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Scott Samuel Comes Out Of Hiding Again

David — Tue, 28 May 2013 16:44:25 +0000

Please see this thread for an explanation of why this content was removed: https://sneakydave.com/community/threads/legal-threats-from-scott-samuel-and-fornojo.1621/

vBulletin Software has Officially Shit The Bed

David — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:40:04 +0000

Internet Brands’ QA Team Reveals Customer IP Addresses

David — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:36:48 +0000

vBulletin 5 Connect is almost here, and the IB QA team is busily trying to set up a test environment up at http://vbtest.biz, using data imported from the production/live vbulletin.com forum installation. Problem is, they didn’t think to password protect the forum, and a good number of posts in the forums have debug information attached …

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Who Really Wrote The Rolling Stones’ “Angie”?

David — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:12:36 +0000

Was it San Francisco’s Terry Nolan? I recently added this storyto the forums. Fascinating story. Wish somebody could get that reel to reel transferred to digital to find out for sure. The Real Story Of The Rolling Stones’ “Angie”?

Random Music Posts moved to Forums

David — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:30:10 +0000

I’m not using the blog to post any music information or videos that I like. It’s just too much work. Instead, they are in the Fluff category of the forum. http://sneakydave.com/community/forums/fluff.6/

Avast Anti-Virus and NETGEAR Router GENIE Interface

David — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:53:42 +0000

I spent almost 2 days trying to configure a new NETGEAR WNDR4500 wireless router. Out of the box, the router worked great, and had no problems, but when I got into the GENIE admin interface to make changes, it was an exercise in futility. It looks like the browser based UI was rewritten to take …

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How to get around Omaha World Herald’s Nag Screen

David — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:41:38 +0000

Lately, the Omaha World Herald’s web site omaha.com has been nagging people to subscribe to the paper in order to view the web site. You get only a few page visits per day before the nag screen pops up begging the visitor to subscribe to the online subscription. If the visitor denies signing up for …

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vBulletin 5 won’t have the same features as vBulletin 4 out of the gate

David — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:31:20 +0000

UPDATE: vBulletin 5.0 BETA 10 was released to the public for purchase on 9/11/2012, with disappointing reviews. Many more features are missing from the original release, and there are restrictive changes to the new license. Buyer beware. There’s been another leaked communication from a survey that Invision Brands sent to customers of the vBulletin Mobile …

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Thinking of buying vBulletin 4? Hold off, vBulletin 5 is just around the corner!

David — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:41:10 +0000

vBulletin is a licensed forum software package that has been stagnant and bug-ridden since version 4 was released in 2009. Joe Rosenblum, CTO of Internet Brands, has promised that the next version of vBulletin (version 5) will be released “later this year [2012]”. If you were holding off on upgrading your vBulletin 3.x due to …

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George Tannous gets almost 3 years in federal pen for investment fraud

David — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:22:27 +0000

Former IRS agent sentenced to prison in investment scam A former Internal Revenue Service agent was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges related to an investment scheme that caused victims to lose more than $8 million. George Tannous pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges of conspiracy and filing …

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