Archive for January, 2009

Domain Name Search Engine Registration Mail Scam

Believe it or not scams even come through snail mail. This has been around for a while but it is the first time I’ve seen it personally. The overall goal of this scam is to make you think that your domain name is expiring and to hurry and send them money before it expires.

Here is the main body of the letter:

As a courtesy reminder, we are sending you this notification for you business Domain name search engine registration. This letter is to inform you that it’s time to send in your registration and save.

You must complete your domain name search engine registration to guarantee your listing on the Web, and now is the time to register and save.

Failure to complete your Domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may result in cancellation of this offer making it difficult for customers to locate you on the web.

Privatization allows for the consumer a choice when registering. Search engine subscription includes domain name search engine submission. You are under no obligation to pay the amounts stated below unless you accept this offer. Do not discard; this notice is not an invoice it is a courtesy reminder to register your domain name search engine listing so your customers can locate you on the web.

This notice for: WWW.DOMAIN.COM will expire on 02/10/2009 Act Today!

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Information Security, Scams 2 Comments

Hosting Performance

So as I was making some posts and doing some backend work within wordpress I noticed some really slow requests… If you browse my blog what do you think about the performance? I hadn’t had complaints before and I wonder if something is going on right now (shared hosting…)

Amidst the fray I’m thinking more and more about hosting myself. I’ve migrated one of my clients partially to this host so I could use php 5+ but am reluctant to move them completely here if the performance isn’t really there.

I like the prices available @ slicehost. It will require me to secure & me to monitor etc etc but it is probably worth the performance increase and unshared hosting.

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Monday, January 12th, 2009 Ramblings No Comments

Creating JSON as a select result in a MySQL Query

So I had this crazy idea at work, I needed to get all the data out of an entire table in a single column. So I decided to return the table as a preformatted JSON array that I could decode straight into a php array for manipulation.

The Code:
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Monday, January 12th, 2009 MySQL, Programming, php 1 Comment

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