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Sun, Java & OSS

Posted on: Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 in: General

I, actually “we” my wife and me, just came back from my holiday trip to Chaung Tha Beach. The beach was quiet last two days, and went live just before we left. The wind was still and there’s no virtually no tidal waves at all, and there was no point for us to getting into [...]

Java Virtual Machine Options

Posted on: Sunday, November 5th, 2006 in: General

Until I’ve tried to run java programs in low memory PCs, I always thought there’s always enough memory for Java Virtual Machines. This time, I’m with Java HotSpot Server VM, and it even fails to run simple
java -version
After consulting with Sun’s Java Hotspot VM Options Document and this, I added this option when launching JVM.
java [...]

New Tools This Week

Posted on: Thursday, October 26th, 2006 in: General

It’s probably the most exciting week of this year. Fedora Core 6 (Zod) was out 2 days ago, and Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) is out today. They both promise exciting new features. Although I’m not a zealous Fedora fan, I think I will try this version. Currently I’m still with Gentoo on my notebook and [...]

Joomla! Multiple Vulnerabilities

Posted on: Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 in: General, PHP

If you are using Joomla version 1.0.10 or less, it’s time to update again. According to many security advisories, it’s got high known and unknown impacts.
Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, where some have unknown impacts, and others can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and bypass certain security restrictions.
1) [...]

New Version, New Server

Posted on: Saturday, August 26th, 2006 in: General

I have moved my blog to a new server, and upgraded it to 2.0.4. I mistakenly moved the blog to windows server first, and had a problem with mod_rewrite, which is not available on Windows server. I had to move it again to a Linux server. Upgrading WordPress is pretty painless.
Right now, it’s hard to [...]