Today, the new version 1.0.11 of Joomla! was made available for download: Joomla! 1.0.11 […] is being designated a Critical Security Release. All existing Joomla! users MUST UPGRADE to this version, due to several High Level vulnerabilities that affect ALL Previous versions of Joomla! […] If you are using ANY previous version of Joomla!, you … [Read more…]
What do you do if you are promoting a piece of software which had – partly due to its popularity and partly due to inherent design concepts – several security issues more or less since its initial release? Make a joint effort with core- and add-on developers to educate the user base and get rid … [Read more…]
With an almost 3-week delay we finally switched on our fibre-optic link today. The delay was caused by the electrician of our landlord (do you say landlord also for office buildings?), who has the exclusive right to do all wiring in the building. Fact is he broke the cable the first time, but it cost … [Read more…]
A couple of years ago my company bought the software package QuarkXpress from someone at eBay. Recently we tried to upgrade that version to the most current one, but Quark declined the upgrade saying the version was already upgraded. This upgraded version is registered to the person who sold us our old version, which is … [Read more…]
I was reluctant to upgrade my WordPress 1.5.x to the most recent version because there were quite a lot of warnings given on the official site. Especially the part about backing up the SQL database made me postpone. However Brian just posted a reassuring explanation with a handy script, promising a painless WordPress update in … [Read more…]
I just got an email from my ISP NetCologne saying that they just upgraded me from 2 MBit to 6 MBit without extra charge. I immediately made a speedtest and reached ~550 KBit KByte/sec upon downloading a 10 MByte file. The theoretical maximum would be 768 KBit KByte/sec but with all the overhead a realistic … [Read more…]
Scientists from my hometown’s university have found out that eBay-auctions, which end during the day achieve higher profits compared to auctions ending in the evening. Popular belief is that evening-endings are more profitable since more surfers are online. However one needs to take into account that the number of auctions ending after 6pm is significantly … [Read more…]
Philip has managed to reverse-engineer the Google PageRank algorithm and confirmed the fears of all professional webmasters. Though this is satire of course, the interesting point is that there has to be such a piece of code, and that it most likely will look rather similar to the one Philip made up. It would be … [Read more…]