As promised… I’m going to show how you going to disable the “upgrade wordpress” nags. For this tutorial, I’m using Wordpress 2.3.2 as my test subject. Also take note that this is a disabling method, not removal. I know this information is close to being useless, but since I know “the how to”, might as well I wrote it down.

Now that we are clear on the simple introduction, …

Sorry folks, today’s entries which was suppose to be disabling WordPress update notification was overwritten by something which I forgotten to include yesterday.

Alright… what was taught was correct, but I’ve forgotten that phpBB has a language file too.

So what you need to do is open “languages/lang_english/lang_admin.php” and remove this: // // Version Check // $lang['Version_up_to_date'] = ‘Your installation is up to date, no updates are available for your version of phpBB.’; $lang['Version_not_up_to_date'] = ‘Your installation …

I’m not really sure if this information is really useful though.

Let us takes into this scenario… if you are using a heavily modded phpbb2 forum, it’s most likely you won’t be able to update your phpbb into a newer version. One possible reason might be that the main coding are altered.

When that happens, then why do you still have the message “Your phpBB is not up to date” in the …

This is a clever idea in blocking spambot for phpbb 2 (for phpbb 3, click here).

It was posted by jalaln, a member from phpbb community. This modification is to block registrations from timezone GMT-12 that is used by almost all spambots.

Here’s the coding: # #—–[ OPEN ]—————————————— # includes/usercp_register.php # #—–[ FIND ]—————————————— # if ( !($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) ) { message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, ‘Could not obtain next user_id information’, ”, __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql); } $user_id = …

Another method that is most commonly seen on many I.T. related blogs is a method on how to download MP3 using Google.

I’ve actually have tried tested it out, but I preferred using P2P more.

Although on certain occasion, we can actually find the rarest mp3 through this Google Hack instead of P2P. In my opinion, it’s not actually ‘hacking Google’ cause the method …