Browsing archives for September, 2008

Happy Eid Ul Fitr.

Journal 30 September 2008 1 Comment

To all muslim readers, I am wishing you a very happy and joyable Eid ul fitr. Drive safely ya all!

WordPress 2.6.2 Is Available

Security,Wordpress 9 September 2008 0 Comments

WordPress has a new release to fix the danger of SQL Column Truncation. It is recommended if you are allow open registration on your blog. This problem is not critical but it is annoying. Upgrade to the latest version is highly recommended.

Google Blocks IBF Website

Off-Topic 8 September 2008 0 Comments

IBF or International Badminton Federation blocked by the world leading search engine, Google. The site is labeled as serving malware. Below is the diagnostic page for www.internationalbadminton.org by Google. What is the current listing status for www.internationalbadminton.org/? Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this web site may harm your computer. Part of this site [...]

WordPress 2.6.1 Vulnerability (Not Critical)

Wordpress 8 September 2008 1 Comment

In this vulnerability you can change admin password if the registration enabled. It can be done by duplicating admin username. The vulnerability is related to MySQL Column Truncation Vulnerabilities. If the attacker however tries (to register) the username ‘admin            x’ the application will search for it in the database and will not find it, [...]

X61 Right Side Usb Not Working

Thinkpad X61 7 September 2008 0 Comments

The two USB ports on the right side of my laptop do not work. The one USB port on the left side does. I found a solution in ubuntuforums by adding irqfixup to the kernel arguments fixed it. sudo sed -i.bak -e ‘s/\(^# kopt=.*$\)/\1 irqfixup/g’ /boot/grub/menu.lst && sudo update-grub