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.

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 dell just released a new netbook that you can configure with a touch screen, and you can get it with either ubuntu or windows. Hmm when clicking link it wants to know my segment though… I guess I can’t buy it then. I’m not in any of those segments.

Hmm just noticed the Dell Mini 10v is only $299… Damn it, not even going to open aspire one now, just going to send it back. You can get either ubuntu or windows on it. Wait if you add 6 cell battery same price, but you can get wireless N, so better deal, no need to use USB wireless N if you want wireless N. You can get it built in on the dell…

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.

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…

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.

Yesterday I got an email saying somebody installed wordpress, and had a url to some spam username on some forum. So one post is missing, did a database restore, which put it back how it was, excluding that one post. Wordpress thinks it needs to be installed if it can’t connect to database, so guessing my host was having problems or something. Simple solution would be to delete /wp-admin/install.php?step=2. And the other most important solution, is to ban the asshole. Not that it’ll do any good, it appears as though their in India. Better off banning everybody inAsia, though I’d think my host would take care of that. What’s really funny, it appears as though their using windows.

164.100.43.41 - - [14/Apr/2009:16:24:48 -0400] "POST /wp-admin/install.php?step=2 HTTP/1.1" 200 360054 "http://vanvalkinburgh.org/2007/03/07/godaddy-cant-login/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"


Must be an outdated zombie computer in India.

What a useless false article, surprised google news links to it. I didn’t pay over $1,000 for my mac, I payed about $599. Pathetic article, don’t listen to morons, that don’t know shit. Mac’s may be expensive, but I’m glad that I won’t need to purchase another computer for sometime. The new windows vista OS, makes older computers useless, you will either have to stay with xp, or use linux, I’d personally be using linux on a normal pc. My mom’ s laptop can’t run windows vista, glad it can’t, that means I don’t have to be the one fixing it, though even if it could she probably wouldn’t upgrade it. She isn’t even done paying it off, and it can’t run the latest winblows OS.

Older ppc mac’s can run leopard, my uncles old iBook could run leopard, if I didn’t sell it. The person that bought it, might of put leopard on it. If the next version of OS X, still supports ppc macs, then that tells you something about apple. Apple likes to support their systems for a long time, non like microshit. Don’t forgot, microsoft has to lie to get people to like vista, they tell them that the OS their showing them is new, when its the crappy vista, they should mention how much the PC was, that is capable of running such a bloated OS. Well the price for new systems might of went down.

Just think about all the people who bought a windows computer a year before vista came out, and it can’t run vista. So their year old PC, can’t run the latest pathetic OS by microshit. Now do the world a favor, and stop buying windows PCS, buy a linux PC, or a mac. Or don’t buy a computer at all.

Oh yeah my uncle is still using a first generation macbook, and it runs leopard fine. Not having to buy a new computer as often, results in you saving money in the long run, and therefore you can buy a quality product, rather then a piece of shit. Ahh my uncle got his macbook in 2006. Now lets see how long he waits, until he buys a new one.

I got my mac mini almost a year ago, the anniversary is coming up in September.

Macs Averaging Twice the Price of PCs || The Mac Observer

Looks like for a limited time you can get a Everex CloudBook for $299. One review says installing windows make it better, that is a false comment, installing windows on a linux laptop, defeats the purpose of the linux laptop. I probably wouldn’t keep the pre installed OS on it, I’d put a better linux distro on it. I won’t be buying one though, don’t need one, iPod touch does enough for my portable needs.

I can’t comment on how well its made or anything, I don’t know if its a good buy, the Asus EEE PC’S, I think have better reviews, and are more popular, so probably getting an Asus EEE PC, would be a better buy, though installing windows on any linux device, should void the warranty, because windows suck, face it, and get over your fucking windows.

Though the best buy would be an iPod touch, because it has a touch screen, and its only $299, and its made by apple, and the 2.0 firmware is buggy, and apple might have a price drop and new products soon, so you might feel ripped off.

* 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.

Today was my last day of school. Now I can sit on my ass and do nothing all day. Oh yeah I got a $50 Visa Gift Card, but I can’t access the site using Safari, because the site only works in IE. Thanks a lot you fucking cunts, now I have to open vmware, just to access your pathetic fucking website.

Update
Just bought a DRM free song off of amazon.com. Hmm I can order some condoms on amazon…

Update
Just ordered the following:
The Last Lecture
Kingston 2GB microSD Memory Card, Retail Package
Mobilelite USB 2.0 9-IN-1 Read

Update
To access giftcardbalance123.com in Safari type the following command in a terminal.

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)\""

Or a better solution use TinkerTool, and enable the Develop menu in Safari, then you can choose the user agent, and change it back easily, without using the terminal.

I have to buy a damn USB cable for it, if I want to put any unsigned programs on my Nokia 6086 phone. The program is windows only, and bluetooth doesn’t work in parallels or virtual box. The USB cable isn’t very expensive on amazon, don’t buy from nokia, they want $50. The Nokia CA-53 Connectivity Cable is what I need. I need to use two programs, one called MobiMB v3.4 DP3 and the other BeHappy. Both can be found here. The BeHappy thing comes with an english readme, or you can use google translator to translate that link. Oh yeah my moms laptop doesn’t have bluetooth.

Update
Just tried vmware fusion, bluetooth works, but that mobi program doesn’t see the hidden folder. It only shows an inbox folder, I read that you need a usb data cable to see the hidden folder. So it looks like I still have to wait, until I get a data cable.

Since I have nothing better to do, I’m going to attempt at putting Mac OS Classic on a usb thumb drive. Basically the emulator and the required files, the emulator Mini vMac, is available for os x, windows, and linux. So I should put both the mac and windows version on my thumb drive. Wonder if simcity classic will run in that.

Mac on a stick how to page

Update
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Done looks like it works, that was easy and fast. Didn’t try the windows version of Mini Vmac yet though, not sure if it’ll work in wine. Can’t run simcity classic, not enough ram in emulator, have to use a different emulator.

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Lux Delux is a risk game, or should I say the best risk game. Only $24.95, and I think you get life time free updates, or at least for almost three years, because my uncle bought it almost three years ago, and his serial still works. Oh yeah Lux Delux is available for OS X, Windows, and linux.

After you unzip it, right click on the Siphon and click Show Package Contents, I assume you are using a mac. Then you will see a file called “accounts.xml”, open it up in a text editor, and put in your info. I don’t have an iPhone, so I have no idea if it’ll work or not. According to comments on touchmods, you will have to ssh into your iPhone to install the application. You can download siphon from here. If that link doesn’t work you can find the latest link to it here. Or you can download it from zshare.

Oh yeah and for windows extract the zip file and double click on “Siphon.app”, it should show up as a folder, at least in xp. Then open the accounts.xml file.

In the accounts.xml file you will see the below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>nat</key>
	<string>NO</string>
	<key>password</key>
	<string></string>
	<key>server</key>
	<string>freephonie.net</string>
	<key>stundomain</key>
	<string></string>
	<key>stunserver</key>
	<string></string>
	<key>timeout</key>
	<string>1800</string>
	<key>username</key>
	<string></string>
</dict>
</plist>

No more windows or sabayon on it, I wiped it clean, and put mythbuntu on it. Finally got the picture to look right, made the screen resolution 640×480. Now I only need an ir blaster, or a tuner with a ir blaster, so it can change the channel on the cable box. With comcast you can tell it to read a show, all it does is change the channel for you, but then you also have to set it to read in mythtv. Kind of a pain, setting it to record two times. My tuner did have a ir blaster, but the crappy cable broke. Kind of want a pchdtv card, it supports digital tv. Only problem is I don’t have any money, so I won’t be buying anything.

If you want free tv guide data for mythtv, then you can follow my how to here.

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Update
The package has been updated, you no longer need to download and install ffmpeg, everything required is included.
Download fixed package
Hopefully the new package is fixed, intel only for now.

Update
You can download a build with video transcoding enabled here. You will also need to download and install ffmpeg.

Version SVN-578 2007-12-19

NOTE: please remove your fuppes.db

* fixed ffmpeg compilation for
older ffmpeg versions (patch from Klaus S. Madsen)
and with missing libswscale
* fixed FAAD decoder for Ubuntu (patch from Klaus S. Madsen)
* fixed stupid buffer overflow in
FFmepgWrapper (patch from Jared D. McNeill)
* MediaServer description values configurable
* libnotify support without gnome-panel-applet (#1814615)
* fixed #1822462 (ImageMagick includes)
* fixed #1815588 (segfault when en-/decoder fails to load)
* added optional refId support for virtual folders
* support for Yamaha RX-N600
* #1838835 temp dir configurable
* pass additional ffmpeg arguments (add node)

I updated the fuppes package to version SVN-578. You can download it here. You have to remove your fuppes.db file, otherwise it won’t work. Open a terminal and do the below:

rm .fuppes/fuppes.db

For the xbox 360 to see it, you might have to add the below to fuppes.cfg:

Under:

<device name="Xbox 360" virtual="Xbox 360" enabled="true">

Add:

<description_values> 
<friendly_name>%s %v : 1 : Windows Media Connect</friendly_name> 
<model_name>Windows Media Connect compatible (%s)</model_name> 
<model_number>2.0</model_number> 
</description_values>

So it should look like the below:

    <device name="Xbox 360" virtual="Xbox 360" enabled="true">
      <description_values> 
      <friendly_name>%s %v : 1 : Windows Media Connect</friendly_name> 
      <model_name>Windows Media Connect compatible (%s)</model_name> 
      <model_number>2.0</model_number> 
      </description_values> 
      <user_agent>Xbox/2.0.\d+.\d+ UPnP/1.0 Xbox/2.0.\d+.\d+</user_agent>
      <user_agent>Xenon</user_agent>
      <xbox360>true</xbox360> 
    </device>

You can find fuppes.cfg, in .fuppes, in your home folder, in finder click go and go to folder and type in .fuppes. Or type nano .fuppes/fuppes.cfg in a terminal.

Listen carefully. They’re my computers. They’re not your computers. I choose to put Windows on some of them. I choose what applications go on them. I choose when, and how, to upgrade them. Is that clear? Well, none of that is clear to Microsoft. We now know— we don’t suspect— we know that Microsoft automatically updates Windows XP SP 2 systems without your knowledge or permission.

Well they aren’t doing anything to either of my computers, neither are running windows. You could block all microsoft ip addresses, so then it won’t be able to update. But the real solution would be to buy a mac, or install linux.

Read

Amazon just released a new mp3 download service, drm free, music, use with whatever the fuck you want. Songs are cheaper too. $0.89, instead of $0.99. Not sure if all the songs are that price, but I searched for weird al, and pink floyd, both have songs for $0.89. Hmm cool the mp3 downloader is for os x, and windows. I can probably convince my mom into using amazon instead of the iTunes store. You don’t have to use their mp3 downloader, its just nice to have the option.

Amazon MP3 Downloads
Amazon MP3 Downloader

My whole profile folder for thunderbird was over 100 MB. Wouldn’t fit on my thumb drive, because I already have other stuff on it, didn’t want to delete anything. So I put it in a shared folder, and after I finished copying it, I deleted it from the shared folder. Good thing I use thunderbird, it works in windows, linux, os x.