Something has been hijacking the Adsense Publisher ID on some of my pageloads, inserting someone else’s ID in the Google ads instead of mine. I’ve been investigating this with some members of the Google Help forums and an HTTP debugger.
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Apr
26
2010
26
2010
Are Social Bookmarking Buttons Hijacking AdSense Publisher IDs?
Apr
23
2010
23
2010
How to Get a Wireless HP OfficeJet Printer Working with a Linux Laptop
The tale of the printer…
I have an HP OfficeJet J6480 all-in-one printer. This is connected via USB to our Windows XP desktop machine. I also have a Linux (Kubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”) Laptop which connects to the wireless network setup by our router. The printer also connects wirelessly to that network. Thus, if I’m on the network on my laptop I have access to the printer.
This is the story of how I got the printer to work after having it stop working inexplicably one day. I consider myself a Linux novice; I am comfortable using it, but uncomfortable administering it.
Setting up the printer via USB on the Windows machine was trivially easy. I was unable, though to connect to the printer wirelessly either using Windows or Linux (my laptop is dualboot). Eventually, after spending far too long with HP Technical Support, I realised that the problem was simply that the router was using a channel with too much interference on it. By switching the channel to something else, we could confirm that the laptop (in Windows mode) could connect to the printer wirelessly. They hadn’t heard of Linux, though, and so I was on my own from there.
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Jan
5
2010
5
2010
My Joomla Website was Hacked – Here’s What I Did Next
When my Joomla website was hacked with rogue javascript, it was done unobtrusively: no massive deleting of files, or ‘pwned’ claims on the home page.
So it was obviously done for a hidden, longer term purpose, rather than to take the site down, and that worried me too. Could it be rescued?
This is a long post, detailing the steps I took to trace the problem, minimise the damage and rescue the website, so the steps I took are linked in this step-by-step list:
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