Author Archives: ayn

How do I get Google back at A9?

So Amazon/Alexa/A9 dumped Google for MSN Live search, I use A9 mainly because of the PI/2 discount at Amazon, and it also searches images, blogs, technorati, and Google at the same time, which is kindda nice. Now they have this OpenSearch thing where anyone can create an OpenSearch search for their own website. (Kavin showed me how to do one with WordPress and it was cool!)

But I refuse to use MS Live search, I’m not partial to Goog or anything, but for web searches it works pretty well. Maybe I’ll write a Google OpenSearch thing and add it to A9, but I’m sure they will delete it right away… WTF…

Drop a line in the comment box if you figure out how to add Google back to A9.

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Switched back to using Flock as my browser in Windows

Last time I checked out Flock, it was cool but it crashed pretty often. I switched back to Firefox, which crashes pretty often too. I just upgraded Flock to the latest version and I like it. With one exception; in the blog editor’s WYSIWYG mode, when you pop up the insert link dialog box, you can’t copy/cut-and-paste there, what gives?? That dialog box doesn’t look native, maybe it’s in Java??

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Now I don’t feel so bad…

Looks like the same script kiddie attacked Apple Korean’s site as well…

Apple’s Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker.The attack, carried out by someone working under the name ‘Dinam’, who claimed in his post to be Turkish, was brought to the attention of silicon.com last Thursday.

Apple online store hacked – WebWatch – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

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server got hacked

It was bad, still working on getting stuff back up. I am pretty sure it got in via the XML-RPC exploit in older installation of WordPress. so if you’re running WordPress on my server, please go upgrade it to the latest one if you want xmlrpc.php, I have removed that file from all installation except mine. I think WP from 1.5 on is safe.

If you found any useful info on details on this “Hacked by Metlak” or “Turkish Hack” attack, please post comments to this thread. I’ve only opened up this one blog, hopefully I am safe, we’ll see…