Taken from wordpress blog

WordPress 2.2.1 is now available. 2.2.1 is a bug fix release for the 2.2 series. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely polished 2.2.1 release.

Unfortunately, 2.2.1 is not just a bug fix release. Some security issues came to light during 2.2.1 development, making 2.2.1 a required upgrade. 2.2.1 addresses the following vulnerabilities:

• Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
• Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC Discovered by Alexander Concha.
• Unescaped attribute in default theme

I use instant upgrade as usual, upgrade with single click

I just know that by viewing source code you can see what wordpress version using by a blog.

Some interesting picture  ( I make this screenshot at 21 2007 12) :

Problogger

Dosh Dosh

John Chow

Jane May

Nate Whitehill

Shoemoney

 of course it’s easy to fake, simply changing header.php file (in theme folder)

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>" />

changing bold into whatever version until have spare time for upgrade

As my sitemap getting bigger, I’m going to update it with new one. After login to gogglewebmaster I found interesting post in their blog.

At Google, we are always working hard to provide searchers with the best possible results. We’ve found that our spam reporting form is a great way to get your input as we continue to improve our results. Some of you have asked for a way to report paid links as well.

Links are an important signal in our PageRank calculations, as they tend to indicate when someone has found a page useful. Links that are purchased are great for advertising and traffic purposes, but aren’t useful for PageRank calculations. Buying or selling links to manipulate results and deceive search engines violates our guidelines.

Today, in response to your request, we’re providing a paid links reporting form within Webmaster Tools. To use the form, simply log in and provide information on the sites buying and selling links for purposes of search engine manipulation. We’ll review each report we get and use this feedback to improve our algorithms and improve our search results. in some cases we may also take individual action on sites.

If you are selling links for advertising purposes, there are many ways you can designate this, including:

• Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the href tag
• Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file

We value your input and look forward to continuing to improve our great partnership with you.

Wow, since Google can’t determine which one is paid link  and which one is not. Back to human

I just imagine my text link ads or other text link company, I think many of advertiser primary reason is getting high PR.

False report ?

Existing directory business model?

sigh, I think many of them will get affected.

Various post around these topic :

• The Paid Links Economy
• Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

Learning ranking algorithm always gain interesting moment for me

Google has page rank (PR),  Technorati rank, Alexa rank and many others system.

Today I see a post about viralink, seem interesting too. Let see how it’s going.

I prefer call it "Link Love Viral"

Here’s my viralink :

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line———

Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!

Viralink

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New Addition:

Update on : 22 June 2007, I’m no longer participate in this linklove, I have to focus on my thesis, no time to update this post, thank you

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions above this line———

Posting about viralink I found :

• Viralink re-visited
• Increase Technorati Rankings – Viralink Opportunity

Some interesting site :

• OpenBSD section in kernel panic (Redundant firewalls with OpenBSD, CARP and pfsync, OpenBSD as a mail server, The Squid and the Blowfish, OpenBSD as a domain name server, Network monitoring with Nagios and OpenBSD, OpenBSD as a Primary Domain Controller)
• Netflow connection,  These tools provide a method of collection and display of NetFlow information.
• Netflow information, Cisco whitepaper

I used to use openoffice to save document into pdf

Recent upgrade from Office 2003 to Office 2007 make me think about native supoort of pdf .

After googling I found this link :

Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

This Add in for :

    * Microsoft Office Access 2007
    * Microsoft Office Excel 2007
    * Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
    * Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
    * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
    * Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
    * Microsoft Office Visio 2007
    * Microsoft Office Word 2007

Installation process

Complete

Hehehe, where save as pdf button located ?

I don’t familiar with XPS , but these links might help :

• XML Paper Specification – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Adobe PDF vs Microsoft XPS (XML Paper Specification) at Digital …
• XPS Team Blog – XML Paper Specification and the Open Packaging …

Another googling activity bring me to a new keyword "free cisco books", I ever read about professor who write book about cisco and upload it in internet. I forgot his name but I still remember the place :

lulu.com

yes, by typing cisco in search term I got a few result and the main thing is they have free download section .

Registration is simple, just entering email and password.

Here’s some link from lulu.com around cisco :

• Basic Cisco Security Exercises for Pix Firewall, IOS firewall, and Access Control Server
• CCNA Version 5-Draft
• CCIE Warm-Up: Advice and Learning Labs
• CCIE Warm-Up (Volume II)

Interesting site, I just ordering multimedia book in amazon in ebook category. I think I can download the book after make payment.  It just hardbook that I must wait for almost a month

I hope lulu.com collection will grow faster. So my next order will be placed on lulu.com

Any other source for cisco ebook?

P.S :

Cisco Books and Networking Resources Web Site

While waiting for FreeBSD 7.0 release

• Sun ZFS breaks all the rules
• Solaris ZFS Performance (compared to VxFS, Linux Ext3 and W2K NTFS)
• An OpenSolaris/Linux Mashup
• Apple to use Sun’s ZFS in Leopard

Just wondering average file system in datacentre, OS etc

Like Amazon, do they use spesific filesystem, OS likewise

Google Reader Gears Search, I forgot found that post today in either digg or stumbleupon

Generally this script will add search function in google reader, google reader not add search function (yet) into application. But with google gears application I’m sure that facility will come.

Since I always found good post always get burried I use manual method, try to remember and visit the blog and doing manual search before bookmark the address.

Since this script will help me to solve the problem I try to install Greasemonkey in Firefox then try the greasemonkey script.

I think many other people don’t know this feature so I make it in screenshot mode

1. Install greasemonkey plugin for Firefox from here

Checking after restart Firefox

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My friends laptop got crash till he must buy new harddisk, before erase and completely destroy the harddisk he ask for his CD key.

He use original Windows XP Professional, same as me ( I use campus agreement hehehe)

After doing search in internet I got few software that able to retrieve Windows XP key  or related software:

1. Keyfinder, download here

The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007.

2. RockXP, download here

Small Warning : RockXP is a tool that allow you to retrieve passwords. To do that, RockXP use a third party tool called Pwdump2.exe, an opensource software (Sources are included in RockXp). This tool retrieve HASH password of Windows. Unfortunatly, some Antivirus detect this tool like a Virus, but it’s not.

RockXP allows you to:
- To retrieve and change your XP Key
- To retrieve all Microsoft Products keys
- To save your XP activation file
- To retrieve your lost XP system passwords
- To retrieve your lost RAS (Remote Access Settings) passwords
- And to generate new passwords

Those two software will work fine as long operating system goes well, for corrupting system then this articles might be usefull.

 Windows XP and Vista Product Key Recovery

Quote from author site :

There are many programs available for extracting the product key from a Windows XP or Vista installation. The only problem is that they generally require the computer to be functional to run. These programs are useless if the operating system is corrupt and the computer will not boot into Windows. Fortunately, there are other options. This article explains how you can retrieve the product key with just the ntuser.dat file from the machine. You can also download a stand-alone version of my decrypter tool.

 

Recommended Books :

1. Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows XP Edition (Shelly Cashman) (Shelly Cashman)
2. Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
3. Microsoft Office 2007 Illustrated Introductory, Windows XP Edition (Illustrated Series) (Illustrated Series)
4. Microsoft Office Project 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))