WordPress 2.6.2 released

Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2 this morning using the WPAU plugin.

The release fixes a vulnerability in the password complexity which could allow user passwords to be reset by the attacker who can later use mt_rand() to predict the random password.

Upgrade if you allow open registration.

Download WordPress 2.6.2

Yet another Malaysian Ubuntu repository

Found this yesterday. It’a another Ubuntu repository for Malaysians and it’s hosted by MMU.

http://ubuntu.mmu.edu.my/ubuntu/

Source: FOSS-SM

Google turns 10

Google turns 10 today. I never realized 10 years passed so quick.

From a US100 thousand dollar startup company operating out of a garage to a 160 Billion dollar company operating from the GooglePlex. See the old Google page.

Today Google has it’s hands in almost everything. Ads, docs, search, groups, images, maps and the list goes on. The latest being their home grown browser “Google Chrome” and their mobile platform “Android“.

Google was not the first but certainly the best at what it did. “SEARCH”

I love Google for one reason, every product from them has always been clean and slim. Just like the Google search page. This is also be seen in their latests browser Chrome, it’s a multi process browser without the bloat. It’s future however is still undecided.

Scenario: 10 years from now, chances are Google will be everywhere and in everything. What happens if google suddenly get plugged out, “POOF” gone? What do you think would happen?

Dropbox client now available for Linux

The folks at dropbox released the much anticipated Linux client yesterday. Currently it’s designed as a nautilus extension. Support for Konqueror should be available soon.

The nautilus extension is opensource but the dropboxd daemon which keeps the files in sync is closed source.

Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora are available for download. For other distros you’ll need to compile from source. Go to the download page. 

I managed to get dropbox working on my openSUSE 11 running KDE. It’s quite simple actually. You need to install the nautilus and nautilus-devel pakages before compiling the source,

1. install nautilus

root#> zypper in nautilus

2. install nautilus-devel

root#> zypper in nautilus-devel

3. compile the dropbox source. Make sure to be in the source folder first.

root#> ./configure

root#> make

root#> make install

4. start nautilus or the dropboxd daemon to initiate the dropbox client. 

root#> nautilus

or

root#> cd /home/[user]/.dropbox-dist/

root#> ./dropboxd

Malaysia Today alternate URLs

Alternate URL to Malaysia Today

http://mt.m2day.org/2008/

To check the status of Malaysia Today and get alternate URLs go here.