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Exabytes is celebrating its 7th anniversary and rewarding its customers with 7 great deals.

1. Express-All-You-Want — Exabytes loves your feedback. Submit your creative feedback in about any format (article, song, video…) and you stand a chance to win the Apple 8GB iPod Touch that worth USD299! You do not need to be an Exabytes’ client to participate.
2. Swipe 2 Win — Each time you buy Exabytes’ product with your credit card, you will stand a chance to win up to USD277 of credit. If your order transaction ID’s last digits is “7″, you win USD27 of credit. If the last 2 digits are “77″, then you win USD277 of credit. Winners will be drawn every day in May 2008.
3. Server Management Plan Discount — 70% recurring discount to Exabytes server management plans for new signup.
4. The Wonders of Domain Names — Exabytes offer Top Level Domain (.com/net/org/info/biz) registration at only USD7.77/year.
5. Increment in affiliate commission — 50% increment in affiliate commission, which means USD30 per hosting sale.
6. USD17 discount for all EBiz Gold — Every purchase of 300GB space EBiz Gold plan and enter the coupon code: SuperSeven will get USD17 discount.
7. Exaybytes Gift — With every purchase of EBiz Gold Plan or BizGrid Plan, you will receive Exabytes limited edition gift (T-shirt and/or Umbrella)

Most promotions will be ended at the end of May 2008. Make sure you grab the deals before too late! For more information, please visit Super Celebration for Exabytes’ 7th Anniversary

*This is a sponsored post. Disclosure Policy*

It is quite common that mod_security is interfering the functions of your web applications. mod_security is installed and enabled by your web server admin but you can still disable it for your individual website using .htaccess file by following this tutorial.

“mod_security is an Apache module (for Apache 1 and 2) that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications.” — HowtoForge

Disable mod_security in .htaccess file

1. If you do not have one yet, an .htaccess file in the folder of your web application
2. To disable mod_security COMPLETELY, add the following line to the .htaccess file:
   SecFilterEngine Off
   OR, to disable HTTP POST scanning only, use the following instead:
   SecFilterScanPOST Off
3. Save the file and test your web application to check whether disabling mod_security has solved your problem.

I recommend you to try SecFilterScanPOST Off first, instead of disabling mod_security completely.

Click to continue “How to disable mod_security in .htaccess file” →

I have a community site powered by Drupal but it cannot display chinese characters, even though it supports unicode by default.

All non-English characters are displayed as question marks (???). I tried to reinstall Drupal but without any luck. Yesterday, I finally discovered the problem and solved it!

The problem

Last time, I installed Drupal using the cPanel Fantastico script installer. The installer created database using Latin collation. That’s why Drupal cannot display Chinese characters because the database is not unicode (UTF-8).

Lesson learned: Do not install script using cPanel Fantastico.

The solution

The solution is simple, correct the tables’ collation to UTF-8 using the following SQL query (thanks to neo_fox):

ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

I ran the query using phpMyAdmin found in cPanel hosting control panel. But the drawback is that you need to run the SQL query for every single table…

I modified 20+ tables and it works! Now my friends can leave chinese message on the community website.

WWF Malaysia has created two wallpapers for May 2008. One of them is “Man of the forest”, the Orangutan. It is a cute baby orangutan. On top of it is the calendar of May 2008.

The wallpapers come in different sizes to suit your monitor size, from 800×600 to 1680×1050.

After the Massive Delay of AdSense Stats (fixed in a day), Google AdSense announced the Known Issues Page.

AdSense Known Issues Page is a list of currently known AdSense issues and possible work-arounds. For example, the delayed updates of AdSense stats are listed:

Issue: Reports are taking longer than usual to generate, and aren’t showing complete data for earnings, clicks, and impressions.

Work-Around: None at the moment, but rest assured that this delay in reports won’t affect your earnings or payments.

Updates: This issue has been resolved. Reports should be up to date and correct, with all previously missing information now showing.

While the Known Issues Page is informative for AdSense publishers but there is no option to subscribe to the page updates to be informed immediately on new issues.

Anyway, there is a workaround. You can use ChangeDetection service to notify you on web page changes.