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If you are a doctor, a medical professional and/or a nurse (or If you know one) who wishes to volunteer and help the Libyan revolutionaries, please contact 'Libya Aid Relief Effort' by visiting their website http://www.libyaaidreliefeffort.org/ and they assist you with your travel to Misurata, Tunisia and/or The Nafusa Mountains

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I manage a number of DB servers that host a lot of databases and wanted to create a simple script that I could use to quickly backup databases without going through each and everyone manuallyThe following script backup all user databases to any directory you set to @Backup_DirectoryUSE masterGOSET NOCOUNT ON;-- Table to temporarily store all user database namesDECLARE @DB AS TABLE(ID INT IDENTITY

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There are many good looking fonts that come bundled with Microsoft Windows such as 'Times New Roman', 'Arial', 'Georgia'...among others, but are not at your disposal in Linux UbuntuTo install these fonts, please open your terminal and type/paste the following commandsudo apt-get install msttcorefontsEnter your password if prompted, and type 'y' when asked to confirm/accept the license agreement

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There is more than one way to install Apache2, PHP5 and MySql5 on Ubuntu (i.e. sudo apt-get install....etc. or by using Ubuntu Software centre) and the easiest way is to use taskselTasksel is a debian tool that installs software packages on your desktop/serverOpen your terminal and type/paste the following commandsudo apt-get install taskselOnce the installation is done, in your terminal, please

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I have managed to finally install & configure gnome3 on Ubuntu 11.04.The first few attempts failed and kept getting an error message which was reporting that there was a problem, but the error message wasn't indicating what the problem wasNote: Gnome3 is not supported on Ubuntu just yet...so if you want to go ahead and install it, please do so at your own riskAnyway, here is the steps that I used

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A number of news papers and media agencies are supporting the findings by Symantic that Facebook has been allowing advertisers and other third party providers access to Facebook user accounts and their personal informationFor more info, please visit The Wall Street JournalSo, if you are a Facebook user, you've got to ask yourself how much information should you be willing to share on Facebook if

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After unsuccessfully searching the net to find a useful guide on how to register ASP.NET on IIS 5.1, I thought it would be a good idea to post a howto to save time googling/binging without find a straight forward resourceAnyway, here is how I managed to register .NET framework 4 on IIS 5.1 running on a Windows XP Professional SP31) If you haven't install IIS on your Windows XP box, please do so

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After having updated Windows XP (Windows Update KB951748) to the latest patches, I was unable to browse the internet as there was a conflict on how DNS queries are sent back and forth from my machine to my ISP server(s).The new DNS patch ensures that Windows XP (probably affects other versions of Windows as well) no longer sends its queries from a constant UDP port selected from within a small

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Before purchasing domain names, most people check whether a given domain name is available for purchase or not.One company (Network Solutions accessible at http://www.networksolutions.com ) that provides a free WHOIS service, buys any available domains once someone checks whether a domain name is available or has already been taken by someone else. They do this so that users would have to buy

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If you have installed Ubuntu as a VMWare guest on Windows XP and the mouse wheel didn't work for one reason or another, here is a simple howto that should fix the problem.Open your Terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal and execute the following two commands in one go (Note: The first one would backup your existing configurations...just in case something goes wrong, whilst the

egharishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406788623441227290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35801199.post-76472292790075705862007-10-12T03:37:00.001-07:002007-10-12T03:37:09.126-07:00

Web security experts have expressed concerns over the availability of various resources that may be used to aid hackers to target weaknesses in current client browser technologies. A well known hacker group known as “GNU Citizen” has published a database that contains examples of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that describe various weaknesses found in client browser (such as MS

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Although Flock has been around since October 2005, I was quite surprised to find out about it only today. That is, considering all the default features that are bundled with Flock which target many popular Web 2.0 applications, you would have thought that many bloggers would write about its features and advocate its use.So, what is Flock anyway?Flock is an open-source Internet browser client

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, speaking at a lecture hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London on Thursday 20th September 2007, warned that security on the web is a “never-ending battle”. Berners-Lee said that web technology was originally designed for “friendly academic research”, but evolved as a commercial and social medium with technologies that include emails and wikis which

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Microsoft has reported a flaw in the way how certain numbers are displayed incorrectly when using their latest offering of Microsoft Office Excel 2007.David Gainer, Microsoft Excel and Excel Services group program manager, in a blog entry has assured users of Microsoft Excel 2007 that while the numbers displayed in the cell may appear incorrectly, the value(s) stored in the computer memory will

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An online web seminar hosted by TechRepublic is now available for free for all subscribers of TechRepublic.The renowned Web Application Security expert Jeremiah Grossman is one of the presenters of the webcast entitled "Understanding Web-Based Threats and How to Thwart Them".The following is an abstract of the web seminar:"The web has never been more hostile and new dangers can lurk on even the

egharishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406788623441227290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35801199.post-47061238301369865242007-09-19T05:24:00.000-07:002007-09-19T07:02:42.713-07:00

I have compiled the following links from various sources listing most of the free and open-source web security tools that can come in handy if you are a security researcher, or a web developer.1- OWASP SQLiX Project2- XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet. 3- SQL Injection Cheat Sheet4- OWASP WebScarab Project5- HTTrack6- SQLIer7- SQL Injection Pen-testing Tool8- Blind SQL Injection Perl Tool9-

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InfoWorld proclaimed on 10th September 2007 it is top tools in a number of open-source project categories. If you are a software security analysis, than the announcement will not be a surprise in the open-source security category with well known and established applications such as Nessus (a vulnerability assessment tool), Snort (an intrusion detection and prevention system) and Spamassasin (

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Sony has confirmed the existence of security flaw in some of its products which may leave computers exposed to abuse by hackers.The electronics giant said in a statement to the BBC that the fault, which comes with driver software packaged with memory sticks, was developed by a third-party and they are now conducting an internal investigation into this problem and are going to offer a security fix

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It is becoming less of a question to bonder which operating system is best in regard to performing daily computer tasks...and ultimately, boosting user's confidence and performance.Chris Pirillo (Geek, Blogger, and Technology Enthusiast) wrote an excellent and unbiased article comparing Mac OS X Leopard and Microsoft Windows VistaRead Full Article

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Finally, a reply to Microsoft press release, dated 5th July 2007, has been issued from the FSF (Free Software Foundations) regarding claims by Microsoft that it won’t be bound by terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 as part of its patent protection deals with Open-Source vendors such as Novell .Read Full Statement HereI believe that there are unanswered questions that should be

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According to a security researcher from F-Secure, Sony is still up to its old tricks…as F-Secure rootkit detection scanner has found illegitimate rootkit software installed on users’ computer systems without users’ knowledge or consent, once a user uses a USB stick marketed by Sony.If you haven’t heard of rootkit before, please visit the following page from wikipediaBack in 2005, Sony BMG XCP DRM

egharishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406788623441227290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35801199.post-1445230396808621342007-08-28T09:07:00.000-07:002007-08-28T09:13:27.035-07:00

If you haven't noticed already, the Internet is fundamentally changing the way the music industry works. From peer-2-peer networks, and the never ending lobbying and law suites...to absolutely legitimate free music downloads. What...did you say “legitimate free music”?Yes I did :)A French broadband service provider called “Neuf Cegetel” has announced that for as little as 5 euros a month, it will

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Ollie Whitehouse, in an interview with Tech.co.uk, claims that "Apple Macs running the Mac OS X operating system are just as vulnerable to viruses and other threats as Windows PCs are"He claims that "Apple has been demonstrated to suffer a number of vulnerabilities over the years [...] suffice to say that Symantec and other software security vendors do produce anti-virus software for the Mac

egharishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406788623441227290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35801199.post-18037717409468167952007-08-28T03:39:00.000-07:002007-08-28T04:01:15.626-07:00

Firewalls have become an essential part of our daily use of computers to safely communicate over open channels such as the Internet or Local Area Network (e.g. Computers in your office place or your home). The essence of using Firewalls is that they regulate the flow of traffic between your computer and other computers on different levels of trust, and allow or deny the transmission of data into

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Recently, it came to my attention that for some strange reason (well, more like a stupid reason) Adobe Software attempts to disable or shuts down personal firewalls on Apple Mac computers whilst attempting to perform software updates.The message that I am trying to drive home is that the software does not asks users permission as to whether it is allowed to disable their firewall while it

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One of the problems associated with developing web applications is having access to all or most of web browser software used by their targeted audience. Having access to open source browsers or freeware browsers is not much of a problem and most developers develop their applications targeting the latest releases of open source browser software....as they are available for most operating systems

egharishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406788623441227290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35801199.post-58548652943154580542007-01-03T04:49:00.000-08:002007-01-03T06:55:18.125-08:00

While it can be quite impossible (well, depends on your faith on a given technology) to predict the future of Operating Systems or Programming Languages, I believe that it is important to stay in tune with the latest trends in technology.The very nature of IT makes predicting the future of key technologies a huge challenge, and as such, most of the articles, posts, blogs...that I have been

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Recently, it came to my attention that you can by pass windows genuine advantage and install Windows Media Player 11 and Internet Explorer 7.For more information on how you can do this, please visit honeytech.I have followed their instructions and I was able to install Windows Media Player 11.Cheers

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Since the release of Internet Explorer 7, I wanted to install it and give it a test drive...and to start building websites targeting IE7 as well.However, as I am a web developer, I was reluctant to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 given the fact that a lot of people are still using Internet Explorer 6. I was mainly concerned with the way IE7 renders websites and whether there are any differences

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After having spent some time trying to figure out how to enable mod_rewrite for Apach2 running on Ubuntu Dapper, I decided to post this blog to remind myself and helps others of how you can easily enable mod_rewrite on Ubuntu Dapper.First of all, open a terminal if you have not got one open already, and execute the following command.sudo a2enmod rewriteOnce you have done that, you will need to

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This howto will provide a straight forward instructions on how to install the following packages on Linux Ubuntu Dapper:Apache2MySqlPHP5GD library for PHP5imagemagic for PHP5and, PhpMyAdminFirst of all, you should make sure that you have added extra repositories to your repositories list. If you are not sure how to do that, please visit this Ubuntu Guide wiki in order to learn how you can do

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For the past year or so, I have been using KVM Switch to share my mouse and monitor between my two computers (Windows XP and Linux Ubuntu). However, I recently have upgraded my main PCs graphic’s card and as a result, I was no longer able to make use of my KVM…as it was not equipped with a DVI plug-in.As a result, I started looking around for a new KVM which supported DVI cards…and whilst I was

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Today, a friend of mine emailed me a very useful script which creates virtual hosts on Linux on the fly.To get your copy today, please visit JV2 blog for information on how to use the script.I tested the script on my Ubuntu computer and I must admit, as a web developer, creating virtual hosts is a regular task that I perform with every new project...and this script made it a very simple task. I

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In this tutorial, I am going to demonstrate a step by step instruction on how to configure FireFox 1.5.0.8 with Java Run Time Environment.On a previous tutorial, I showed how simple it is to install and configure Sun Java SDK (Software Development Kit) on Fedora Core 6.Following from that tutorial, I am going to demonstrate how to configure FireFox with Java Run time plugin.I installed java in /

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Well, the long awaited release of Mozilla Firefox 2 is over. Firefox 2 was released three days ago on 24th October 2006. Today I learnt about its release and decided to give it a test drive.The installation process of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP is simple and straight forward. All you have to do is to visit the Mozilla Foundation Website and click on the download button.Once downloaded, go

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The following steps descipe how to install Java JDK 5.0 Update 9 on Fedora Core 6. Before starting though, I would like to note that I am going to install JDK in /opt/ directory.Personally, I like using this directory when I installing new software, so that it is easier to locate and and easier to access.Download JDK from Sun Microsystems website. please ensure that you download the Linux

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The following steps describe one way to install Ruby on Rails on Fedora Core 6 using Yum. There are other ways to install Ruby, but I personally like using Yum as it figures out all the dependencies automatically.Step 1First thing we need to do is to install Ruby. Please note that I am going to install all ruby packages, if you only interested in installing few packages then you can use yum

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