Totalitarian Regime called Google Inc.
Well this is more of an opening.to what is likely to be an interesting blog.
Lets start off with my first interaction with how much Google AdWords sucks. Now not to sound pessimistic, but it really does suck. It’s an amazing platform, and it can make you tons of money if your smart about it, but if you make one mistake, your finished.
I say this because of the recent experience I had with what I believed was one of the best companies out there. Now let’s start from the beginning.
I had opened an AdWords account month’s before this little issue. I never advertised, never did anything that would violate the contract that Google calls the Terms and Conditions. Now I finally built up some income and decided to get into AdWords, so I tried my credit card, and continually received the same reply, ” Your credit card is denied”.
So off to support. It appears that my account was in the “Review Process”. So I asked them how long it would take as I really wanted to start.
I received the reply
Hello Tyler,
Thank you for your continued patience. After reviewing your account, it has come to our attention that your Google AdWords accounts do not comply with our Terms and Conditions. As a result, your accounts have been suspended, and your ads will no longer run on Google.
To view our Terms and Conditions, please visit https://adwords.google.com/select/tsandcsfinder. We appreciate your cooperation.
Well thats nice. Now being who I am, I wanted to know why, so I looked for about twenty minutes for the support numter(it shouldn’t be that hard).
I was asking Sarah(the support specialist) and was told that the “specialist” team had made the decision and they assured me there was nothing they could do about it, and that there was nobody else I could talk to.
X00n Upgrade going well
Well there are steady updates happening with x00n. One of the main things that I have been working on is the size and speed by condesing useless functions into all purpose libs. I have currently gotten most user based things working and am getting the overall downloading announce working.
I will keep full updates on anything that happens.
USAGoneDirty.com, What’s wrong with this.
Well one of the main things that I don’t like is gossip. If it’s true thats one thing, but if it is completely rumor based, then that’s a different story.
This site is just another reason why the internet need’s to mediated to some extent. This site is supposedly run by Lance Lohan, his alias. He obviously has some issue with his own privacy as his domain also is hidden with the DomainsByProxy service, which hides all required registration information that is suppose to be included with the whois search.
How ironic that he want’s to protect his own privacy, yet the whole point of USAGoneDirty.com is to show complete disregard for peoples privacy.
This is very immoral, and should be, NOT BANNED, but censored.
As of the date of this posting, the owner is a jerk, probably someone that is trying to relive the high school life he never had. He has the site on a so called “Terms Of Service” that he himself doesn’t even follow. You can anonymously post anything, yet he say’s that he ‘moderates’ them.
Mr. Alias Lance Lohan, Yeah Right!
Have fun in court.
x00n: Design Update
Well it’s been a while, but I finally found the bug in the tracker, it seems that when the .torrent was downloaded that the hash(used to track users/keep torrent private) was a little bit off, so it caused errors everywhere.
The visual design is continually being fixed, and sooner or later, once the code is more portable than the multiple files that are currently occupying the package, I will add a template system. Probably one similar to the Wordpress layout design. but that’s really far off compard to where the code is right now.
Once the code finally has an administrative panel, then the template’s will come.
Issues with corrupt packages in Ubuntu APT-GET
Well this is one of the most annoying problems I have encountered yet.
It seems that when you are administering your server from another computer(ex. Window$ PuTTY) and you close it down before you say yes to installing/purging/removing you can get a corrupt package which will then screw you over in the long run.
After searching Google, Yahoo, and my favorite Cuil, I finally found something that helped.
If you are apt-get’ing something, and you keep getting an error at the bottom like
This module does not exist!
dpkg: error processing libapache2-svn (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
libapache2-svn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Then you probably should try:
# dpkg -C as root. This will most likely find the problem.
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure or the configure menu option in dselect:
libapache2-svn Subversion server modules for Apache
I was trying to install Subversion with a web interface.
So you will need to purge the file from dpkg using
# dpkg --purge [pkgWithIssue]
as such
# dpkg --purge libapache2-svn
This solved all my problems and I was able to retry installing it with apt-get and now I have my subversion =] yay
Progress is bliss, x00n Tracker is upgraded
Well this project has become one of the most annoying projects that I have tried. The entire back end is being redone, originally based on the BTSource package. I have gone through every file, and created new, more up to date versions of them, that are also XHTML valid, and plan to go through and make the entire project in OO instead of it’s lengthy procedural approach.
All parts of the script keep you out unless you have a certain clearance to view them. This keeps robots.txt vandals from recking havoc on the site. This also makes it a truly private tracker.
Join if you want, or post here and i’ll get an account for you. :]
Make your Windows XP run faster!!
Well after going through just about everything to get my XP computer to run faster I finally ran across this. It gave me a free scan which not only made my computer faster, but I was finally able to run the popular PS2 emulator at full speed with no lag.
Im not sure what this does that make’s it amazing, but it defiantly finds the crap and removes it.
x00n BETA launched.
Well basically, we finally got our site up on the world wide web, but for now, you can only access it at the IP addressee. http://70.116.72.59/.
If you can’t access it there, it means that we are probably messing around with some configurations to get it on our domain.
If your nerdy and care to know what we are doing, we have to get the DNS up on the machine(I want it there, keeps the site stable).
TrakR – PHP/MySQL based Torrent tracking script.
Well I hope everyone has had a good new year so far, and I am going to give a little update about whats going on around here.
I have been continually going through to make TrakR a reality, and I believe it is time to get it out.
I have discussed this other places out there but not here.
Basically, you should know The Pirate Bay and Demonoid, or maybe you know MiniNOVA, or something more common than all, Napster.
These are all a “torrent bay”, as of which they serve out torrent’s that allow you to download(usually copyrighted) material for free. Peer 2 Peer filesharing. What TrakR aims to be is a simple script to setup so you can host your own torrent sharing script.
More later…..
Let’s get Logical, the hackthissite.org way
Well this is likely to be addressed sooner or later, but I am going to give it to you here.
Most of them are very simple and easy to figure out, but take some time to consider what is there.
We are going to start with exactly what is there.
Logical
First to start off, click on the Logical link in the left sidebar. You will recieve
n order to see the next level you have to change the lvl get parameter to 1 and the pass= parameter to anything you feel like. The file name should be /missions/logic/template.php Please have completed all the basic missions first.
This is supposed to be confusing....don't submit bug reports about not being able to get to level 1.
Please don't submit bug reports about being able to bypass these restrictions...The logic system works.
basically what it’s saying is that you have to change the GET parameter. If you are use to PHP or another web language this should be simple. Using the file http://hackthissite.org/missions/logic/template.php you should change ?lvl to 1 and pass to whatever as it says.
template.php?lvl=1&pass=somethingrandom
More After The Break
