Archive for September, 2008

Joomla 1.5.7 Security release is now available

September 12th, 2008

Joomla! has released the latest version of their Open Source Software. In a nutshell, the release contains fixes for 1 critical and 2 moderate vulnerabilities.

The Developers urge all 1.5.x users to upgrade _now_

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Linkr – a beautiful extension for Joomla 1.5

September 9th, 2008

If you are a Joomla user or developer, then you would have come accross the requirement of linking to articles and/or menu items from the WYSIWYG editor.

The current way is tedious. You’d either have to try and guess the URL and have some sort of workaround so that you can remember how to format links. This requirement has always stumped us in the past, but after some R&D prior to coding up my own solution, I found out about the Linkr extension for Joomla 1.5!

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Ubuntu Linux: Tweak your network connectivity and/or performance by disabling IPV6

September 1st, 2008

Update: 17 March 2009: A quick note – this will only work for kernels preceeding 2.6.28-4.

While browsing for a solution for Firefox’s slow connection “bug”, I found a more “global” solution in Ubuntu. In short, the global solution is to blacklist IPV6.

You can do this simply by adding the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

blacklist ipv6

» Read more: Ubuntu Linux: Tweak your network connectivity and/or performance by disabling IPV6