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Mozilla has released it’s latest beta release of Firefox 3. Firefox 3 Beta 3. Some of the new features include improved security through better user tracking, malware detection, stricter SSL rules and also anti virus support for the built in download manager. The download manager also benefits from some changes, resume is now supported, a new search functionality and a new progress indicator in the status bar. Vista, Mac OS X and Linux will also see better integration from Firefox. ...

Webmin is a web based control panel for system administrators for Unix/Linux. I use Webmin for reports mainly. More about Webmin here. This is how you would install Webmin on Centos 4. First start by downloading the latest version of Webmin. The current version is 1.400. I prefer to use use wget to directly download the file onto the server but it’s up to you. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm Install the Webmin rpm package. rpm -ivh webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm [root@proxy0 /]# rpm -ivh webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm warning: webmin-1.400-1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 11f63c51 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] Operating system is CentOS Linux 1:webmin ########################################### [100%] Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://proxy0.klm1.netcel360.com:10000/ as root with your root password. Check if the Webmin service has been started. service webmin status [root@proxy0 /]# service webmin status webmin (pid 4878) is running That’s it, you can now login using your root id at https://localhost:10000 ...

With over 4 million units sold Apple has decided to release an upgrade to the popular iPhone. The iPhone now comes with 8GB or 16GB of storage. The new 16GB model will run you USD499 whereas the 8GB model will be USD399. The iPod touch also received a bump up in it’s storage area. Apple has started shipping it with 8GB, 16GB and now also 32GB. The 32GB model is priced at USD499, USD399 for the 16GB model and USD299 for the 8GB model. ...

Mozilla has release a new version of the popular Firefox web browser. Version 2.0.0.12. This release fixes some important security vulnerabilities that were discovered in 2.0.0.11. MFSA 2008-11 Web forgery overwrite with div overlay MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing MFSA 2008-05 Directory traversal via chrome: URI MFSA 2008-04 Stored password corruption MFSA 2008-03 Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution MFSA 2008-02 Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities MFSA 2008-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12) ...

I would like to wish all my Chinese friends and all Malaysians a “Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year”. I got caught up with a lot of things this weekend including a really bad hangover. I’m back to normal now and would sincerely like to apolagize for my late wishes. Especially to all my close Chinese friends. Sorry guys, better late then never.