Archive for October, 2006


Luminus made it a point to Tag me. I normally hate these tagging games and looking at the information I have to fill in…!
Anyway, here goes:

Simple Machines has just released a security patch for SMF.
This release addresses a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search function.
The fix for the 1.0.x has been released as 1.0.9. The version number of 1.1RC3 has remained as is, but you need to download and update your SMF installation ASAP!
Just last week my forum was hacked. [...]

Received this over email today from my Dad. The email is a bit long but well worth the read:
The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther [...]

The feed from the WordPress category of this blog, titled Ajay On WordPress has now been added to planet WordPress
This category has already been devoted to all posts related to WordPress and now I have decided to make a devoted feed for it.
You can also subscribe to the feed directly from my subscribe page.

After having thought about it a while I’ve decided to use Google Apps for Your Domain for AjayDSouza.com.
I have already been using Google Apps to manage WebberZone email for a while now, and now AjayDSouza.com
What this means is now I have a 2Gb Email account, which has all the features of Gmail (which [...]

The latest version of Bad Behavior i.e. 2.0.6 includes a new check where it looks up various blacklists.
A new blocking method using realtime blackhole lists is being used to determine if a post originates from a known spam source, open proxy, etc. GET requests are not screened. Links are provided to blackhole list removal procedures [...]

My Support forum was just hacked by SeaNPauL of RootingAttack.Net
The forum is powered by SMF 1.1RC3. The Settings.php had write permissions and the contents of this file were modified.
I’ve replaced the file with my backup and have removed write permissions from each and every file. I don’t think any data has been lost.
Also removed write [...]

Thanks to the Mouse who dropped in yesterday, I prepared my first salad.
So here is how you go ahead with making your salad. Take it with a pinch of salt.
Ingredients:
2 Tomatoes
1 Cucumber
100gms. Sweet Corn
Half Sour Lime
Sugar, Salt and Pepper to taste

Come Halloween and Netvibes is ready with a brand new Halloween Theme.

This one is very different from the other themes that Netvibes has because this is the first dark theme they have.
Though there is a dark background one wise thing is that the modules still have a white background with black text making it easy [...]

Wishing all my dear readers a Happy Halloween!
Have a great set of days
And tell me your stories.