WordPress 2.5 was released over the weekend. It was the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community.
The latest version offers a cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard, dashboard widgets, multi-file uploading with progress bar, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, salted passwords with strength meter, cookie encryption, media library, concurrent post editing protection, search posts and pages
You can read about an overview of the features with screenshots or view a 4-minute screencast of the new interface.
You can also jump straight to the upgrade and download information.
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) changed the interface appearance. IE7 won’t let you customize or move the navigation buttons as opposed to the earlier versions.
Many users find that the new placement of the navigation buttons at different positions in the web browser is not practically user friendly. They prefer to group these buttons together.
Quero Toolbar is a navigation bar replacement for Internet Explorer that you can download for free. It supports Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, including IE7.
The toolbar is also integrated with ad blocker, that will block intrusive web advertising.
Visit Quero Toolbar web site to read about its features and download the toolbar.
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A lapse in security for Facebook discovered by Byron Ng, a computer technician from Vancouver, Canada, allowed him to sneak through Facebook’s newly improved privacy controls deployed last week.
The security loophole allowed him to view private photos of celebrities, along with other access restricted photos posted by other Facebook users.
The Associated Press verified Ng’s claim by accessing and viewing a private photo posted by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
According to a Facebook spokeperson, the security hole was fixed immediately after it was reported.
Streamyx issued a notice in its web site informing its users about an anti-spam exercise to mitigate spam in its network.
The action taken was by blocking outgoing SMTP port 25 for all outgoing e-mails from dynamic IP addresses to non-Streamyx mail servers.
In other words, if your company hosts its own mail server, the employees will not be able to send outgoing e-mails if they are connected from home to the office mail server via Streamyx.
SMTP port 25 is a standard outgoing port for most e-mail client software such as, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, and etc.
Streamyx offered several alternative configuration options. Users may either relay their mail server to Streamyx’s SMTP or use port 587 for all outgoing e-mails.
Microsoft released the long awaited Windows Vista SP1 on 18 March 2008. It is available for download via Windows Update.
The Windows Vista SP1 contains more than 300 hot fixes compiled since the launch of Vista. These hot fixes are designed to improve the operating system’s security, speed and stability.
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is a remote control computing software that allows you to view and control another PC desktop remotely over the Internet.
Once the VNC session is established, all VNC data exchange between the client and the remote computers is unencrypted. A malicious user might be able to spoof your VNC data, thus allowing the person to gain access to your computer. VNC software usually contains a VNC server and a VNC viewer program.
Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged between two computers over an encrypted secure channel. PuTTY is a popular and easy to use free SSH client.
Cygwin is an emulation of the Linux/UNIX-like environment and OpenSSH for Windows.
There are free software available for you to download from the Internet to tunnel VNC traffic over SSH connection.
You will need:
Install Cygwin on the remote computer
Login as Administrator.
Create a folder called c:\cygwin
Download the Cygwin setup file and save it in c:\cygwin folder.
Double click and run the Cygwin setup file.
Type c:\cygwin for the “Local Package Directory”.
Click the little View button for “Full” view.
Find the package “openssh“, click on the word “Skip” so that an “X” appears in the column.
Find the package “tcp_wrappers“, click on the word “Skip” so that an “X” appears in the column.
Find the package “zlib“, click on the word “Skip” (should be selected already) so that an “X” appears in the column.
Click “Next” to begin installing Cygwin and SSH.
Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
Click the “New” button to add a new entry to System Variables:
Variable name: cygwin
Variable value: ntsec
Click the “OK” button.
Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
Select the “PATH” variable and click the “Edit” button.
Append ;c:\cygwin\bin to the end of the Variable value.
Click the “OK” button.
Double click the Cygwin icon to open a cygwin window.
At the prompt, type ssh-host-config -y (the “-y” option automatically answers “yes” to the three questions below)
If the script asks about “privilege separation”, answer yes
If the script asks about “create local user sshd”, answer yes
If the script asks about “install sshd as a service”, answer yes
When the script asks about “CYGWIN=”, answer ntsec
To start the sshd service, open a Cygwin window and type either one of the following commands:
net start sshd
cygrunsrv ––start sshd
To stop the sshd service, open a Cygwin window and type either one of the following commands:
net stop sshd
cygrunsrv ––stop sshd
To harmonize Windows user information with Cygwin, open a Cygwin window and type the following commands, one line at a time:
mkpasswd ––local > /etc/passwd
mkgroup ––local > /etc/group
To test your sshd installation, open a Cygwin window and type the following command:
whoami
The current username should be displayed.
ls -h /cygdrive/c
You should see a directory listing.
Type exit at the command prompt to exit the Cygwin SSH session.
Install the VNC Server program
Download the RealVNC setup file on the computer to be controlled remotely.
Double click and run the RealVNC setup file.
Select the checkbox for VNC Server.
Click “Next” to begin the installation.
Type a VNC password when asked so that you will be prompted to enter a password every time you establish a VNC session.
Install the VNC Viewer program
Double click and run the RealVNC setup file on the computer you are using to control the remote computer desktop.
Select the checkbox for VNC Viewer.
Click “Next” to begin the installation.
Configure and run the PuTTY program
Double click and run the PuTTY program file on the computer you are using to control the remote computer desktop.
At the “Session” category in the tree menu, Type the Host Name or IP Address of the remote computer.
The Port should be default to 22 and the Connection type should be default to SSH.
Click the “SSH” category to expand the tree menu, and select “Tunnels”.
Add these entry below the “Add new forwarded port”:
Source port: 5900
Destination: 127.0.0.1:5900
Select the default values as “Local” and “Auto“.
Click the “Session” category in the tree menu.
Type a name at the “Saved Sessions” and click the “Save” button.
Click the “Open” button to establish a new SSH session to the remote computer.
Type the Windows username and password to login.
Leave the PuTTY program window open.
Run the VNC Viewer program
Double click and run the VNC Viewer program.
Type localhost or 127.0.0.1 and click “OK” to connect.
The VNC session should be tunelling through the SSH connection by now.
You can verify it by closing the SSH session. The VNC connection will be disconnected immediately too.
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