Last month cPanel hosted a webinar for cPanel 11.25 where there were reportedly over 2000 attendees from all over the world. One thing I guess they didn’t realize is that the list email address for all the attendees, webinar[at]cpanel.net, has a reply-to that posted a reply all to anyone on the list, unmoderated. Oops.  It all started this morning when I checked my email, to find an email from the webinar mailing list to the webinar mailing list, apparently directed as a reply to someone else:

Mario,thank you, appreciate it :)
You aren’t by chance attending webhosting day in Germany, are you ?
I pre-registered, but am not 100% sure to attend yet.

This email was obviously referring to Mario Rodriguez from cPanel/r1Soft . The best things about this is that it seemed like there was an actual conversation going on, as there was a good flow of sequential events. Here was the initial response to the mysterious emails:

Why am I receving this email ??

Well, duh, you’re on a mailing list. Obviously one that is not configured properly to moderate posting. Now we’re starting to realize this:

Looks like this is a mailing list which is circulating replies!

Exact! In fact, it is a mailing list bad configured…that is sending replies to all members !!

This someone set up a bad forwarder =)

It seems cPanel listing is sending reply to all members.

Looks like a group mailing list to me =) Perhaps an oversight on cPanel’s part?

Let’s also keep in mind that most of these people are technical staff from various hosting providers. Naturally, now that we know there’s a problem we’re going to take full advantage:

Hello from Russia! :)

Hello from Brazil :¬)

A bit of spam before it gets fixed then….http://amplicate.com/rocks/cpanel

Personal Spam also? You can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/******** Cpanel and systems administrator for over 10 years ;)

Greetings from Greece too :))))))) Should I spam this list with an incredible offer for .eu domain registrarion for 5EUR/yr exclusively for list members? :)))))))

I took it that they wanted me to come to Germany…boss said no, though =(

Awww, where’s the fun in that?

Anyone in London Fancy meeting up for Lunch this week?

I’m not in london but I wouldn’t mind lunch. a/s/l? just kidding =)

I can’t make it to London but if anybody is in Aruba lunch is on me! (playing the odds here ;)

By now, cPanel acknowledged that there was a problem:

I am working on this right now, my apologies for the inconvenience.

Yes, sorry for the confusion and mass emails. We will have it fixed shortly.

And then you have the people who start to get a little pissed:

Please DO NOT send any more replies.

Seriously, stop sending emails to the list. It’s obvious no one knew about it and it’s obviously not correctly setup since no one opted in and there isn’t an opt out link.

It does look like it is configured to relay email to everybody if you send an email to the list. Just hold off sending emails and in a little bit somebody from cPanel will fix it. I am sure they didn’t mean to set it up so that everybody gets emails from the list. No reason to flood the inboxes of everybody else :)

Man my blackberry is going to go off every minute now with twitter spam and .eu domain spam. Bah Thanks cPanel ;)


And then the emails stopped so cPanel appears to have fixed the problem. Kind of fun while it lasted…

So if you read my post a little while back about my lasting suspicion that my roommates and I are giving room and board to a few unwanted furry little bastards, I can now confirm that my suspicion is correct. On Christmas eve I was doing some dishes and I noticed that Capone was staring blankly at a cabinet by the refrigerator. After Harley joined him and they both sat and stared at one for a good 10 minutes, I figured they just wanted something in the cabinet so I opened it up to see what was so appealing. I swear as soon as I did that Capone stuck his face in there and Harley pushed him aside and just dove in, pulling out something in her mouth as well as a shelf full of vases that came crashing to the floor.

It was about then that I heard this squeaking noise like what you hear in dog toys, and realized that she was carrying a big stinkin’ rat in her mouth. Though the thing had just gotten caught in a rat trap that our exterminator put in and was well alive and dangling out between Harley’s teeth, the entire kitchen started to smell like someone microwaved a dead fish wrapped inside a tortilla filled with pickles.

You can thank my sister Torie for wanting to document this experience by taking pictures:

So what do blood-hungry puppies do after catching furry intruders? Well, Capone says, “Please sir may I have another” :

Then they both pass out from a hard night’s work:

This is definately something I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to blog about.  This site that one of my coworkers came across (that we also happen to host) allows you to virtually give yourself a boob job:

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If you go to the demo section you’ll have a little picture of a petite blonde and a choice of your cup size ( A – D ).  Of course we’ll leave it to Brad to take is a step further:

My phrase last week was “sexual chocolate” — I have no idea where I heard it from or why I had such an urge to repeat it and linger on the laughter and dirty looks. I though it was something like chocolate that you use during, um, relations, but it appears that I was sooooo wrong as there are many meanings:

Meaning 1: A band in the movie “Coming to America”

Sexual Chocolate is the name of a Melbourne, AU cover band that performs in night clubs, not to be confused with the name of Eddie Murphy’s band in the 1988 movie “Coming to America” that performed Whitney Houston’s single “Greatest Love of All.”

Meaning 2: A song by Cee-lo with the following chorus:

They call it the – sexual chocolate
Eh, good God y’all – sexual chocolate
Ho, take it easy now – sexual chocolate
Hey, eh-eyyyy now now – sexual chocolate
Oooh, and they call it the – sexual chocolate
Ho, good God y’all – sexual chocolate
Huh, take it easy now – sexual chocolate
Ahhhh-hah hah-ahhhh-ahhhh – sexual chocolate

Meaning 3: A 60′s and 70′s term used to describe gay, black men.

Meaning 4: What this guy from Sparrows Point, Maryland calls himself on MySpace

Meaning 5: Something like 2girls1cup.com  (sorry, no link because it’s against our TOS)

Meaning 6: A sexy person dipped in chocolate

“Give me a piece of that sexual chocolate!”

However, The definition that won the prize was given quite bluntly on urbandictionary.com as  “chocolate that happens to be sexual

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Thank you, urbandictionary.com, for being so politically correct in a time of crisis.

A lot of my friends have kids, so this year when they all wanted to go to Lynnhaven Mall to get their kids some pictures with Santa I felt a little left out. I really have no desire to ever have kids, nevertheless to take them to see some creepy old man who likes to have little kids sitting on his lap all the time. But since we were going anyways and I decided to take Capone for his first Christmas with Santa. I put on his little Santa slippers and took him to the mall where all the little kids were in line to take pictures and stuff, only I was standing there will a little pit bull who was growling and scaring all the kids away. Then I found out that Mr. Santa is allergic to dogs, so he refused to hold Capone on his lap and insisted that I duck into the picture to make sure that he didn’t bite his head off. They also made me sign a waiver so that I would be responsible if he attacked anyone.

Apparently Capone doesn’t like Santa either, because we couldn’t even get one picture of him with his cute puppy face on. Take note of the evil scowl that’s pasted across Capone’s face every time Santa was in sight. I eventually settled for this picture because it was the only one where he wasn’t going flat-eared and bearing teeth to the fat guy in the red suit. Aside from that, while I was walking aroung the mall people kept stopping me to take pictures of my puppy (who by the way is 9 month old, making him about 6 years old in dog years, so he’s a minor).

Maybe I shouldn’t have worn black because the photographer ended up having to lighten our half of the picture so you could see Capone. But in the end I got a nice picture of me and Capone with Santa for Capone’s first Christmas.

Working in webhosting for a while now I’ve had some people ask for really weird shit, and I’ve dealt with a lot of people who try to sound a lot smarter than they actually are (I’m one of them). The latest of the bunch is a guy who asked for MySQL 7.0 claiming that he’s a MySQL programmer and that he specially programmed his database to work with MySQL 7.0. He really didn’t take it to heart very well when I told him that there is no MySQL 7.0 and the most he can hope for is 6.0x alpha (FYI for future readers a year from now, read the damn date on this post). Besides the point, the guy apparently felt like I was talking down to him so he went out of his way to mention that because he has a bachelors degree in computer science and that he’s an avid Microsoft Word user, he definately knows more than I do when it comes to doing my job. So, I gave in and agreed to upgrade him to MySQL 7.0.

The trick of the trade here is that you can essentially install any version of MySQL that you want to, whether it exists or not! It’s a long-standing suck point in cPanel that the MySQL version in user cPanels are read from a static file within the datastore directory:

/home/username/.cpanel/datastore/_usr_sbin_mysqld_–version

Within that file is the output of the ‘/usr/sbin/mysqld –version‘ command, which cPanel reads and outputs to each user’s cPanel. You can easily edit this file in one user’s account to make it read whatever MySQL version you want:

Needless to say, after I ‘upgraded’ his version to 7.0, he claims his scripts started working!

I don’t even know…I just came home one day and here they were:

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Just when I though he disappeared for good, our culturally observant (yet sexy) friend Andrew Hearst released some new Magazine covers that are almost as good as the infamous subliminal cocktail featured on Snopes a few years ago.

The last time I posted something on Andrew Hearst I had people asking me if I even knew what a Panopticist was. Ok, the answer is still no, seeing that I don’t even know how to pronounce the word (pan-nop-tih-cist??) but this page is supposed to explain it a little bit. Too bad I have the attention span of a flea, so yea. You can see his other fabtaculous magazine covers here and…um… what was I talking about again?

I saw on this one site where you can upload a picture of yourself and it’ll match you with celebrities and stuff. Out of curiosity I uploaded one of my pictures to find out who I look like. If you want your own, just go to myheritage.com

Ok, I know, I’m a bit late on this but I just got around to watching the MTV Movie Awards that I taped on DVR last week, and I swear when I saw this I couldn’t even contain myself. I mean, Sarah Silverman must have balls the size of church bells to be able to own Paris Hilton like this in front of millions of people. You’d have to watch it to get the full effect: