Ever encountered a time that you received an email supposedly coming from a contact but which your contact did not send to you? Or maybe a friend getting emails from you that you did not make?
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Spoofed Emails
Friday, November 13th, 2009SMF vulnerability exploited in PHPUGPH’s forum
Thursday, June 25th, 2009My preferred Forum engine is PHPBB3 (and they do have a history of getting hacked previously) but if your forum is on (Simple Machines) SMF read how PHPUGPH’s forum was hacked in here but is now backed online.
Update: SMF has posted a related security bulletin previously. So for Forum admins make sure to watch out for security announcements coming from your chosen apps.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
GWH Web Tip 2: Do not mind the web host disk space much
Sunday, June 21st, 2009When looking for a web hosting plan- do you really need to look for a plan that would offer you so much disk space?
As a web hosting client before as well, my unsolicited opinion is- please don’t! I have come across companies offering unlimited disk space in their plans but when you read through their terms of service they have explicit limitations stated in there (whether it is a limit of the number of files or inodes or that they would be charging for excess usage of disk space). So technically it is not unlimited at all. I even come across one that offers such but when you look at the cpanel of your hosting plan it is stated there that their machine is just an i686 or P4.
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GWH Web Tip 1: Cross browser checking
Sunday, June 21st, 2009As a web developer, my usual environment when coding is Firefox in my preferred OS of Ubuntu with a 1024 width resolution. But reading through statistics like this, would let you think that you should be coding for Microsoft Platform of at least IE7- the most popular browser there is based on statistics.
Firefox is slowly catching up and what you basically see on Firefox- Ubuntu is the same in Windows – Firefox. So not much problem there until you view your site in Internet Explorer browser specially in IE6. There are still a lot of people using XP until now with IE6 the default browser that comes with it. So IE6 cannot be bypassed in your tests.
But IE6 is hard to code for. There are png transparency issues and unicode html characters not able to render. Even the peso character sign would just be a square in IE6. So I just use either PHP or a peso image. And darn there would be a lot of layout problems you will encounter. (Thankfully there is Xenocode browser sandbox to be able to test your sites in different browsers without the tedious task of installing each version separately.)
To be able to reach out to as many audience, a web developer or designer should definitely check their sites on most browsers.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
