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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.

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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

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.

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.

Hmm not sure if I’ll get one of the 13″ MacBook Pros or a refurbished iMac. The iMac would be faster and have better video, but cost a little more then a new 13″ MacBook Pro, I’d get the $1,499 MacBook Pro, if I got one probably. By the time I can buy a new mac, they’ll probably have the cheapest 15″ MacBook Pro refurbished… So maybe I’ll get one of those instead. I like the SD card reader the new MacBook Pro’s have, then I wouldn’t have to use my card reader. They should add a SD reader to the iMac. I could get the old iMac model 3 GHz for just a little more then the new 2.93 GHz refurbished model, but want the new model with support for 8 GB of ram. I think what I’ll do is just think about it but never buy either, that way by the time I make up my mind they’ll be new models, haha. Or I might get one if my mac mini dies and can’t be fixed cheaply. Oh wait I still have my MSI Nettop 100 with ubuntu, so won’t need to purchase new mac, if current mini dies, can just use that. It can’t play games, but neither can my mini.

Update
Will probably end up getting a MacBook Pro. Probably the cheapest 15″ MacBook refurbished though, they should have em refurbished in three or four months. I suppose if I decide to get off my lazy ass and get a job, then I might be able to get one before then.

Might end up getting a new mac mini, and upgrading the ram myself. I upgraded my old one without a putty knife, though I damaged the case by doing it the way I did it. So maybe I’ll have to buy a putty knife if I do it myself.

Update
Maybe I won’t get a new mac, as my current mac mini just froze again. Seems to freeze to often, more then I remember my PC with ubuntu crashing. I might decide to try ubuntu on the aspire one I ordered before sending it back, maybe I’ll keep it, if it doesn’t freeze as much as mac.

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.

Newegg has a DIY bundle for $330 or $295 after rebates. I like the case they put in that bundle, and I like the fact that they put a bundle together with pretty much everything you need. Well you might need CD drive, I have plenty of those. Not really needed anymore, can boot ubuntu from USB drive. But I do have a spare DVD burner in enclosure that I’d put in it, if I bought that bundle. Not sure if I should buy it or not, if there’s no tax maybe. With shipping its $354.02. Hmm probably no tax, just $24 shipping. Guess turning the rebates in might be worth it to get shipping money back, if you ever get rebates back. Decent price for a custom built machine with no windows on it.

I could always get a dell laptop with ubuntu on it, not this month though, would want to configure it, add more ram, better processor, better battery, and bluetooth. Not sure if I want new desktop or laptop or wait and get iMac. Or I could get a new mac mini, not sure if the “improvements” are much of an improvement over the mac mini I have. Not sure if I’d notice anything, maybe if they start offering 4 GB of ram with $599 one.

Update
Still haven’t decided, might buy the bundle though, as newegg accepts paypal now.

Update
Not buying bundle. Might buy an iMac from newegg in future though, no tax is nice.

People like to ask me that question.

She wants a computer she can surf the internet on, download music and photos, burn CD’s or DVD’s, email, use excell and word on.

Computers that would work:

Mac Mini
Make sure you add 2 GB of memory, you can configure the cheapest one. Oh yeah but you’ll have to buy a monitor and stuff too…

Dell Inspiron 530s
I’d recommend getting one with a monitor. They have better specs. Vista is a memory hog from what I’ve heard. Make sure you get Intel Core 2 Duo for the processor.

Dell Popular Laptop Deals
Any of those would work, just make sure you get an Intel Core 2 duo processor and a 9 cell battery.

If you want to buy it locally, then Best Buy has some computers that will work too.

Dell – Inspiron Desktop with Intel® Coreâ„¢2 Duo Processor E7400

Gateway – Desktop with AMD Phenomâ„¢ Triple-Core Processor 8400

HP – Pavilion Desktop with AMD Phenomâ„¢ X4 9550 Quad-Core Processor

Compaq – Presario Desktop with AMD Athlonâ„¢ X2 4450e+ Dual-Core Processor

Dell – Inspiron Desktop with AMD Athlonâ„¢ X2 5000+ Dual-Core Processor

eMachines – Desktop with AMD Athlonâ„¢ X2 Dual-Core Processor 4050e

Pretty much any desktop will work… Just make sure it has at least 2 GB of ram, if buying a PC.

Doesn’t look like I need a new mac, if I ever want to play Spore. Spore has some bad reviews anyways, and some nasty DRM. No release date yet, so you can’t pre order it yet.

Source

Looks like I killed ubuntu while trying to upgrade it using alternative CD method. Now going to put the iso on a thumb drive, and try booting from it. The upgrade thing looked like it crashed or something, so I tried killing it, and ended up trying to reboot. It didn’t look like it did anything, I guess it did. Ahh well, maybe don’t tell it to include internet updates. Was going to do the online update, but it seems as their servers are slow right now, a lot of people must be trying to upgrade all at the same time. Using parallels to put ubuntu on thumb drive, no mac program that I’m aware of that does it, suppose I could try dd, but that doesn’t usually work for me.

Update
Just reinstalled ubuntu, its working now. Takes longer then normal to download packages though.

Nice. Wonder if Microsoft will buy me one of those head covers, I’d rather have the money too, but it looks like it makes a good head cover.

From Inside Acer Aspire One

Upgraded the ram in my Acer Aspire One to 1 GB, voided the warranty doing so too. Used an old stick of ram from mac mini, upgraded that a long time ago. Just finally decided to upgrade Acer Aspire One. Touchpad no longer works, because I’m not skilled enough to connect it. Don’t care, can use external mouse. Need to replace SSD with a real hd or better SSD though. The SSD in it really sucks ass and slows it down, at least with OS X. Probably be fine in linux, but ideneb is more fun, I hear it’s against apple’s EULA, but I never read that, just clicked “accept”.

Update
Thought I got the touchpad hooked up right, might of killed the touchpad some how. Might have to buy a upper case/touchpad for aspire one on ebay. I’ll probably end up selling it after I fix it, will put default distro on it though. Might want to replace internal drive too before selling. Or maybe then I’ll keep it.

Update
Just going to sale each part by its self and as is. Changed my mind, going to sale the whole thing together as is.

Just bought a MSI Wind Nettop 100 Desktop PC (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Dual Core N330 Processor, Barebone) Black from amazon.com, not sure what I’ll do with it yet. I wonder if it could record HD, probably not. Don’t even know if my USB eyetv card works in linux. Going to plug it into netbook, and see what linux sees it as. Also bought 2 GB of ram, the max it can have. Already have hard drive, have CD drives, won’t be putting any CD drives in it though. Might put xubuntu on it, or maybe mythbuntu, to see if it can handle HD. Should get it all on the 17th, free two day shipping for prime members.

iMac is a better system then the mini, and well worth the extra amount. I’ll need a new desk if I want to use my other monitor though. Probably get the cheapest 24″ one, not sure though. Won’t be getting 8 GB of ram, that’s over $1,000 for just the ram… iMac’s are probably even harder then the mini to upgrade, I think I saw a guide on ifixit.com or something like that. But I won’t be opening it, maybe I’ll pay somebody in the future to upgrade it for me. Damn if you want faster processor you have to get more expensive one, wouldn’t mind a 3 GHz processor, don’t care about HD size. Maybe the $1,799 one then, almost 3 GHz, better video then the cheaper ones. Wait you can get $1,799 one with 3 GHz processor…

Update
Will probably order the $1,499 one from frys.com in May or June. I won’t be charged tax if I order from them…

Update
If you look at the design page for the iMac, you’ll notice it says “With iMac, details make all the difference. For example, because it’s made from a single sheet of aluminum, you won’t see any seams or screws except for a single compartment on the bottom that provides easy access to the memory slots.” Sweet so I can upgrade the ram in the future, when the price of 8 GB goes way down. Looked on ifixit.com, and you’ll see the memory compartment in step 4, the only step that matters to me.

Was just looking at DDR3 prices, and its cheaper then I thought, $150 from apple is way to much, you can get it cheaper from just about anywhere else. After looking at the article on macminicolo.net, it looks like I might not break it this time, maybe I should buy a putty knife too. Oh yeah if I upgrade it myself, I’ll put my faster/bigger drive in it too. I’ll just wait a while, and get it with a little faster processor, and maybe get ripped off and have them upgrade ram. Don’t like opening mini’s, pain in the ass, well unless you break it, then it doesn’t matter. My case is broken on old one too, so maybe not faster processor, just more ram.

Finally! Apple released a new mac mini. There was a rumor a long time ago saying there would be a new one in March, looks like that one was right. Can’t wait to go to the bank later today, thinking I’ll get $599 one, and maybe add the max ram. Maybe not DDR3 is expensive… Looks like this baby could easily drive two monitors, it has mini display port, and mini DVI… But I’m probably going to give my old 19″ monitor to sister, she’s still using a giant CRT.

Mac Mini on apple.com

Update
Not buying till May or June. Don’t want to upgrade it myself, so will buy it with max ram, maybe the little better processor. Hard drive size isn’t really an issue, have 1 tb external drive and a 1 tb linkstation, though I might get a little bigger one, probably should get at least 160 GB. Hmm 160 isn’t an option, current mini has 160 GB drive, I upgraded it myself though. Damn looks like the only drives they’ll put in it are 5400 rpm, the drive I upgrade my mini to is 7200 rpm. I’ll just get the default 120 GB drive then.

I got my ram for my mac mini today. I didn’t have any problems putting the ram in, though putting it back together was a pain. First I couldn’t plug the fan in, next there was no sound. Kept trying to get sound, and then the ribbon for the audio ports, that’s connected to a sound card broke. I was going to call around, and see how much it would be to fix it. But decided the audio on it isn’t very good anyways, so I bought a USB audio adapter from amazon. One of the reviews says the microphone input sucks, I don’t use a microphone so I don’t care. Damn now I can hear fan in the mac mini. The bad thing about no sound. Or is the fan my external drive? I don’t know.

* Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
* Intel Core Duo Processor
* 1024 MB RAM
* ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
* At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.*

My video card is the crappy intel gma 950, so no spore for me.

This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

Hmm the windows version supports GMA 950, that’s bull shit. Guess I could use boot camp, and then play it in windows.