it and it doesn’t work, or ubuntu is to much of a pain to get working on it, I’m going to send it back to amazon and get refund, have 30 days. Also I’ve read that acer’s supports sucks, and to get an rma is a pain, also heard from somebody else that somebody they know has an acer and they break down a lot. Must of got lucky with last Aspire One, good thing I sold it on ebay.

Didn’t know there was a mac version, as I tried the trial from amazon games. Bought it on sale for $0.98. They charge $20 on their site, so no point in buying it directly, rather use windows version in crossover games. And save about $19. Funny new review says amazon’s downloader thing froze their computer. Haha that’s what you get for using a PC, oh wait this is for PC only. Amazon downloader works perfectly in crossover games, they should give ubuntu a try, and get free trial of crossover games, doubt it’d crash whole computer if it crashed, just crossover games. Or better if you use ubuntu, try wine, its free and based on crossover games…

Wamu is a dick, and is charging me for my savings account. Though their site says if you transfer a minimum of $5 per month, then they won’t charge you, but the fuckers charged me, and still haven’t given refund. Usually they charge you then give you refund, this time it looks like the fuckers lied and took $5 for good. So took all money out of savings account and put it in checking account. Thinking I should switch banks, not sure I’m liking these fucktards anymore. Fucking lying assholes.

Looks like if I open a checking account with Bank of America, the monthly maintenance fee is waived. Though says other things cost money… Think if you call them you have to pay. Hmm looks like Bank of America has a free savings account too. Doesn’t make sense to pay for a savings account, at least not to me. Kind of hard to save money, when they charge you for the account, better off getting a safe and saving it that way, then paying for a fucking savings account.

Forgot about SSI, I have direct deposit setup with wamu, don’t want to have to contact them or set that up again. To lazy, better just keep wamu, won’t have savings account, maybe it’ll close by its self. Since there’s no money in savings account. If they take money out of checking account, I’ll have to sue the fuckers for $5 or $10.

Just use doubletwist, works in OS X and I think on windows. I have my phone connected by USB right now, might just say generic device if you put the micro SD card in a card reader. You could use Finder, but that might be a pain if you just want to copy a playlist, instead of all your music, all my music won’t fit on 4 GB microSDHC card anyways.

Update
Another way is to use Nokia Multimedia Transfer.