Warning: HostGator leaks your cPanel usernames, script path, and more

Once upon a time the HostGator was a great hosting company – great technical support, great prices, good performance, predictable policy, etc., and positive-thinking CEO who blogs about the company, about fortunes and failures… Fast forward to year 2012. CEO and founder Brent Oxley sells HostGator to EIG. They are famous of “acquiring a large …

Google Drive may be silently renaming your files

Just a friendly warning. If you try to store copy of standard Apache HTTP Server web root, git repository, some Linux directories, etc in the Google Drive, then do not be surprised when Google silently corrupts the filenames by renaming dot (.) to underscore (_). For me this is happening to nix hidden files (begins …

Windows Update – Service not running or Windows System apps appear as from unknown publisher

There are two symptoms to the same problem in Microsoft Windows: Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer When you Run As Administrator mmc.exe, notepad.exe, regedit.exe and any other program, you get — Do you want to allow the following program from …