For anyone else trying to figure out the error “The name server is not sufficient or hasn’t been approved.” from the status section on 1&1’s DNS control panel, I’ll tell you the answer. Or, at least, what worked for me.
I had put in a complete hostname for the DNS servers, and 1and1 came back [...]
One warning if you want to use 1&1 for domain names: it takes forever to make any simple changes that every other registrar is able to make right away.
Let’s say you buy a domain name and then want to point it to your DNS servers. Simple enough, right? But with 1and1, it’ll say [...]
After my web host tried to upgrade Apache, but ran into a cPanel/WHM bug and had to go back to the old Apache version, I suddenly had a WordPress install that wasn’t working right. I would get the following error whenever I tried to get to any page in the administration end of things:
Fatal [...]
Ok, I had pretty much ignored the whole Facebook Beacon privacy controversy that’s been going on over the past few weeks. I kept seeing references to something, and just didn’t get interested enough to find out what was going on. And now it’s too late. No, wait, not too late. Just [...]
This is a weird one. The MGM Grand offers high-speed wireless and wired Internet connections. Being somewhat security-conscious — and being in town for Black Hat and Defcon — I figured it was safest to use the wired connection so that people couldn’t sniff everything I was doing.
Luckily (apparently) for me, the wired [...]
I haven’t been able to get into my Gmail account for 40 minutes now, and it’s a lot tougher to deal with than I would have expected. No more Google Chat (or Gtalk, or whatever it’s really called), no idea what e-mails I’m missing. At least I can still get to my Google [...]
I have several WordPress blogs, most of which are running out-of-date versions of WordPress just because of the hassle of updating them. I know the good folks at WP/Automattic make it pretty easy, but you still have to make a backup, FTP a ton of files up to your server without overwriting your theme, [...]
I was working on someone’s laptop that was running XP SP1, and desperately needed SP2 and some other important patches (and, apparently, needs automatic update turned on.)
I go to Windows Update and start installing Service Pack 2. It’s working on it, working on it, on and on. But it’s not making much progress. [...]
Looks like WordPress 2.1 (code name Ella) was released a little less than an hour ago. Look at me with my breaking geeky news.
Anything good in the new version? Let’s take a too-much-time-on-my-hands point-by-point look, just because I can.
Dreamhost recently started something new where they are reducing the amount of disk space and bandwidth that you get with each hosting plan every day. For example, right now for the “Level 1″ hosting plan, it says you get 194.5 GB of disk space, and “On Jan 15th starting Disk drops to: (Sign up [...]