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Camino 1.6 is Released April 20, 2008

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April 17th, 2008

Camino 1.6 is released.

Camino 1.6 contains the following improvements over version 1.5.x.

  • Safari now appears in the list of available feed readers on Mac OS X 10.4 and above.
  • Opening a history item from the recent pages at the top of the History menu in a new tab or window by holding down the Command key works again.
  • Camino now supports multi-touch gestures for back, forward, page up, and page down.
  • The Camino disk image no longer has scrollbars on Mac OS X 10.5 when the Finder’s path bar is enabled.

Download Camino here:
http://caminobrowser.org/download/releases/1.6/

Resurrecting a WordPress Blog April 19, 2008

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To quote the character played by Tony Shalhoub, “Here’s what happened.”

March 4th 204, I decided to upgrade my WordPress 2.0.x blog to version 2.3.3 after creating a backup. Long story short, the Yahoo! installed WordPress blog could not be upgraded to version 2.3.3 safely, and essentially in the process, my database was corrupted.

The worse news is that the backup was not good either. After a seemingly long period of self-deprecation, I started a new WordPress 2.3.3 blog. It was almost perfect, but completely functional.

Anyway, I reinstall the blog using Yahoo! control panel, and it turned out to be version 2.3.2 sans all my postings. I had a really old back-up, and it was not compatible with WordPress at all.

March 30th, I upgraded all my WordPress blog to version 2.5 including the one with all the missing postings. Still dreading from the loss, I slowly did some manual entry on the blog. Then it hit me. I tried using the backup and restore feature. I backed-up 37prime.wordpress.com and restored it to 37prime.com/blog.

IT WORKED!

Not perfect, but I got 80% of my postings back.

Now I have no worries when it comes to moving the WordPress blog.

I’m sleepy, so I’m gonna get some sleep.

Windows Home Server: HP MediaSmart Server EX475 April 17, 2008

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UPS delivered the Windows Home Server HP MediaSmart Server EX475 that I ordered from Amazon. Well, to be honest, it’s not for me, but for someone else. There’s nothing better spending other people’s money buying new tech-toys and get to play with it. I am too tired tonight to do anything with that thing. I will open it up on Thursday morning.

Quick look at the Windows Home Sever

HP MediaSmart Server EX475

Stay tuned for more details.

Firefox 2.0.0.14 is Available. April 16, 2008

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Firefox 2.0.0.14 is available for download. (read more)
Firefox 2.0.0.14 release notes.

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Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.14

MFSA 2008-20 Crash in JavaScript garbage collector

Mozilla Firefox is available for multiple Operating Systems including Linux, Mac and Windows.

Safari 3.1.1 is Available April 16, 2008

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Apple releases Safari 3.1.1 to address stability, compatibility and Security.

Safari 3.1.1 is available for Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, and Windows XP/Vista.

About the security content of Safari 3.1.1

Safari 3.1.1

  • Safari
    CVE-ID: CVE-2007-2398
    Available for: Windows XP or Vista
    Impact: A maliciously crafted website may control the contents of the address bar
    Description: A timing issue in Safari 3.1 allows a web page to change the contents of the address bar without loading the contents of the corresponding page. This could be used to spoof the contents of a legitimate site, allowing user credentials or other information to be gathered. This issue was addressed in Safari Beta 3.0.2, but reintroduced in Safari 3.1. This update addresses the issue by restoring the address bar contents if a request for a new web page is terminated. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems.
  • Safari
    CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1024
    Available for: Windows XP or Vista
    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
    Description: A memory corruption issue exists in Safari’s file downloading. By enticing a user to download a file with a maliciously crafted name, an attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved handling of file downloads. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems.
  • WebKit
    CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1025
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5.2, Mac OS X Server v10.5.2, Windows XP or Vista
    Impact: Visiting a malicious website may result in cross-site scripting
    Description: An issue exists in WebKi’s handling of URLs containing a colon character in the host name. Opening a maliciously crafted URL may lead to a cross-site scripting attack. This update addresses the issue through improved handling of URLs. Credit to Robert Swiecki of Google Information Security Team and David Bloom for reporting this issue.
  • WebKit
    CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1026
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5.2, Mac OS X Server v10.5.2, Windows XP or Vista
    Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted web page may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
    Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in WebKit’s handling of JavaScript regular expressions. The issue may be triggered via JavaScript when processing regular expressions with large, nested repetition counts. This may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of JavaScript regular expressions. Credit to Charlie Miller for reporting these issues.

Safari 3.1.1 can be obtained through Safari Download Page or Apple Software Updates.