I must wish my congratulations to all Firefox users because you guys are better patchers than other internet browser users.

Based on analysis by Secunia, 5.19 percent of all Firefox 2 users had missed security updates. 5.40 pecent for IE7. 9.61 percent for IE 6 users. And Opera was the most abandoned in security updates which is 11.96.

“People have to choose to use Firefox,” said Mike Cherry, an analyst with the Directions on Microsoft research firm.

Opera was the least to be patched because the updates is not done automatically instead you need to check the update by yourself by clicking on Help and Check for update. But for Firefox users, the updates are delivered via the browser itself. So, Firefox users are more secure and up to date.

More read at Techworld Computer & Internet Security News .

Firefox users are better patchers [via Techworld] [tags]firefox, opera, internet explorer[/tags]

I just got my Ubuntu CDs couple of days ago and currently I’m looking what things should I need to protect my Ubuntu that I will install once I buy a new hard disk for my PC. I want to make it dual boot.

Luckily, IT Security (more about IT Security) had make a post about how you can protect your Ubuntu by installing must have softwares and modifying some Ubuntu configuration settings.

Here are short tips you need to do to modify the default settings.

1. Reconfiguring shared memory

Open your text editor, open the file “/etc/fstab” and add the following line of code:

tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,ro 0 0

Read more…

Dell CTO Kevin Kettler and Jay Parker, head of the company’s server business, at a press event in Sans Francisco had show off their recent and upcoming new technology in computer cooling system and a new technology product called Project Hybrid.

They hope with these new developed technology, they can beat their competitors in the business computing market. Watch the video here.

Video: Dell shows off new technology [via CNET] [tags]dell, cooling system, project hybrid[/tags]

Looking for free crystal icons? Wikimedia Commons is giving you 300 Crystal Clear icons for you to use them anywhere you want. You can use these icons on your website, as icons in your computer, or just to keep them as a personal collection.

But these icons are not come in one package or in zipped file. So, you need to right click and save them one by one.

300 Ikon Percuma untuk Weblog Anda [via Mohd Ismail][tags]free, icons, crystal clear icons[/tags]

Comment Quicktags version 1.9 is not compatible with Wordpress 2.2. My site was having problem when the sidebar moved down under the comment form and break the website layout when the plugin is activated.

Hey! That is not your place!

After I deactivate the plugin, my website has back to normal and the sidebar move to the place where it should be.

Read more…

I just received my first Nuffnang (read more) cheque today. For three weeks campaign, I have earned RM147.60 (approximately $USD43.42).

This weekend I will deposit two cheques. This one and the other is a cheque from Text Link Ads.

Read more…

I make the order on 18 April 2007. After waiting about 4 weeks, I received an oversea mail from Ubuntu today. This Ubuntu CDs comes in white small mail package which contains three CDs and stickers.

Ubuntu CDs comes in this package.

Read more…

It is time to upgrade your Wordpress. New version, 2.2 has out and is ready for download.

What’s new?

• WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
• Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
• A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
• Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
• We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
• Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
• We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

Wordpress is the best blogging system I ever use. Besides you have many choices of themes, you also can enhance its performance by using plugins. If you can’t afford hosting by your own, you can have your own Wordpress blog for free at Wordpress.com.

1) Tech Support: “I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop.”
Customer: “Ok.”
Tech Support: “Did you get a pop-up menu?”
Customer: “No.”
Tech Support: “Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?”
Customer: “No.”
Tech Support:: “Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?”
Customer: “Sure, you told me to write ‘click’ and I wrote ‘click’.”

————————————————

2) Customer: “I received the software update you sent, but I am still getting the same error message.”
Tech Support: “Did you install the update?”
Customer: “No. Oh, am I supposed to install it to get it to work?”

————————————————

3).Customer: “I’m having trouble installing Microsoft Word.”
Tech Support: “Tell me what you’ve done.”
Customer: “I typed ‘A:SETUP’.”
Tech Support: “Ma’am, remove the disk and tell me what it says.”
Customer: “It says ‘[PC manufacturer] Restore and Recovery disk’.”
Tech Support: “Insert the MS Word setup disk.”
Customer: “What?”
Tech Support: “Did you buy MS word?”
Customer: “No…”

————————————————

Read more…

This trick is simple but it is really geeky. Did you know that you can hiding your files in JPG image? Here I will show you how. But before we can proceed, prepare our tools first.

Tools

• WinRAR
• Command Prompt
• Hidden files (Eg: password.txt)
• A JPG image file (Eg: nerd.jpg)

Ok, now we move on how to do this trick. Btw here is my nerd.jpg.

1. Put your hidden file and your image file in the same folder. Here I have password.txt and nerd.jpg. Both I put in a folder I named it Secret in drive D.

2. Put all these files into a RAR archive. I named this archive as Hidden.rar

Read more…