I have seen a variety of stories around the web extolling the virtues of the new browser from Google: Google Chrome. At the moment, it is still a beta available only for Windows and Mac, but it seems to be an, erm, internet browser I suppose. To be perfectly honest and frank, I find it [...]
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WordPress 2.6.2
Another quick heads up peeps. WordPress 2.6.2 is out and you should update ASAP – especially if you allow registrations on your blog. See the WordPress Dev Blog for details, but in short the new update fixes the SQL Column Truncation vulnerability and the weakness of mt_rand(). Apparently other PHP apps are vulnerable too – [...]
WordPress.org 2.6.1
Quick Note: WordPress 2.6.1 is out. If you are running an older version, especially if you haven’t even gone to 2.6.0 yet, you should upgrade – you’re missing out on new functionality and you may be at risk of having your site taken over. Things to remember when upgrading: deactivate your plugins first, not all [...]
WordPress 2.6 & Spam Karma 2
It’s been a while since I wrote anything here, but here are two important announcements for anyone running the .org version of WordPress. Firstly, WordPress 2.6 is now out. There are, as usual, lots of new things in this release and they ae all listed here. One thing I noticed is that I have had [...]
Slackware vs Kubuntu: A Subjective Review
Long time fans of this space will be aware that I’m a Slacker. However, when something wasn’t working as easily as it could, I installed Kubuntu to see what the latest version (Hardy Heron) was like and whether it could tempt me to switch permanently. Firstly, even though all Linux distros are pretty identical at [...]
PlayOnLinux – Play Games On Linux
I discovered this via an LXer newsfeed on Linuxquestions.org. Most Linux users should know about the Wine project and about the Cedega project and even about CrossOver Office – the aim of these programs is to run Windows programs, games and office type programs easily on Linux. There are problems with each program – Wine [...]
