MFSA 2007-39 Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition
MFSA 2007-38 Memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv:1.8.1.10)
MFSA 2007-37 jar: URI scheme XSS hazard

But this is not all….

When restarting Firefox to apply the update I was surprised with the message that I cannot install the update because I’m not an owner of the file or do not have administrative privileges…..

After several retries I realized that there is another user logged on my PC and it was using Firefox 🙁 after closing this extra copy update was installed and now I use latest version.

Nov

3

Firefox 2.0.0.9 – Stability update released

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Update of the update:

The 2.0.0.8 release fixed some 200 issues, but accidentally regressed a few things. Most users wonâ€™t see any difference or experience any problems, and those 200 fixes make the 2.0.0.8 update very valuable, but you should never have to choose functionality over security. So weâ€™re working fast to understand and fix these problems, and will shortly be issuing a 2.0.0.9 update to address them. The specific problems are:

Bug 400406 – Firefox will ignore the â€œclearâ€ CSS property when used beneath a box that is using the â€œfloatâ€ property. There is a temporary workaround JS/CSS code available for web developers with affected layouts.

Bug 400467 – Windows Vista users will get â€œJava not foundâ€ or â€œJava not workingâ€ errors when trying to load Java applets after updating. To fix this, users can right-click the Firefox icon and â€œRun as administratorâ€, then browse to a page with a Java applet â€” doing this once will fix the problem and permanently restore Java functionality.

Bug 396695 – Add-ons are disabled after updating. Users can fix this problem by opening their profile folder and removing three files (extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and extensions.cache)

Bug 400421 – Removing a single area element from an image map will cause the entire map to disappear. There is no workaround available at this time.

Bug 400735 – Some Windows users may experience crashes at startup. There is no workaround available at this time.

Oct

17

Best use of PlayStation 3

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Recently scientists discovered the power of Sony PlayStation 3.

But not to play games, but to crunch numbers.

Gravity project utilizes 8 PS 3 running Linux – connected in cluster to replace 200 Supercomputer nodes.

Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. And there is still tremendous scope left for extracting more performance through further optimization.

This “mini” supercomputer is used to help measure these theoretical gravity waves – ripples in space-time that travel at the speed of light that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity predicted would emerge when such an event takes place.

Sep

18

Open directory in terminal from Nautilus

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Many users still do it the old fashion style.

Open terminal
CD to the directory

Now the shortcut:

Right click desired folder in Nautilus and choose Open in terminal

It is simpler and saves some typing. Requires that nautilus-open-terminal package is installed.

Sep

6

How to add Google repository in CentOS

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Google is adding more apps to his Linux repository.

They also have script to setup repositories, but unfortunately it does not recognize CentOS and yum enabled distribution. I’ve added this code to check if yum is installed:

# Check if yum is installed RHEL v5 and CentOS 4.x and 5 if [ '/bin/rpm -q yum' ]; then PACKAGEMANAGER=yum

Resulting script is here:

Google repos for centos

NOTE: After downloading the file just rename it from .txt to .sh and run with the shell:

bash google-repo-setup_CentOS.sh

Currently you can find there only picasa and google desktop

Sep

5

Fix wine fonts in CentOS

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I use wine from rpmforge repository.

It works well, but all system (bitmap) fonts are missing. DAG could not confirm this as bug, but several other CentOS users confirm that this problem exists.

How to fix:

Install wine (You need rpmforge repo enabled)

yum install wine

Install msttcorefonts

Follow these instructions

move /usr/share/wine/fonts to fonts.old (if already exist remove c:\windows\fonts folder too)

cd /usr/share/wine

mv fonts fonts.old

It is done.

You can use wine and all fonts appear.

Sep

5

How to fix problems with RPMforge

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Recently site http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge went down and this broke my YUM. Here is the error:

Setting up repositories Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge

As a solution I’ve edited manually my /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge

And commented out problem site.

Then edited /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

And commented live list and uncommented file. Like this

#mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge

Now YUM it is back. Still get some mirroring errors, but at least I can use it.

Sep

1

KompoZer is now at 0.7.10

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New version (0.7.10) of the “Web authoring system” – KompoZer is available.

Fixes were added to Application itself, HTML editor and CSS editor.
Language packs will be available soon on the web site.

To download the rpm go to http://hbcom.info/kompozer.

Changelog (0.7.7 => 0.7.10):

Application

fixed: the extension manager is now able to use the extensions proper locales (BIG thanks to Motohiko!)

fixed: the same source code now builds on Linux (gcc4.1), MacOSX (gcc3.5), Win32 (vs7.0) and OS/2 (?).

fixed: (win**) KompoZer and Nvu can run simultaneously (various similar bugs have been corrected)

fixed: (win9x) KompoZer now has its own icon in the taskbar (Motohiko again)

fixed: the icon has been changed (thanks Alain & Aubin!)… /Besser so?/ 😉

HTML Editor

fixed: the toolbars can be customized without relaunching KompoZer

fixed: links can be styled in WYSIWYG (‘why do my links stay blue?’)

fixed: display a clickable label on objects, scripts and hidden form inputs (‘normal’ & ‘HTML tags’ views)

added: red dotted borders around <div> containers (‘normal’ & ‘HTML tags’ views)

added: undo/redo buttons in the main toolbar

fixed: hiding the rulers improves speed and reliability

fixed: bug in the vertical ruler that causes Nvu/KompoZer to be stuck in ‘source’ mode

modified: the markup cleaner does not remove empty blocks with ID/class attributes any more

modified: the markup cleaner now considers <ol>, <ul>, <li>, <dl>, <dt>, <dd>, <pre>, <address>, <blockquote> and <tr> elements as blocks

CSS Editor

fixed: CaScadeS is now disabled in ‘HTML Source’ mode

modified: easier creation of style rules

added: ‘Edit selector’ dialog in the CSS editor

fixed: exporting a stylesheet now always use relative URLs

fixed: in the ‘general’ tab, the stylesheet’s URL is displayed in a fixed-width, read-only box (to avoid this bug reported by Charles Cooke)

fixed: a few bugs in the ‘background’ tab (opacity, background-position)

fixed: small UI bug in the ‘border’ tab

added: spin buttons in the ‘box’ tab

modified: the top / left / right / bottom properties are reordered ‘clockwise’, to be consistent with the CSS specification (top / right / bottom / left)

modified: no more ‘expert’ mode in the CSS editor

modified: -100px on the CSS editor window width

modified: single window for all inline styles

added: in the status bar, tags are written in italic if they have inline styles

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