Netmoirs of A Solemn Rover

Joomla 1.5 Custom CHMOD File

My web hosting has recently upgraded their facilities. Upgrades is a good thing, and that shows how well the company is willing to advance themselves in catering their clients by equipping themselves with the latest technology. At times big guys like these may have forgotten - forgotten to fiddle their settings. Mainly this issues arise can be traced back to the person behind the panel's professionalism, whether he understood ftp permissions or not. As webmasters CHMOD is a big thing for us,...

TransMY Was Compromised

This morning I had trouble going online. Only at around 7am I had been 'relieved'. Checked my Transformers site as usual, only to find it empty. The only message i got is a database connect failure. I immediately logged in my webserver's control panel and via phpmyadmin, I find my database was there but EMPTY. Not even 1% of data has been retained and reserved for me! I quickly fired up an email to tech support asking them what's going on. The site has a massive load of data amounting....

Yorkshireman Visit

A Yorkshireman visit - was actually the second Mat Salleh visit to my house, and they are both Brits but they don't know each other. It was Chong Mei's (my cousin) boyfriend made this visit today. They were supposed to attend Granny's birthday yesterday but they both FFK-ed big time because of travelling woes. This Yorkshireman Mat Salleh is far more adventurous than my own buddy. He ate almost anything served on the table. Good on you matey, (or Josh F). Had a chance to mingle and do...

9th By-Election in 9th State

There we go again! Another by-election for Pakatan Rakyat to test their ground has just appeared with the death of BN's assemblyman Azman Md.Noor, the incumbent of Bagan Pinang, a small Malay concentrated constituency located in the south of Port Dickson. With issues of Hindu temple in Selangor and Kg.Buah Pala still looming around, this breaking news was indeed a karma-come-around slap in the Election Commission's face for favouring BN in the Perak constitutional crisis. Nonetheless, it...

Malaysian Most Annoying Road Habit is Tailgating

According to an online poll conducted as part of the Malaysians Unite for Road Safety (MUFORS), aggressive tailgating and drivers who don’t use their car indicators are some of the most annoying habits on Malaysian roads. Out of 1,000 participants to date, 11.2 per cent felt that tailgating, which includes forcing other drivers to make way and flashing of headlights, annoys them most while another 11.2 per cent have a problem with drivers who don’t use their indicators. Mat Rempit (9...