software
WordPress 2.6
I’ve successfully upgrade my blog software to WordPress 2.6. What’s new and improvement can be found at www.wordpress.org or if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds spare time, you can watch the video below.
Firefox 3
Does anyone know Firefox? It is a rival Internet browser to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The developer claims that it is faster and more secure than IE. It gain more and more popularity as the market share grows. The Mozilla foundation is continually develop and add more functionality to this program. And now it come to the third generation.
For over 34 months that Mozilla foundation and developer around the world develop Firefox 3. They had announced that the will release long await Firefox 3 on June 17… (see the announcement HERE) They even have a campaign to set a download World Record.
But wait June 17 on whose time? Is it GMT, PDT, ICT or what? It is clearly that they are over joy on their new product and forget that there is time zone in use on this planet. People on one side that get to June 17 than others wait the whole day wait for Firefox to appears and they announce. Until later on June 17 they must have tones of e-mail from east side of the world that “where is Firefox on June 17? I’m about to go to bed already” that they announce that it will be June 17 at 1700 UTC (see the announcement HERE)
By the time they release their product, it is already June 18 here already.
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July 18 1.12 GMT
Now the download link is up. You can get FF3 by clicking HERE (the link download FF3 direct from Mozilla.com)
WinXP SP3… Finally
Microsoft has released the latest and final service pack for the old and faithful Windows XP. The Service Pack 3 or SP3 is intended to be a collection of previously-released fixes and product enhancements, as well as a few new features that are unique to this release.
When talking about “new” feature for SP3, do not expect a dramatic feature. That what Vista is here for. See the list and you will know.
Network Access Protection compatibility. Announced years ago, this feature allows Windows XP machines to interact with the NAP feature in Windows Server 2008. This functionality is built into the RTM version of Windows Vista as well.
Product Key-less install option. As with Windows Vista, new XP with SP3 installs can proceed without entering a product key during Setup.
Kernel Mode Cryptographics Module. A new kernel module that “encapsulates several different cryptographic algorithms,” according to Microsoft.
“Black hole” router detection algorithm. XP gains the ability to ignore network routers that incorrectly drop certain kinds of network packets. This, too, is a feature of Windows Vista.
You can download the full SP3 from Microsoft from this link directly. The whole thing is 316 MB, so a high speed Internet is needed.
WordPress 2.5
ใครที่เป็น blogger ตัวยงก็คงจะรู้จักโปรแกรม WordPress ดีพอสมควร ตอนนี้มี version 2.5 release candidate 1 ออกมาให้ลองเล่นดูแล้ว ใครสนใจก็ไปลองเอามาเล่นดูได้ที่นี่ครับ
Update 31-03-08: Now WordPress 2.5 is officially released. Kanok.net/blog has also upgraded to 2.5
Let me have my full USB drive
Last week I bought 2G Kingston DataTraveler 101R special edition (Year of the Rat) and plan to put my existing JetFlash 2G thumb drive as a file backup.
I expect this new USB drive to be empty or just has some bundled software in the drive but not the full locked partition with cripple software. Kingston tech support confirm that it cannot be removed. I may need to find a way to remove this partition in order to continue using my TrueCrypt security software.
They should have put a warning at the package that the bundled software cannot be removed.
So long Kingston. If you continue doing this, you will not get my money again.
kanok.net/blog (WordPress 2.3.3)
Just a quick notice that WP has release version 2.3.3, a security release. Learn more from this release at WordPress blog.
WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.
Chiang Mai & Mobile Blog
Tomorrow I’ll leave for Chiang Mai, hope to get some “บุญ” and lot of fun 🙂 Check out the weather there. Looks like I need to bring lots of coat.
Mobile Blog
Firstly I was worried that I will not be able to update my blog while in Chiang Mai. Now I find a software called MobiBlockr which runs on my PDA. It says it can post photo too. So I can keep updating my blog while in Chiang Mai. Looks like the fun is about to begin.
WordPress 2.3.1
WordPress software ตัวเก่งของผมที่ใช้ทำ blog อยู่ขณะนี้ ออกรุ่นใหม่คือ 2.3.1 ซึ่งทาง blog development แจ้งมาว่ามีการ update หรือ bug fix อยู่กว่า 20 รายการ ที่สำคัญๆ คือการแก้ bug ของ Windows Live Writer ด้วย ก็หวังว่าคงไม่ทำให้ blog เล็กๆ อย่างนี้ต้องเดี้ยง เพราะ version ไม่ compatable นะ
M$ Live Writer
Who will imagine that Microsoft will create tool to edit others blog software apart from their own Live Space. Now I’m writing this on MS Live Writer to post to my blog which use WordPress. Amazingly, it is very useful software indeed.
Checkout Windows Live Writer (WLW) at http://idea.live.com