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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.
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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 [...]

Perl Modules

Posted on: Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 in: General

Though I am not a big fan of Perl, I sometimes need to execute perl scripts. Occasionally my perl repository misses some libraries like LWP::UserAgent. To install new perl modules, I had to execute
perl -MCPAN -e shell
At the first time, I had to answer 10 to 20 of configuration questions. And finally, I reached to [...]

Death of the Blog and Random Thoughts

Posted on: Friday, August 4th, 2006 in: General

I haven’t looked at this site for a long time. I also noticed there were no visitors, and I was starting to think my posts were not useful or of any assistance. And I’m smelling the death of the blog.
So what have I been doing lately? I did my jobs as usual. I did not [...]