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

Posted on September 30th, 2008 by SMD
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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.

Posted on September 9th, 2008 by SMD
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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.
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Posted on September 8th, 2008 by SMD
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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 [...]

Posted on September 8th, 2008 by SMD
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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

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by SMD
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