Just saw a news on BBC saying that UK economy is falling, blah blah… however, the main reason shocked me - the falling of house prices.

IMF and other “economy experts” are saying that because house price is falling rather significantly (for the first time in several years’ time, if I may add), the economy suffers.
With little people already having serious problem securing a home for their families, I’m seriously wondering whose economy is falling here !!

If increasing house price = good economy according to the “experts” — then I’ll say that if those experts undergoes lobotomy, it’ll be actually better for everyone concerned.

some seriously f*cked up thinking is going on here. I sincerely hope that I won’t be the only one noticing this.

It enraged me to see how spammers are spamming blogs - comment spam, trackback spam, referral spam, or just overload your server.

And they’re eroding our defenses quite swiftly - comment preview no longer protects against spammer, and they can even beat CAPTCHA now.

As the case with email spam, I think combined defense would work best - something like CAPTCHA and RBL for blogs. Let’s see if such thing exist for WordPress.

Being a newbie in Java, I thought it as a solid, foolproof language, which doesn’t break under newbie’s foolish coding style.

It seems that I’m wrong - there are ways to bog down Java app servers with stupid code.

Well, not too surprised though, I guess I just have seen too many example already of human stupidity overwhelming even the best computer systems out there.

suPHP is an Apache module which will force PHP scripts to be executed with the permission of its owner.

What does that mean ?

It means that if a script contains a vulnerability, and got exploited, then only that particular user will be affected.

This module is not supposed to be used together with mod_php, and anyway, if you’re using mod_php, any exploited PHP script will give the intruder access to everything accessible by Apache (since mod_php execute scripts as Apache’s user)

Needless to say, suPHP would be of high interest to webhosters, along with mod_security.