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Personalized Search in Froogle

 has been integrating all services with Personalized Search. As of today, there are 4 services support this functionality such as , , , and recently . Let me guess what the next service is.  and then .

Access Grid Toolkit 3.0 beta 1

The Access Grid Team at Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago has just announced the next step of Access Grid on January 28, 2006. In other word, Access Grid Toolkit 3.0 beta 1 is available for testing now.

Firefox 1.5.0.1 Automatic Updated

After started Firefox for 5 minutes, I got a notification for the latest version update Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 Release Notes. Great! I don’t see any officially announcement to this version yet. Firefox is now the most up-to-date software in my laptop. It can beat update speed of anti-virus software.

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Post2Blog 1.12 RC5

Wow! You must see how good Post2Blog can bring to me. The reported bug was fixed in 2 days!!! Today, Post2Blog 1.12 RC5 is available with minor bugs fixed to handle https URL correctly.

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Ban IP that makes too many password failures using Fail2Ban

Today I have just found that my colleague’s server was hacked by someone to run IRC bot. Cool! This server didn’t run any services except only SSH. It is very secure. Anyway, after investigating /var/log/secure, I found out lots of login failed attempts from unknown sources. Eventually, the last attempt was successful and he/she changed root password to something I didn’t know. Fortunately, single user mode helped me to recover the machine back to my control again.

ip2cc supports displaying flag in node's link area

According to the flag in comment’s link area, now ip2cc is able to display flag in node’s link area also. These 2 features was suggested by Larry. The use of these capabilities, pointed out by Larry, is to verify the location of the visitor in E-Commerce sites.

What to see a demonstration? See below. You should see I am currently in Thailand.