Tag Archives: Error

Prevent copying of files to USB drive

By Ajith | Published: March 4, 2008

A simple and easy trick to prevent others from copying files from your PC to a USB device like a USB pen drive.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, File, Registry | 33 Comments

What to do when you can’t log-in to blogger

By Ajith | Published: February 23, 2008

Some times Blogger will show a “server was encountering a problem” message when you try to login and will give you an error code and say that an engineer had been notified. There are some things you can try to login to blogger when such an error occurs. If Blogger home page won’t load or [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Blog, Tips, Web | 2 Comments

Google has removed the warning for results from this blog

By Ajith | Published: January 24, 2008

After many review requests to and have finally removed the warning “This site may harm your computer!” from the results of this blog. My previous assumptions had been wrong and I discovered something that was even worse inside the template. There was an unknown script inserted inside the lsidebar.php file of the limau orange theme. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Google, Report | Leave a comment

Being ignored by Google, your domains past may be haunting you

By Ajith | Published: January 15, 2008

Have you ever been in a situation where any of the Google services won’t index you even after months of submitting. There is a fair chance that even if you have got legit articles and valuable links, your site or blog won’t appear on Google. I came to know about this from an article by [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Report | Leave a comment

Do I have badware, Google thinks so, so does stopbadware dot com

By Ajith | Published: January 14, 2008

I never knew I am hosting badware until I saw Google telling me the same. Of late Google has been showing the Badware warning along with results to my site that a visitor may get infected by Malware if they visit my site. As far as I know I have no intention to distribute malware [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Error | Leave a comment

Why is my template selection page in WordPress showing cryptic CSS

By Ajith | Published: January 12, 2008

If you find a broken template selection page, like the one shown here, on your WordPress blog – don’t be worried. Last day while I was editing this blogs template I came across such a page. It didn’t take me long to figure out what was wrong. But until I found the reason I actually [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Edit | Leave a comment

Unable to create a new category after the WP release 2.3.2

By Ajith | Published: January 6, 2008

I am encountering a strange problem after I updated the blog to . I cannot create new categories directly from the WP Write Post page. I don’t think this is a browser related issue coz wherever I go and whatever browser I use (both on Linux and Windows) the problem persists. Does anybody else encounter [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Error | Leave a comment

Unexpected error on your webpage home – function.main failed to open stream

By Ajith | Published: January 4, 2008

Sometimes cryptic error messages may bug your wordpress system. Here is one such error I encountered and how I overcame it.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Permissions | 3 Comments

Stumbleupon how a site should not be – Do you think so?

By Ajith | Published: December 20, 2007

Please pardon me guys I’m a little out of my mind now, haven’t slept till now and the time turns out to be 3:18 in the morning. I had a journey in a local train and got disconnected from the net thrice before I got here. All this to see Stumbleupon had a clumsy user interface) Well it has been sometime since my last log-on to Stumbleupon. After I logged in I thought it would [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Web | 3 Comments

What to do if your firefox wont load a wordpress blog

By Ajith | Published: December 17, 2007

It is completely normal that a site doesn’t load. but it is not that normal when the site won’t load only on Firefox. Well of late I have found that Firefox running on certain Windows XP boxes infected with virus won’t load a WordPress blog correctly. An example is the machine I am currently writing [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Blog, Firefox, Web, Wordpress | 4 Comments