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WingLoon Dot Com has been around for 5 months 18 days and has a PR1 in Pagerank. It is time for me to reward my commentators. I am going to reward my blog’s #1 top commentator through “WingLoon Dot Com Top Commentator Contest” during the month of December 2007.

This contest will start on 22 December 2007 01:00:00 Malaysia Time and ends on 31 December 2007 01:00:00 Malaysia Time. The winner will be determine by the number of comments posted during the contest. The rules to qualify as an entry is to post as many comments in my blog and must have one comment posted for each of my post below: -

* FoxClocks extension for Mozilla Firefox
* My Linksys with DD-WRT
* ScrapBlog

The winner will get a FREE ScratchBack Top Spot link in Rajawang’s blog.

First of all, I have to congratulate my cousin sister Elaine Siew and Terence Leong. I would like to offer my best wishes to the newly wed couple. My family attended this wedding dinner at The Saujana, Kuala Lumpur.

Today she is 4 months 2 weeks 5 days old.

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Why lighttpd and not Apache? First of all, what is lighttpd? These four words can describe lighttpd - security, speed, compliance, and flexibility. lighttpd (pron. lighty) is a web server that has been optimized for high performance environment. With its very low memory footprint compared to other web servers, takes care of CPU load and advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) makes lighttpd the perfect web server software for every server that suffers load problems. Best of all lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo.

Let’s get started. I am running CentOS 5 64-bit. You can’t get lighttpd from the official CentOS 5.0 repositories. We have to download lighttpd from DAG RPM Repository. Let’s download these packages lighttpd and lighttpd-fastcgi like this: -

wget -c http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/lighttpd/lighttpd-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

wget -c http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/lighttpd/lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Next, we can install the lighttpd and lighttpd-fastcgi like this: -

rpm -ivh lighttpd-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Next, we can update the runlevel information for system services so lighttpd start up automatically whenever the system boots like this: -

chkconfig --levels 235 lighttpd on

service lighttpd start

lighttpd’s default document root is at /srv/www/lighttpd and the configuration file is at /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf on CentOS 5.

Simply create an index.html file and upload to the lighttpd document root. Now, point your favorite web browser to the lighttpd IP address and you will see the index.html file you created.

If you found these helpful, please contribute to help:

Source: lighttpd | DAG RPM Repository

Today she is 4 months 2 weeks old.

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If you owned a HP laptop, please beware. Chances of your Microsoft Windows laptop got hijacked is pretty simple by luring you to a malicious website. A researcher, known as “porkythepig” discovered this vulnerability. He offers a web page that detects if your HP laptop is vulnerable (use it at your own risk).

According to Milw0rm.com post, the pwnage comes courtesy of “HP Info Center” which comes installed on most HP laptops. This is one of the ActiveX controls uses three insecure methods that leave users open to remote code execution and remote registry manipulation-based attacks. The file HPInfoDLL.dll is targeted for this exploit.

There is no patch available at the moment. To avoid this attack, do not click on suspicious link, install McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer and use an alternative web browser, Mozilla Firefox with McAfee SiteAdvisor and NoScript.

Source: Ryan Naraine’s Zero Day Blog

Are you still using the traditional way of faxing? Fax (short for facsimile) is a telecommunications technology used to send and receive documents over the telephone network using a fax machine. There are alternative ways of faxing out there in the marketplace such as using a Fax Server, Fax over IP, VoIP Fax and Fax over Email.

Axacore is providing a total integration of document solution and fax solution for you to decrease paper dependence and increase efficiency as well as increase security. You can now fax easily with a single click of a button using Axacore’s fax appliance, FaxAgent.

FaxAgent provides unique features like unlimited users and flexible licensing, seamless interface with analog, digital and VoIP, easily render most document formats, easy Microsoft Outlook integration, fault tolerant architecture, dynamic least cost routing and application gateways readiness.

Want to reduce fax costs? Order a FaxAgent now!

Source: Axacore

Yesterday, my friend had replaced his personal computer’s hard drive due to a failure. He is calling for help because he can’t watch his favorite genuine DVDs after he had successfully installed the genuine Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition. I told him to calm down. There is one complete codec packs which can help him out there which can be downloaded from the Internet. Do you guys heard of XP Codec Pack?

XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec packs which helps to play all major audio and video formats. The Media Player Classic is a simple integrated player that play almost all audio and video files with XP Codec Pack installed. XP Codec Pack 2.3.4 includes: -

* AC3Filter 1.46
* AVI Splitter 1.0.0.9
* CDXA Reader 1.0.0.2
* CoreAAC (AAC DirectShow Decoder) 1.2.0
* CoreFlac Decoder 0.4
* FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2007.07.01
* GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder 0.1.2.0
* Matroska Splitter 1.0.3.0
** Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1
* OggSplitter/CoreVorbis 1.1.0.79
* RadLight APE Filter 1.0.0.4
* RadLight MPC Filter 1.0.0.4
* RadLight OFR Filter 1.0.0.4
* RealMedia Splitter 1.0.1.2
* RadLight TTA Filter 1.0.0.2
* The Codec Detective 2.0
* VSFilter (DirectVobSub) 2.38

The most important features of XP Codec Pack is they are spyware and adware FREE!

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Pidgin formerly known as Gaim is a cross-platform multi-protocol Instant Messaging (IM) client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin is compatible with AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, Novell GroupWise Messenger, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Lotus Sametime, Yahoo! and Zephyr.

With Pidgin, you can now log into an IRC channel, chatting with your friends in ICQ and talking to a friend in Yahoo Messenger.

Source: Pidgin

Today she is 4 months 1 week 1 day old.

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