takizo, not takezo

This morning we got a memo or enlighten announcement from Marketing & Communications; Which is one of the good news for AIMS Data Centre, below is the quote from the memo;

Kuala Lumpur, 18 June 2008 - Four of South East Asia’s leading data centres namely Malaysia’s The AIMS Asia Group, Singapore’s 1-Net Singapore, Vietnam’s CMC Telecom and Thailand’s TCC Technology (TCCT) announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a Data Centre Alliance to meet acute data centre requirements in the region. Together, the data centres within the Alliance will form a one-stop Hub that provides a full suite of services and connectivity.

With a combined space of more than 500,000 square feet and a projected annual turnover of approximately RM240 million by 2009, the Alliance will become one of the biggest data centre operators in the region catered for first-tier telcos, government agencies, banks and other businesses.

After Unity Consortium, this is another great move for our Data Centre to go further in international Data Centre business. Looking forward for more good news this year.

MOU Signing Ceremony

Within 48 hours from now, BlogRush is going to make some major changes on their system; some important one included;

100% MANUAL BLOG REVIEW

Our team is going to be manually reviewing every single new blog that
registers to participate in the BlogRush Network.

We’ll be applying some quality guidelines and criteria to our
decision-making process. (We’ll be publishing these guidelines very
soon.) If a blog does not meet our guidelines and criteria, THEY
WILL BE REJECTED from the network and not allowed to join — i.e.
they won’t be able to serve our widget, refer other users, or have
their blog posts distributed across our network. They will have no
access to any BlogRush services.

MORE CATEGORIES

We’re going to be greatly expanding our directory of categories to
increase the relevancy of post links appearing in the widget on your
blog — this will also increase click-rates (and traffic) for all
members.

IMPROVED REPORTING

SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL LOW-TRAFFIC MEMBERS: In the near future we’ll be
giving our low-traffic members (those that need more traffic the
most) the BULK of our bonus credit allocations. You’ll get a ton
more bonus credits than high-traffic members because you really need
it. It’s only FAIR!

IMPROVED NETWORK DISTRIBUTION

A few of our users have noticed that they’re building up credits
faster than the system is using them. This will eventually balance
itself out as the network continues to “adjust” to the growth levels
and traffic patterns of each category

BLOG POST CONTROLS

For example, you can add a keyword or phrase and create a new post
filter. If you ever create a post on your blog (while you have that
filter active — and you can add/delete them at anytime) that
contains one of those keywords in the TITLE of your blog post, that
post…

WILL *NOT* BE SHOWN ACROSS THE NETWORK. And you won’t use any of
your syndication credits!

Good work BlogRush team members, I am waiting you guys to come back Live! again with those major improvements.

HITBSecConf2007 is over; A lot of cool stuff happening this year which can find out at HITBSecConf2007’s website. Capture The Flag write up by spoonfork can read it at security.org.my. Buy a copy of The Star today and it’s Sao Vang team from vnsecurity.net on the cover page.

Met a lot people this year and looking forward for next year HITBSecConf08. Last but not least… Here is the newest sticker on my laptop;

I thought new case replacement will solve my white color MacBook Discoloration problem. But it doesn’t! How sad it’s, and how many time I have to send my machine back to service center and replace with new casing again and again and again. Regret of buying White color, I should buy Black if I know the discoloration issue is not solve by Apple at time being. Now, the worst come to me is the bottom of the case started to turn into yellowish….

Apple Defects: Some MacBooks Still Staining After Case Replacement

Wordpress SVN was hacked, if you upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.1 for the past few days, please upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately, hackers/crackers might gained access to your blog/server by now.

Message from Photo Matt

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.