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Wordpress 2.3 was out this past Tuesday. I waited two days to be sure no major gotchas in terms of upgrade hurdles as well as security patches. Well, the in-place upgrade went smoothly. However, , I ran into a database problem about a missing table when editing the first new post, aka, this very post, though. Google turned up nothing!

Upgraded the site in-place this morning from wordpress 2.2.3 to wordpress 2.3, to get the following two new features. There are more new features, plus tons of bug fixes. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night, this site upgraded to the latest wordpress 2.2.3 from 2.2.2. Only one security fix was included for this release, to prevent a user from posting arbitrary HTML. Without this fix, “The user only needs to tamper data sent to post.php or page.php and add a field named no_filter with any value”.

Noteworthy on wordpress.org’s site about this release is apparent enhancements on pages of the changed files and bug fixed.  This is nicely done by ‘Trac’, a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system.  I never heard of Trac before. will check it out at http://trac.edgewall.org/.

Only the following changed files were replaced in-place for this blog site:

wp-includes/plugin.php
wp-includes/query.php
wp-includes/formatting.php
wp-includes/feed-rss2-comments.php
wp-includes/rewrite.php
wp-includes/version.php
wp-includes/pluggable.php
wp-includes/widgets.php
wp-includes/rss.php
wp-includes/vars.php
xmlrpc.php
wp-mail.php
wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
wp-admin/admin-functions.php
wp-admin/rtl.css
wp-admin/options.php
wp-admin/install-rtl.css
wp-admin/widgets-rtl.css

Finally, around lunch time today I subscribed to a free monitor service by SiteUptime.com. Early July, this blog went inaccessible for nine days due to IP address change on my Comcast connection. I was caught off guard, since I had had the same IP for years since 2000. All cache and links were purged from Google Search’s cache, while the site was unacccessible.

I vowed not to have this happen again. With the free monitor service, alerts will sent to me from SiteUptime.com via email should this blog become inaccesible again. If you are serious about your web sites and their readership (your customers, clients, prospects, investors, etc.), you need to maintain uptime and SLA with decent monitoring against services and applications. Monitor Your Web Site 24/7 is a must! Read the rest of this entry »

I did a in-place upgrade to wordpress 2.2.2 for this blog ten minutes ago. It was a breeze as usual. I felt good that I finally could find time to catch up with security patches from Wordpress.org.

This site uses almost-springs-adsense-02 theme, with my own tweaks. One of the tweak, google search at the top of the side bar suddenly overgrew and shadowed the body of the blog. Here is a ugly screenshot. Read the rest of this entry »

I bought a trendnet wireless router recently from CompUSA.  Besides it is only four five dollars after mail-in rebates, I have some desperate needs to replace my existing Netgear MR814v2 wireless router.

• It seems that Netgear has no intention whatsoever to add support of WPA on MR814v2.  Desperate people on the Net attempted to apply MR814v3 firmware to it in order to gain WPA functionality and had failed miserably. I don’t have the time or skill to add WPA support based on the open-source firmware provided by Netgear. Nobody else does either Read the rest of this entry »