Pakistan invents water powered motorcycle
According to this report, inventors in Pakistan have created a kit which will allow a motorcycle to be run almost entirely on water.
Install old version of wordpress
Imagine the horror.
Installed a new version of wordpress and I could neither see nor edit my posts!
Unless you’re happy to wait any length of time until the bug is fixed, the remedy for this is simple – you need to
Install an old version of wordpress
Steps
- Download old version: Pick the version stable release BEFORE you encountered the problems. eg. 4.2.2 – Nothing works > Pick version 4.1.7 and unzip it.
- Go to your ftp program. Fire it up and go into your base directory.
Select the files > wp-includes AND wp-admin.
- DELETE them.
- From the file you’ve just unzipped, UPLOAD the old versions of these files.
- Select all the files in the base directory of the unzipped file. OVERWRITE all the files in your base directory.
Go onto your site. Hey presto!
Your wordpress should work.
Admin page
Logging into admin, you’ll get a couple of introductory screens telling you to update your database when you first log on.
Ignore these.
And that’s it!!
Test your cyber age – How old do you REALLY look?
Ever wondered how old you REALLY look.
The camera never lies, they say. Combine that with the ‘no-nonsense’ approach of your normal PC, and you have a sure way of getting a snapshot of how old you are, objectively.
How old do I look?
Here’s some evidence. It’s done using an online application that guesses your age. Built by Microsoft using technology available on the ‘net, Microsoft’s Face detection API, an analytics suite, which uses a lot of sample media to create a repository of accessible and applicable media profiles, be it sound, face, visual profiles or linguistics.
Physical appearance
Two photographs taken at around the same time.
This one is with my primary school teacher.
Neither of these photographs guessed my correct age, which is 40. …
Driver 370.88/340.52 nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Symptoms
The symptoms generally show up as:-
Regular crashing and bluescreening. This is accompanied by a message in your notifications error in the bottom right hand side of your screen informing you – “Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and was recovered“.
It looks like this.
There’s a general discussion about the symptoms and the solutions in these two threads, one of them from the official NVIDIA site, the other from and enthusiasts site. …
Life behind the great firewall of China: VPN in China
Update China internet – January 2015
As of 1st January 2015, the Chinese government further tightened it’s grip on the nation’s internet access.
A rude awakening for many expats hoping to get on the ‘net – nothing worked.
Things have calmed down a little, but the fall-out is as follows:-
1) All foreign sites are throttled.
Regardless of CDN’s, font-libraries, supplementary elements, platforms etc.; foreign sites are subjected to government level ‘throttling’.
2) Mobile VPN’s don’t work.
Astrill, one of China’s largest VPN’s – no longer able to support mobile VPN access.
Hidemyass, the VPN I use, connection is intermittent at best.
This thread on Shaghai expat reports, some are experiencing more luck than others, depending on what VPN you subscribe to.
China’s Internet access – Life behind the great firewall
Since May of last year, when the troubles in Hong Kong first erupted, the Chinese government has been changing the way the internet works in
China.
We’re all aware of the ‘great wall of China’, the system by which China monitors and prevents sites it doesn’t wish it’s residents to view.
Previously, this would have been Facebook, Twitter, certain searches or selected content would be blocked.
Also Youtube.
Not really a massive problem, you could still update your phone, look at maps and do a quick translation. At home, sites were slow to download, but acceptable.
Since May 2014, that’s all changed
China internet restrictions since May 2014
The following sites have been blocked wholesale.
Twitter, Facebook, Google (all sites), Soundcloud, Instagram.
New York Times, Bloomberg, selected international Wikipedia pages, Wikileaks, BBC news and radio.
Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, iStockPhoto.
Flickr, Change.org and most VPN sites.
China now throttles all foreign websites
Something the government does now is ‘throttle‘ foreign websites. ‘Throttle‘ it, makes elements ‘timeout’ and leaving you with an improperly rendered and unreadable page.
This maybe due to font libraries, or CDN (content distribution networks), such as Google font libraries or Edgecast respectively.
Many sites access these services to serve content in a more efficient manner. When this content is blocked, the whole site fails to work.
As a foreign speaking resident, this causes you problems.
The only way to get around this is –
China VPN
There are a number of companies offering VPN, or Virtual Private Network services
**A VPN is a protocol executed to access the internet through a tunnel, a tunnel where your real IP address and location is never revealed.
to get round these restrictions, and be able to go on the websites and access the services you would at home.
I won’t trawl through them, there are sites which tell you how much and the relative features etc.
I picked the one with the largest network of servers. Hide My Ass!
It’s got services in Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. …
Youtube HaCk3d
Surprise.
Went to go on youtube this afternoon, check for outlandish videos to pass the time. The site had been hacked.
(It’s nice to know they are running Plesk, which is what they use on my web server).
Muslimist
No doubt, my first thoughts turn to the Muslimists and the media furor surrounding their little movement.
Also, Kim Jong Un, who’s always in an angry state.
Maybe someone hit the wrong button. But it’s strange, the ‘favicon’ is still showing in the top right corner of the tab.
Mainstream
It’s only 6 o’clock in the morning here, (as you can see from the clock at the bottom right hand side of the screen), whether the mainstream will report on this remains to be seen.
Whatever the case, I can’t get on the site and have to find something else to entertain my sick mentality.
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Support a fledgling artist for Christmas
So…
Was looking at my favorite websites and discovered this.
Support new industries, enterprises and artists.
Yes, if you feel like you have a few quid in your pocket, you can become a benefactor.
All in need of cash, the reward could be a link of their website to offering to write a song for you (that would be nice).
As us in the creative industry know, funding is often a problem to organise and to make consistent.
Choose anything
For $1 per month, you can offer your support.
They have a large database of projects and artists.
I am currently supporting one of my favorite website where the advertisers have pulled out.
You can have a look here http://www.patreon.com/chinasmack.
Christmas is coming
As Christmas is coming up, this may be a new and creative way of sourcing that gift that shows u care (aww).
If you wish to support this site, you can do so here http://www.patreon.com/michaeltyler