First there were Brazilian criminals. Now a phpBB worm is on the wild, defacing any websites still running old version of phpBB.

Idban already showed a quick fix for this to be placed in .htaccess file.
Alternatively, if you have mod_security installed, you can put this instead :

SecFilter "^(.*)2esystem(.*)"

/etc/init.d/apache restart, and you’re set.

I wish I knew Xdebug when I was having problems with my PHP code a few weeks ago - with debugging client, it sure beats using echo

I’m pretty scared using Windows nowadays, and here’s why.

I’ve had the luck of cleaning computers from CoolWebSearch, and let me tell you these things are damn close to impossible to get rid of.
Good thing CWS is still rather “harmless” - now imagine a keylogger as stealthy and deeply stuck as CWS; using Windows then could cause your bank / paypal account / etc to become empty mysteriously…

I’ve been rather dependent to Regex Coach when I need to create a regular expression.
But sometimes, some things are just too time consuming to be created from scratch. At these times, RegExpLib.com just may save your bottom from getting kicked by your boss.

Rsync on Windows

Previously, you need to install cygwin and then rsync, if you need to run rsync client from Windows. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly easy to use.

Thankfully, now you can use Sync2NAS instead. What’s more, it’s also has been developed with backing up user’s data in mind. Finally, it is an easy task to be done.

Amazing - we have a CRM system similar to OpenCRX; but ours costed tens of thousands dollars, and it’s proprietary.

Of course, most of the time you’ll need to have it customized to your exact needs. In this case, you can get in touch with CRIXP. OpenCRX will be still free, while they provide you with the customization that you need.

Looks really sweet.
And talking about sweet, SugarCRM is another one that looks quite good as well.

Aaron said that making OpenOffice, Firefox, etc available on Windows is a mistake, because it helps people to stay on (using) Windows.

He missed one thing though - whether Joe Home User uses Windows or Linux is (in most cases) not his decision; it’s Dell/HP/Walmart/etc’s decision.

So, to gain the home user market, opensource community need to make Linux an offer that those company can’t refuse. We need to make them make Linux as their main OS in their computer - instead of Windows.

I think Linspire is doing a pretty good job in this regard. I hope others (Mandrake, RedHat, Ubuntu, etc) can follow their lead. Only then we’ll start seeing Linux making it to our homes.

In the meantime, do please keep making Firefox et al available for Windows users - let’s help enable them to use their own computer, without fear of problems due to sloppiness in Microsoft’s part.

Also I love seeing OpenOffice available on Windows - I can picture Ballmer screaming from the pain of losing the US$300+ per seat on Office license ho ho ho

Have a great holiday everyone !