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Slow Internet access for PLDT users

August 12th, 2009

A segment of the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan suffered a serious cable fault on Wednesday, causing Internet traffic to be rerouted onto other undersea cables and slowing Internet access for some users in Southeast Asia. At about 10:50 a.m. on Wednesday, local time, an alarm signaled a cable fault on Segment 7 of APCN2, which connects Hong Kong and Shantou, China. The disruption caused a temporary loss of service on the undersea link but all customers that use the cable were soon shifted to capacity on other cables, according to a source familiar with the situation. The APCN2 cable is owned by a consortium of 26 telecom operators from 14 different countries. The cable links Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan. The exact cause of the APCN2 fault was not immediately known. The alarm indicated the disruption was caused by a “single point of failure,” which suggests a vari..... Read more

Hardening Wordpress Security

July 2nd, 2009

this tutorial will guide you how to increase your wordpress security by using a referral script and htaccess file combination, The word security is derived from the Ancient Greek “Se-Cura” and literally translates to “without fear”. ‘Security’ is therefore the state of being secure, or the actions employed to achieve that state, i.e. to be secure is to be without fear of harm. A form of protection where a separation is created between the assets and the threat. This includes but is not limited to the elimination of either the asset or the threat. In order to be secure, either the asset is physically removed from the threat or the threat is physically removed from the asset first you need to go to your wp-login.php add this code on your wp-login.php file require( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-auth.php' ); then create file named wp-auth.php then paste this code <?php /** * @author xMoDx * @copyright 2009 */ $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; $erro..... Read more

michael jackson died

June 26th, 2009

Michael Jackson dies in LA hospital Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the “King of Pop” and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. He was 50. The person said Jackson died in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda told the newspaper. Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white ..... Read more

Mutation of H1N1 Discovered in Brazil

June 25th, 2009

Brazilian scientists have identified a new strain of the H1N1 virus after examining samples from a patient in Sao Paulo, their institute The variant has been called A/Sao Paulo/1454/H1N1 by the Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute, which compared it with samples of the A(H1N1) swine flu from California. The genetic sequence of the new sub-type of the H1N1 virus was isolated by a virology team lead by one of its researchers, Terezinha Maria de Paiva, the institute said in a statement. The mutation comprised of alterations in the Hemagglutinin protein which allows the virus to infect new hosts, it said. It was not yet known whether the new strain was more aggressive than the current A(H1N1) virus which has been declared pandemic by the World Health Organization. The genetic make-up of the H1N1 virus and its subvariants are important for scientists. Sponsored Links: google_ad_client = "pub-0983540800597903"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "468x15..... Read more

#!/bin/bash – or #!/bin/bash — In A Shell Script

June 24th, 2009

Question: I know #!/bin/bash is shebang line. But, I noticed a few shell script shebang line ends with a single dash ( #!/bin/bash - ) or double dash ( #!/bin/bash -- ). Can you explains me purpose of such shebang line? Answer: A - or -- signals the end of options and disables further option processing i.e. bash will not accept any of its option. Any arguments after the -- are treated as filenames and arguments. An argument of - is equivalent to --. This is done to improve script security. Some user may perform setuid based script root spoofing. Sponsored Links: google_ad_client = "pub-0983540800597903"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "468x15_0ads_al"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "FFFFFF"; google_color_text = "555555"; google_color_url = "555555"; To avoid interpreter spoofing you need to add -- to #!/bin/bash. This is rare but possible attack. ..... Read more