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| Thursday, May 12, 2005
Firefox Yes, I'm sure you've all seen 100 times this morning that version 1.04 is out, and it fixes the security hole I talked about earlier this week. But have you seen Marc Orchant's post about it this morning where he also mentions MozBackup? From their site: "MozBackup is a utility for creating backups of Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup mail, favorites, contacts, etc. This program is freeware." Interesting... Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 9:44 AM | 0 comments | 
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
A simple upgrade I got some details on what went wrong with the email on both sites and Movable Type on the other site over the last few days. Seems the hosting company did a Perl upgrade over the weekend, but did not include all the same modules in the upgrade as had existed in the previous version. So one of the required modules for MT, HTML:Template.pm, ceased to exist on the server! That's why I couldn't get any of the MT stuff to operate successfully. I also found that the LWP:UserAgent module was not installed any longer. It was also explained to me that somehow in the process of doing this upgrade, they made some changes to the DNS records of the mail servers and that was why email to both domains bounced despite the fact that both sites were still reachable. Anyway, I was able to install those Perl mods into the extlib directory of my MT install, the DNS got corrected and it all seems to be back to normal. If experience in IT has taught me anything though, it has taught me that "back to working normally" is probably only a temporary situation, until the next upgrade goes awry! :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 10:55 AM | 0 comments |
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Firefox Hole By now I'm sure you've all heard about the security hole in Firefox, and the "recommended fixes". Here's the thing though, turning off Javascript disables all those cool little Greasemonkey scripts, and turning off "Let website install software" just makes it more difficult for people to get extensions for Firefox. It's those extensions and add-ons that make Firefox what it is, without them I'd just as soon go back to using IE, except for the tabbed browsing. Guess it turns out that even Firefox is buggy, and you'd still better be careful about what you're doing with it just as much as you are with IE, eh? Now how many of those security "experts" are going to go back and re-write their "How to keep your home PC safe" articles where they told people to simply "use Firefox" and they won't have to worry about IE's security problems any more? BTW, the addition of Technorati Tags on these last few posts is a direct result of using a couple of Greasemonkey scripts on the Blogger page to let me add tags easily and change the way Blogger formats some things. If I disable Javascript, this becomes a much more involved process that I probably wouldn't bother to do. Update: Just to clarify, I'm not down on Firefox as a product, I'll still be using it every day. Consider this more of an "I told you so" to all those writers who told home users to "Install Firefox and quit worrying about security". It was a stupid thing to say then, and this just bears it out. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 9:43 AM | 0 comments |
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Monday, May 09, 2005
Off to a rocking start This week is shaping up to be as good as last week. Our Positni filters redirected hundreds of copies of the Sober virus into our quarantine over the weekend. I'm glad they all got detected and redirected but all of those emails in the quarantine means it takes me longer to go through and make sure nothing got quarantined that shouldn't have. Seriously, what do we have to do to keep people from opening attachments and getting infected? Also, email to this domain is not working today for whatever reason. The email servers my host uses are unreachable as are the database connections I use on the Child Abuse site. I do not know why or what happened... Update: Email and the DB connections are working now. Still no word on what happened this morning. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 10:32 AM | 0 comments |
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