Google has a tradition of doing zany things to their logo and Web site for holidays and other important events. Today Google greets us with a shockingly dark page and states “We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn…”. Google provides a little more detail, going on to say this is “… a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour“.
Many business owners and entrepreneurs like myself are probably feeling the harsh economy here in the US. Many businesses have been laying workers off, cutting costs at all costs, and seeking dreaded lines of credit just to weather the storm.
I’ve seen many business news clips, blogs and articles lately that offer advice on keeping your business alive during tough times. There is some good advice and some bad advice, and some advice that’s just a waste of time. I decided to try and boil down the top ten recession survival techniques in my book right now.
I was digging around my computer looking for a particular media file needed for a project when I stumbled across these pics from last summer. There was a very intense and long-lasting heat lightning storm visible from my rooftop, so of course I grabbed my camera and tried to capture some of it. At the time I was using a pretty old Sony 1.2MP so the picture quality is far from superb. The coolness factor is pretty high though, and if for no better reason than not losing them I decided to post them here.
I like coffee. In fact, I really like coffee. I drink coffee when I wake up, I drink it all day, and I even drink it before bed. Part of this mad addiction can be attributed to the fact that I don’t like going to sleep. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I love sleep, but between a business and a baby it’s more myth than reality. So I drink coffee, and lots of it.
It was just announced that the Horde webmail application has been updated to version 3.1.7 to address the arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability found recently. cPanel has also performed upgrades in the PHP application security model for Horde, PHPMyAdmin, and PHPPGAdmin. It is recommended that all cPanel users update immediately. You can update with WHM under “Upgrade to Latest Version” or check your version with command line:
Wow, I’m slick. Somehow I managed to dump an entire mocha latte *into* my computer… it went through the top fan which then sprayed it around my case like a sprinkler system. In the few moments I was frozen in shock, a small puddle was forming on the video card and my monitor displayed what appeared to be a digital aneurysm. By some crazy stroke of luck, everything still works perfectly after shutting down and washing my video card with tap water.
After upgrading to PHP 5.2.5 and Apache 2.6.9 using the new easyapache3 scripts (WHM > Software > Apache Update) I was still left without Zend Optimizer. WHM and easyapache3 installed Zend Optimizer (located in /usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.0/) but after some mucking about I made the mistake of running /scripts/installzendopt - previously used to install Zend Optimizer with a step-by-step installer.
Admins running cPanel w/ Horde should pay special attention to the security update released by cPanel. An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability was discovered in the Horde webmail app and a patch is included in cPanel builds 11.18.2+ (11.19.2+ for EDGE).
