Journey of our life…to a greener earth

Mozilla has announced a number of fixes for its Firefox browser, claiming that four of the flaws are critical. There are 2 “High” rating, 2 listed “Moderate” and 4 minor vulnerabilities.

Below is the flaws have been fixed in version 3.0.9

MFSA 2009-22 Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs
MFSA 2009-21 POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame
MFSA 2009-20 Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites
MFSA 2009-19 Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString
MFSA 2009-18 XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings
MFSA 2009-17 Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: scheme
MFSA 2009-16 jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI
MFSA 2009-15 URL spoofing with box drawing character
MFSA 2009-14 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.9)

Mozilla strongly advice to upgrade to the latest version 3.0.9 from here as soon as possible and I just upgraded mine.

Source : SC Magazine

Recently my vista display a red cross on the network indicator and I can’t recall what I’ve done or install. Weird thing is my network connection is working fine without any

interruption but the network icon just displaying red cross there is sometimes quite difficult to know if the network is working fine or not.

So I search the Google for any solution to fix it but failed to find any but on the found 1 from Microsoft and it does not provide any solution just ask to ignore the red cross on the network, here is the write-up from Microsoft

To work around this problem, you can safely ignore the red "X" over the connection icon that indicates that the network adapter is disconnected. The connection status is updated correctly even when the connection icon incorrectly displays a red "X."

What a good answer from Microsoft and i think they not going to fix it as Windows 7 is coming…think so. Here is the full article of the write-up.

Its a tired long day for today as I spend almost half a day to setup the Squid-2.6 in transparent mode with squidGuard and I think most of you will think that I’m that dumb takes so long to configure that. It’s a very good experience to learn that you always need to keep up to the latest update on Linux as if you have stopped playing with it you will loose out.

That’s why it took me so long till I found out what’s the problem. First there was problem with squidGuard that all the configuration was done perfectly but the filtering was not working, end up manage to find the problem was the blacklist was not build with .db format. Second problem was the new Squid configuration for transparent mode was different from the older version and much more simpler. Below I write up all the steps to configure transparent proxy with squidGuard.

I was looking on some of the video on Youtube and I click on a video of the Hybrid car comparison, to my surprise the video come out to be upside down and I was thinking was it April fool jokes or what? So I choose another video but come out the same, then I send the link to my friend as I suspect could it be my pc problem or what ever but my friend also seeing the same thing.

But my friend told me that Youtube was doing a maintenance, so not sure if it cause by maintenance or April fool jokes. Does it happen to you?

This is the photo taken last weekend on the 1st International Hot Air Balloon held @ Putrajaya, hope you guys enjoy the photo and sorry about the poor shot as taken using compact camera.

This photo also available in the photo section.

Today I received the Earth Hour T-shirt that I order from WWF.org.my via postage and I plan to wear it on a wedding dinner this Saturday night.Do you think the restaurant will follow the event by turning off the light during the dinner with just candle light and that would be awesome.I’m really can’t wait till that day to see how is it like whole city or even country without lights.

So what your plan for this big event?

You might not need to join the crowd but just stay out in the car porch and enjoy the night view, just feel like you’re on a beach…minus the wave sound. I hope most of the Malaysian are able to support for this event by just turning off the lights for 1 hour to save our mother nature although some might think what we can save by just turning off the light for an hour, right?

This is not just for 1 home or country but is worldwide and it won’t end here as this is also to educate people on saving planet by recycling, reduce pollution, save tree and energy.

Hope together we can save the planet to have a greener planet.

Earth Hour | WWF

I use to read a lot of user guide, how-to and magazine that most of the time we can’t finish reading it in short time. If we read books, we can just slip in a paper bookmark but how we going to do it for PDF files?

There must be a way to digitally bookmark where you can read back where you left off. I can’t find any option to do it in Adobe Acrobat Reader so  I do a quick dig in google and found ways to enable the bookmark with just install a plugin into the adobe plugin folders. This plugin is very useful for those who read lots of long story books in pdf files.

You can download the plugin from here and copy the plugin into the following location based of your adobe version

The Hot Air Balloon Fest start today @ Putrajaya till 22 March 2009, the event is a collaboration with AKA Balloon Sdn. Bhd and there is about 50 balloonist from Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Britian, The United States, France, Belgium, Holland and New Zealand.

I’ve not seen a real hot air balloon in my life and I won’t miss out this event, we plan to go during the weekend with my wife and brother Wing Loon for a photography session there. The event are open for public plus they also serve cocktail and mocktail charge ranging RM 15++ to RM 22++.

So don’t miss out this opportunity to see Hot Air Balloon @ Putrajaya.

Itinerary as below

Date Time Activities

19 March
Thursday 0700 – 0745 Arrival of media & guests
0745 – 0815 Balloon area opened to photographers; Photo Op#1
0745 – 0900 Balloon Fun Fly with Media
0900 – 1000 Para motor showcase
Children Colouring Contest (aged 7-9), prize: hot air balloon ride with parents
1000 – 1130 Remote Control Flying Aircraft Display
Children Colouring Contest (aged 10-12), prize: hot air balloon ride with parents
1130 – 1200 Paper Airplane Contest
1500 – 1630 Remote Control Flying Aircraft Display
1630 – 1730 Para motor showcase
1730 – 1900 Balloon Fun Fly
1745 – 1815 Balloon area opened to photographers; Photo Op#2

Get to know that Apple release Safari 4 browser for public beta from Wing Loon blog and I get hooked on the Top Sites features that look like Aero in Vista. So I grab a copy from here and the file size is about 26 MB, after I install so I going to test it and test on few sites that I used to go on daily basis. I find the loading speed is really fast and does not encounter any issue on any web sites that require java or activeX but there I do found some of the limitation as below

Great news for Salak South road users where Besraya RM 1.30 toll in Salak Jaya aka Salak South have been abolished today but they will be another toll build somewhere is Loke Yew area and the location of the toll has not been confirm yet. As you can see the Salak Jaya toll was not really much people who use that road and then only they choose to close down as government will paid compensate to them.

In your opinion which other tolls that should be abolished? For me I will choose LDP, from Puchong to Sunway the distance is within 7km and the traveling time takes about 30 min to 45 min to reach plus they charge consumer RM 1.60 just to stuck in the jam. How ridiculous is this and there is nothing much have been done to improve the situation.