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The great folks at WordPress.org have just released maintenance update to WordPress software. WordPress 2.8.1 can be obtained through WordPress.org site or can be automatically upgraded through WordPress Dashboard.
Info on WordPress 2.8.1 can be found at WordPress blog.
The automatic upgrade process was fast and painless.
Thursday July 9th, 2009 afternoon; Apple seeds Mac OS X Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A402. The update is available through Software Update and weighs in on 1.31GB.
As usual, Apple Developer Connection members are bound by the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
From Software Update:
This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A394 or later. This update includes general operating system fixes for stability, compatibility, and security.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Developer Preview is not recommended for casual users and production system since it still contains numbers of software bugs.
RENO 911!: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Set was released on Tuesday July 7th, preempting the Season 6 Finale that was due on Wednesday July 8th. The two-disc set contains total of 15 episodes from the “shocking” season premiere episode to the season finale episode.
RENO 911!: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Set from Amazon.com
Season 6 starts with no mentions of the presumably killed Deputies. Fans are crying foul over the absence of Deputy Johnson, Deputy Kimball and especially Deputy Garcia (played by Wendi McLendon-Covey, Mary Birdsong and Carlos Alazraqui respectively). Enter Seargant Jack Declan and Deputy Frank Rizzo (played by Ian Roberts and Joe Lo Truglio respectively).
Fans of the show are divided in two, those who still like the show and those who now hate Season 6.
I am planning to buy the DVD set for two particular episodes. The first one with George Lopez and Jill-Michele Meleán. The second one with the tribute for Garcia involving some explosives and a canon.
There is no official word yet about the Seventh Season.
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Disclaimer 1:
I have done a few projects with Carlos Alazraqui and plan to continue doing so. In addition to that I am also working with Jill-Michele Meleán who plays Maria Garcia (James Garcia’s Sister) and Gloria (Mayor Hernandez’s girlfriend in Season 6 Episode 8).
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Disclaimer 2:
If you bought anything through Amazon link above, and I get some kickbacks.
“If you buy Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fifth Season, I can buy this Canon Vixia HV40 HDV Camcorder” to paraphrase the great Robert Schimmel.
Taken using an iPhone 3GS and a polarized sunglasses.
The VideoLAN project has officially released VLC 1.0.0 codenamed Goldeneye. Download it now.
VLC 1.0.0 is a cross-platform media player, available for Linux, Mac, Windows and other Operating Systems.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.
Download “Head Crusher” now from Roadrunner Records. (Download starts on Tuesday, July 7 at 11:00 a.m. EDT)
Usually the download period is good for 24 hours only. We’ll keep you posted.
Megadeth‘s “Endgame” track listing:
“Endgame” is Megadeth twelfth studio album and is due on September 15th, 2009.
Tuesday July 7th, 2009.
It is the first Tuesday of the month, so there will be no regular updates from Microsoft today. Instead on Monday Microsoft released a warning regarding a serious security hole that affects Internet Explorer on Windows XP and Server 2003.
It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims’ machines. The victims don’t need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that’s been hacked.
Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.
The so-called “zero day” vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft affects a part of its software used to play video. The problem arises from the way the software interacts with Internet Explorer, which opens a hole for hackers to tunnel into.
According to reports, currently there is no fix available from Microsoft, but there is a workaround.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890#FixItForMe
Interestingly Microsoft might use this announcement to convince people to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7.