I just finished upgrading my site to the latest version of WordPress.

Hopefully there won’t be any need to upgrade it any time soon.

If you need advise on how to upgrade, visit this post i made when i did my first WordPress upgrade.

WordPress 2.3.3 is available.

There has been some security flaws and other bugs that are addressed in this new version.

WordPress Development Team:

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.

Also, there is a vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that is being actively exploited right now. If you are using this plugin, please remove it until an update is available from its author.

Since we are talking security, remember to use strong passwords and change them regularly. While you’re updating WP and your plugins, consider refreshing your passwords.

More info here.

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There has been a little hype for the last couple of days regarding a supposedly leaked version of Windows 7 Milestone 1, the nest version of Windows that will replace Windows Vista in the future.

A few monts ago i read about a demonstration of the new Kernel of Windows 7. It is called MinWin and you can read about it and see a video showing it here.

According to a Neowin user, he or she tried it and posted this:

[Over the weekend I finally managed to play with the build…. but disappointed.

One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver (never happened when installing Vista, as my drives were set as IDE in BIOS). After adding the driver from my USB thumb drive it would finally install. It didn’t boot after first restart, however.

On my laptop it installed perfectly, but with no driver support for the video card. After numerous tries I gave up in the end, so Aero is now left in the dark.

Oh well, so there’s nothing to show...

The build is 6.1.6519.

The GUI, as much of you have guessed, is very much like Vista. I don’t know if once the right video card driver is in place whether there will be flashy stuffs to surprise me. The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot]….

If you are interested you can read more details and all the discusion here.

I already downloaded an ISO image file of this build but i haven’t tried it yet.

I just finished searching for some plugins i would like to implement to my site.

I will add more cool stuff like more widgets, some plugins i would like to use and at last a contact form for people to send me e-mails.

Maybe tomorrow i can check those things locally in my desktop before putting them on the server.

I just finished upgrading this site to the latest version of Wordpress.

Remember to make backups of you site before upgrading. If anyone finds a problem/error with my site, please let me know so i can work on it. I always test my site locally before going online but one can never be sure enough.

If you need instructions or advise on how to make an upgrade, refer to my previous post.

Today, Microsoft released the first Service Pack 1 for Office 2007. It features improved performace and fixes various security vulnerabilities, among other things.

If you need to deploy it in your installations, you can use the Updates folder provided by Microsoft in the office installation source. Just run the Service Pack 1 file with /extract parameter and copy all the MSP files to Updates folder.

office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract
When you install Office, this patches are automatically applied, so there is no need to install them separately.

Remember to choose the appropriate language for your installation because this Service Pack is not language neutral.

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Some days ago there were reports of a flaw in the Macrovision SafeDisc component in Windows XP and Windows 2003. For those of you who didn’t know SafeDisc is embedded in Windows as a part of the Microsoft DRM security scheme. The vulnerability is not critical as it may seem because it requires a local system account to exploit it.

The component responsible for the flaw is the SafeDisc driver SECDRV.SYS.

Microsoft has said that it will provide an update in the next Patch Tuesday on November 13th. If you want to resolve the issue right away, Macrovision has released an updated driver.

Windows Vista users are not affected by this flaw.

More than a year ago, there was an error in their beta testing program and some guy posted a way to register an account during that phase. I was able to do it and since then i have my @live.com email account.

Microsoft has just made public the registration for everyone for people to register and get their email accounts to match their Windows Live brand and services.

The only think im not sure if that i don’t know if current users of @msn or @hotmail can migrate their accounts to @live.com but if you want you account you can register here.