December 6th, 2008 by acmelab68
If your WordPress installation is owned and defaced and you’re in a hurry, jump right to the Solution the top of the next page. But watch out, it could be a different problem.
I’m new to WordPress and was asking myself what I can do to secure my Blog. I’ve tried the WP Security Scan plugin, since I’ve stumbled upon it a few times.
I didn’t read the instructions thoroughly and so it came my wp-config.php file wasn’t writable. After the run of the WP – Database Security feature my Blog looked like a fresh install.
I’ve started to read the comments at site of the plugin, but it took me a while to find out what to do.
So a few kids took their chance to defaced my site. Why kids? – Simple: Continue reading ‘Hacked after installing WP Security Scan plugin’
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December 5th, 2008 by acmelab68
Abandonware – a Wikipedia definition:
Abandonware refers to computer software that is no longer sold or supported, or whose copyright ownership may be unclear for various reasons. …
Well – SimCity2000 (SC2000) is told to be abandonware. So I’ve downloaded simcity2000.zip [2.3MB] from the year 1993, and tried to run the INSTALL.EXE with wine. Hehe, good joke. That doesn’t work of course, and I’ve got this: Continue reading ‘SimCity2000 in a DosBox on Linux for free’
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November 27th, 2008 by acmelab68
Don’t you like the gnome-screenshot shadow effect and knapshot region feature?
Well, I like both effects, but unfortunately can’t have them both in one application. Moreover I don’t like to start such overkill applications like Gimp or stuff.
Since I’m an KDE user I do have the ‘region’ goody, and am missing the shadow effect. Now I’ve find out, that I can launch the gnome-screenshot with the KDE environment without any problems. It’s simple done by executing this in the command line: Continue reading ‘KDE’s KSnapshot vs. Gnome’s gnome-screenshot’
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November 25th, 2008 by acmelab68

The Problem:
The default icon size of the avatar in WordPress is too small. (Go directly to step 4, if you’re in a hurry)
As a WordPress novice I’ve been looking for a switch to change the avatar size, but I couldn’t find any. If you login as SiteAdmin and go to Settings->Discussion, there’s only the possibility to choose between
- Mystery Man
- Blank
- Gravatar Logo
- Identicon (Generated)
- Wavatar (Generated)
- MonsterID (Generated)
Continue reading ‘HOWTO change avatar size in WordPress’
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