Apple Releases Boot Camp Update 2.1

Apple releases updates to Boot Camp drivers for Windows XP, Windows Vista 32, and Windows Vista 64.

Boot Camp Update 2.1

This update addresses issues and improves compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista 32, and Vista 64 running on a Mac computer using Boot Camp. It is highly recommended for all Boot Camp users.

Boot Camp Update 2.1 is available through Apple Support Downloads page:

Boot Camp Update 2.1 for Windows XP215MB
Boot Camp Update 2.1 for Windows Vista 32228MB
Boot Camp Update 2.1 for Windows Vista 64236MB

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

South Park: Season 12 Episode 7 – “Super Fun Time”

South Park: Season 12 Episode 7 – “Super Fun Time”
Original Air Date: 2008-04-23

Preview “Super Fun Time” here.

Eric Cartman

From South Park Studios: (announced on April 20th, 2008)

This Week on South Park: “Super Fun Time”
While the kids are on an educational field trip to a living museum, Cartman makes Butters sneak away from the class to go to the amusement center located next door.

Note:

  • “Super Fun Time” is the mid-season finale and will be back sometimes in October 2008.
  • This episode will be available for streaming from April 23rd to April 29th. It will then be available again starting May 26th 2008. Go to SouthParkStudios.com for more details.
  • All Season 12 episodes will be available uncensored @ iTunes Store and Amazon Unbox.
  • The seventh episode of Season 12.
  • South Park Studios are known for working on the episodes to the last minute before they have to air. Looking for an early leak is basically a futile effort.

Eric Cartman

Discuss this pre-air announcement here.

From today’s Comedy Central Press Release:

THE BOYS ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE
IN AN ALL-NEW “SOUTH PARK” ON
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 AT 10:00 P.M. ON COMEDY CENTRAL

NEW YORK, April 21, 2008 – A class field trip to the living museum takes a deadly turn in an all-new episode of “South Park,” entitled “Super Fun Time,” premiering on Wednesday, April 23 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on COMEDY CENTRAL.

Mr. Garrison takes the fourth grade class on an educational field trip to a Pioneer Village where dedicated workers remain in character as their counterparts from the 1800’s. Cartman forces Butters to ditch the fanatical townsfolk to go to the amusement center located next door. While the rest of kids are reluctantly learning about the good old days in Colorado, a group of trigger-happy thieves break into the museum and take everyone hostage.

Airing Schedule on Comedy Central:

  • Wednesday, APR 23 2007 – 10:00 PM
  • Thursday, APR 24 2007 – 12:00 AM
  • Thursday, APR 24 2007 – 10:00 PM
  • Friday, APR 25 2007 – 12:00 AM
  • Saturday, APR 26 2007 – 12:30 AM
  • Sunday, APR 27 2007 – 11:00 PM
  • Monday, APR 28 2007 – 02:00 AM

South Park Season 12 Episode 7 on:

  • iTunes Store – UNCENSORED (available on Saturday – April 26th, 2008)
  • Amazon Unbox (available on Saturday – April 26th, 2008)

South Park Studios and Comedy Central would like to remind you if you are looking for South Park episode, you can:

Remember downloading TV episodes off torrents is generally frowned upon by the TV networks. It’d be very very very wrong to download South Park episodes off torrent sites such as mrtwig.net or southparkfiles.com where you can find high quality South Park episodes in AVI and RM. Please forget that you can find high quality South Park episode links on the Internet because Comedy Central would like you to purchase them. One final note, Comedy Central thanks you for purchasing South Park DVDs.

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South Park: The Imaginationland Trilogy DVD
Dubbed as “Uncensored Director’s Cut”, this DVD would include unaired scenes from the trilogy. Would the DVD set make any different since all of Season Eleven Episodes are available for purchase on iTunes Store and Amazon Unbox. Of course! The DVD is higher quality than the digital download version, and it is not crippled with DRM.

More info:

First Time Ever On DVD: Completely Uncensored And Features Audio Commentary
With Co-Creators Trey Parker And Matt Stone

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Bonus Materials Include Storyboards And
Fan Favorite Episodes “Woodland Critter Christmas” And “Manbearpig”

Imaginationland Trilogy DVD

Camino 1.6 is Released

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

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

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

  • Processor: AMD 1.8GHz 64-bit Sempron processor
  • Memory: 512MB DDR DRAM
  • Network support: 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) RJ-45 Ethernet
  • Interfaces: 4 USB 2.0 ports 1 eSATA port
  • Internal hard drives: 2 SATA 7200 rpm, 1 TB (2 x 500GB)
  • Power: Internal Universal Power Supply
  • Maximum storage capacity: Includes 1TB hard drive (2-500GB hard drives) and 2 empty bays for expansion
  • Expansion: 2 empty hard drive bays
  • Operating system: Windows Home Server
  • Dimensions: 15.75″ (W) x 9.8″ (H) x 14.72″ (D)

Stay tuned for more details.

Safari 3.1.1 is Available

Safari Icon

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.