Category How I solved it

Avast breaks the ability to create new User on Win

I had to make a new user on a Windows 7 workstation machine, and the simple create user procedure failed miserably,  I thought maybe there are some permission problems.

The user created with GUI ( either control panel or MMC)  or from the console with the "net user command", spawned multiple 'profile' and 'temp' folders in the USERS folder, didn't create the necessary registry entries.

And if you logged in with any of the created users you got a perpetual "preparing desktop" and when ...

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WordPress 4.7.0 4.7.2 _e() function, languages and broken translations

Some time ago I read about a critical vulnerability present in WordPress 4.7.0 and 4.7.1(it was seriously severe, it primarily let attackers change data in your DB using restful API), and I had a website that I did back in 2015, the problem is that I did the theme using _e function(mostly on the front page) for translations as it was a multilingual website. Anyway, I updated from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 and <<BAM>> all translations were broken. It was a bit curious though why this u... View full article

Google results very slow display - Maybe a WebKit Bug

A few days back I had started noticing that results displayed in google were delivered awful slow. I thought maybe my main router doesn't work as it should, I checked and saw that current resources consumption levels and the average on last days resource consumption were below 1%, I had the latest pFsense firmware update and no noticeable problem in the logs. In fact, it was unusual as more than one device(with different OS-es) was affected by the problem, so I did a bit of research and found ou... View full article

wp-downloadmanager bug fix 1.68.1

So if you want a WordPress plugin for managing downloads and to be capable of working with external URLs you can choose this plugin(wp-downloadmanager). Unfortunately on the WordPress plugin directory, there aren't so many plugins that have in their design external URLs, of course, external URLs aren't what you would want most of the time but there are some cases where such URLs are preferred and this was my case too. After installing this plugin I detected that it had a bug exactly when working... View full article