In Dec 2009: A security flaw found in SSL that is applied on websites was noted. A researcher informed various companies but only Google responded. Flaw allows hackers to access cookie history and buyers information.

Companies that ignored or refused to comment: Hotmail. Yahoomail. Facebook. Amazon

In Dec 2009: Firefox tops bug list.

Firefox 102, Adobe Reader 45, Microsoft Office 41, Microsoft IE 30. As usual microsoft dominates top bug list?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10417785-245.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10023958-83.html

When programmers learns to become designers, we will have peace on earth. Its pointless to invent a tool that has 1000 controls and can manipulate the world. Chance is, the inventor wont remember what the tool does anyway. Keep it Bleeding simple.

Servers, mail services, the lot. Just need 1 button. Play and Do what its supposed to be… very well. With such rapid growth of development. It is astonishing to see how much detail is needed to get a single task completed. 98% of the time, people need a tool to do a simple task. So design the tool to be simple for that 98%. Have cool millions of other features in your tool? Great! hide it. Noone else wants to know, and until that 2% asks, keep it in the bag.

Softwares and applications nowadays, should be self-healing, self-environment aware, scalable and flexible. Servers have millions of uses..Yes.. but 98% need it just to serve webpages. 98% just need it to handle mail. Focusing to excel on these 2 points will cure 98% of the problem.

Hmm. work has commenced on taoism.org.uk and a new web application called chenggu. Using sqlite, which is fantastic, the database was compressed to a filesize of 97kb. The data works using PDO from php. These few weeks, work will continue on chenggu. Iphone is considered as a platform for this development. However it only supports cocoa development only in objectiveC. will have to look into alternatives or when it supports python as a language to implement iphone applications in.

iptables -A INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type 30 -j ACCEPT

ICMP type 8 is “echo-request”, which you may substitute for ‘8′ if you wish.
ICMP type 30 is “traceroute”, which, again, you may substitute for ‘30′ if you wish.

Ahh i read the above from a forum and lost the url in the process. Pity. Acknowledgments to the person who wrote this short but useful item.