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When forced to work within a limited budget you are normally forced to come up with alternative cost saving solutions. This was the case for a University which desided to use a Linux powered X-Box to host it’s students web projects. As time passed so did the personnel who knew about the X-Box web server. Without proper handover documents and asset management the X-Box server soon gets forgotten. One day a new guy comes in an sees a X-Box sitting on the shelve all alone and decides to take it home for his kid. What happened next was, students started calling up reporting their server was down. Oooops!! ...

SIRIM’s site has been exploited with malware. The compromised URL is “www.sirim.my/pop_event2.asp?id=685". The URL when accessed downloads malicious software and infects the client PC. If I were you I would not access that link. From what I know many Malaysian sites are still susceptible to cross side scripting and SQL injection attacks. Chances are this is what happened this time. Google has already picked this up and is currently warning users about the threat. [Google Advisory][2] ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BraxN10dHmU[/youtube] This is the latest webcast from Google titled “Google Factory Tour of Search”. It’s centered around where Google currently is and where it plans to go in the near future. Google’s latest service Google Health is also introduced in the webcast. Some of the topics I found especially interesting. Universal search. Enhanced image search. Image recognition. New cluster. Finance news. Visualizing finance news. Global finance news. Experimental search. Google trends. Google Map. Street View (Freakin cool!!) Local search Live edits Google Health Open platform QA session ...

The first release candidate Firefox 3 is out. It’s mainly targeted at developers, bug testers and superusers. Installed it yesterday and only managed to get 3 of my add-ons working but the performance improvement on the other hand was noticeable as promised. [Take it for a spin.][2] [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/05/firefoxlogopi91.png) [2]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

My Facebook page has become one giant ball of information. Cluttered and confusing with the increasing amount for new applications being shared and circulated. I’m quite sure I’m not alone on this. Facebook has announced a makeover which is panned for roll out next month. The roll out will happen in stages. The goal is to un-clutter, simplify and organize the mountains for data being moved around over Facebook everyday amongst users. ...