It all began when WordPress 2.2 was released. I was overly excited to upgrade, so I fired up my development server and updated my installation as per the instructions in the WordPress Codex. I was so sure I properly followed the steps, only to see later that the whole installation got messed up. I got database errors, memory usage inconsistencies, layout issues and a few more. Overall, it was a frustrating experience. Thank God, I was only doing it on my development machine. Then I thought of upgrading my live WordPress installation with a new design. I figured that it would be a better way for me to have some practice.

Now I present to you, Project Afterlight Burnt Edition.

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Last year it was Novell. Now it’s Linux desktop and server provider, Xandros. In relation to the previous article entitled, Microsoft Wants FOSS Users to Pay Royalties, Microsoft has once again signed a deal with Xandros in which the terms were similar to that of the Novell deal, according to Yahoo! News. Furthermore, Microsoft said in a statement:

"These covenants… will provide customers with confidence that the Xandros technologies they use and deploy in their environments are compliant with Microsoft’s intellectual property."

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As of June 4, 2007, Secunia reported a new vulnerability in WordPress regarding exposure of sensitive information from a remote source. Here’s the description from Secunia:

The security issue is caused due to WordPress using predictable cookies to identify the author of a comment. This can be exploited to view unmoderated comments by guessing and then faking the cookies sent to the original author.

Successful exploitation requires knowledge of the original author’s name and email address.

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High definition has been making big waves since last year. Both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc formats have been gaining huge sales in the movie industry. In light of these recent developments, I began to wonder if consumers are ready to make 1:1 copies of their hard earned BD’s and HD-DVD’s.

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After watching a Buzz Report from CNET TV regarding the new feature of Google Maps which is Street View, I was a bit intrigued by Brian Cooley’s claims that the street level view is cool and invasive. It’s cool in a sense that you won’t be seeing the same old rooftops or anything from a satellite’s perspective anymore. In Street View, you’ll be able to see actual streets complete with cars, trucks, establishments and people. Now many believe this is invasive. As Brian said in the video,

You’ll be able to walk up and down the street, zoom in… recognize faces… And it’s really interesting when you search a residential address… zoom in, see the house number, what car they own and maybe even read the license plate? You can basically reverse engineer the kind of license plate address lookup that most states require a court order to do.

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With the recent updates on the Firefox and Opera Web browsers, I wonder which among the popular browsers is the most secure. Secunia has a huge repository of security advisories on a variety of software and what better way to check on the vulnerabilities of Web browsers than to visit the Website? However, it would take me some time and effort to find those specific vulnerabilities considering that Secunia is a huge repository.

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Releaselog has posted an interesting blog about the the recent acquisitions of tech firms in the past month. Google has been on a buyout spree in the past few months and it seems that everyone’s following the trend. Let’s see which firms are involved this month.

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