February 2009 Archives

eMule-Project.net announced that 0.49c is released on Feb. 22, 2009.

New features shown as below:

* Ability to share and unshare single files instead of directories only and also support of Drag&Drop to do so easily
* Support of new security features on Windows Vista (and partially also XP) to further harden eMule against any possible exploits
* Automatic recovery of corrupt part.met files by using the backupfiles
* Kad improvements like automatic search-keyword rearranging (allowing searches like 'an eMule' and also helping to reduce load on busy nodes), avoiding fragmented UDP packets (making it more compatible to zealous firewalls) and other changes
* Improving UPnP by refreshing the mappings as well as adding Webinterface support
* And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes

As I mentioned before, I will make a distillate mod for phpBB forum program.
It is a good time to release it.

Distillate Mod 0.1b
distillate-mod.zip

Tested with:
* phpBB 3.0.4
* ProSilver
With Chinese Language support.

It is very rough. May have some of bugs or errors.
Any questions please post here.

Just use following script as below

<meta name="keywords" content="<mt:EntryTags glue=", "><$mt:TagName$></mt:EntryTags>" />
<meta name="description" content="<$MTEntryBody words="30"$>" />

Please be carefully when you change your template file.

It is so cute.

It is good to see phpBB come back.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1436615&sid=dd745501f600206640f52e3c7b614707

It gave us an sample, that be careful on any small issue. Small hole will lead to a big problem.
Keep software update is such an important thing.

phpBB official site was hacked one week ago. It is still under maintenance.

Maintenance

We are sorry to report that we have been attacked through a 0-day-exploit in our PHPList installation (responsible for the mailing list about new releases). phpBB.com will remain unavailable while we work to recover. No vulnerabilities have been found in the phpBB software itself.

You can download phpBB here: http://www.ohloh.net/p/phpbb

You can get support at the temporary support forums or on IRC:
chat.freenode.net #phpbb

A more detailed explanation about the incident.

Press Contact: If you need to get in contact with the management, please email phpbb_press (at) marshalrusty (dot) com.

- the phpBB team

I do have some forum powered by phpBB. It is good news that phpBB software is OK.

I used Free Tax Software last year. Filed my tax return only through this software.
StudioTax.

I recommend it again this year.

It is NETFILE certified already for 2008 Tax.
I downloaded it and installed on my desktop. Because I have the 2007 tax return file with Studiotax. I just import 2007 file into it and no need to re-enter the personal information.

Just double check the information and enter my 2008 data.

Now I am waiting my T4 from the company and T5 from bank, HSBC.

Just be noticed that SWATCH is the one of the biggest watchmaker in the world.

It has 19 watch brands.
- Breguet, Blancpain, Glashütte-Original, Léon Hatot, Jaquet-Droz, Omega and soon Tiffany & Co. in the Prestige and Luxury range;
- Longines, Rado and Union Glashütte in the high range;
- Tissot, ck Calvin Klein, Certina, Mido, Hamilton and Balmain in the middle range;
- Swatch and Flik Flak in the basic range segment;
- Endura in the private-label segment;
- Tourbillon, the retail mark under which all selected Swatch Group watch and jewelry brands of the Prestige and Luxury range, as well as Swatch products are offered in a unique and exclusive multi-brand environment.

It is such a big watch empire.

I am shopping around for an netbook or light notebook. The main job is to read ebook, internet browse, blog writing.

The very interesting thing is I found some netbook has an option of drive, 8G SSD drive or 160G HDD drive, with almost same price.

What is SSD drive?

Based on Wikipedia article,

A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. A SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using SRAM or DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-drive.

I think SSD has no mechanical parts. So it should be very fast.
There are some Youtube clips support my point of view.

I did a post one year ago for PHPBB2 and Gmail. Now I have a PHPBB 3.0.4.
How to config phpBB 3 forum board to make its email setting working with Gmail or Google Apps?

The old way does not work. How can I do?
I find a way to use Gmail smtp facility to send out email.

1) Have the Gmail or Goolge Apps's email account works.

2) Using the menu at the top right edge of the main Gmail window (the one that shows up after you log in), click on Settings, and then Forwarding and POP / IMAP. Under POP Download, click either Enable POP for all Mail, or Enable POP for Mail that Arrives Now (which ever suits your purpose). Configure anything else that appeals to you too. Exit from the Gmail Settings Window after saving your selections (this is important).

I read the article about 10 thinkgs you should know now about SAAS. I think it is ten issues about SAAS. Let me make a digest.

1. SAAS standings
SAAS is not the top technology.

2. What price outages?
It is not bullet proof.

3. Development Target
More and more developer want to use SAAS model.

4. Cost-Effectiveness
It is not clear for long term.

5. Portability & Security
These two points is most important.

6. Law enforcement
The data protect from law?