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Running both IE7 AND IE6 in Windows XP

Yousif Al Saif from tredosoft.com has programmed an installer allowing you to run multiple Internet Explorer versions in parallel on your Windows XP: Download Multiple IE installer (10.3MB) please read Yousif’s original article here and check out the comments on this article as well, you will find some useful information there as well.

os x survival kit (darwin ports packages)

as i had to reinstall my mac book pro after my harddisk has died recently, i post my list of essential packages i need for my developments in Mac OS X.

as i had to reinstall my mac book pro after my harddisk has died recently, i post my list of essential packages i need for my developments in Mac OS X.

Ubuntu: networking tip

But when i tried to ping some other machine, this didn’t work 🙁 I checked /var/log/messages and the onboard Broadcom Interface showed up as eth1, but i was not able to start it. When i ran $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart i got some error messages like: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1 eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device No clue what went wrong, i googled a lot and finally i stumbled upon this forum entry: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221768 Then i ran: $ ifconfig -a and got a list with my network interfaces and more importantly with it’s MAC address.

Ubuntu Server insecurity?

i just found out that my Ubuntu Server 6.10 has login shells for almost all users set in the /etc/passwd file! That’s a very bad idea because this maybe enabled someone to install “Data Cha0s Back Backdoor” on my machine 🙁 I checked this with 2 other fresh Ubuntu Server 6.10 installations and both also had the login shells for users like daemon, mail, www-data and so on. Especially www-data should not have a chance to create a shell in my opinion!