MSN kept dropping for staff across the LAN.
Took ages to figure it out, but here it is for future reference and for blog readers:
Click Start, RUN , in the run box type in:
regsvr32 MSXML3.dll
Click OK , then a box pops up, ok that box.
Restart msn messenger
As you probably have guessed by now we still have not upgraded from Windows XP to VISTA.
I got a few staff to try it out for over a week, the problems of hardware and VISTA being such a serious waste of memory and a lot of business software we use dont work with it and so on, it just wasnt worth it. Microsoft have forgotten that business people just dont care if something looks pretty, all a business person or staff for that matter care about it they want the software and computer to do the job and quickly. Vista even with 2gb ram and Intel XEON ….its just wasnt worth it.
It will be interesting to see sometime in 2009 , when Vienna comes out and then we more than likely will wait for everyone else to find the bugs before we look at it again.
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Just to be on the safe side, I decided to see if I could lock down our Wordpress installation.
I cannot claim credit for the way to go about locking it down. I actually got this info from several websites.
Here what you need to do to make Wordpress more secure and ensure that only your IP address can login to the Admin page.
(1) Have a look at the attached template. Open it up notepad and add in your entries (subsitute the 111.222.333.444 with your WAN IP address)
www.mediafire.com/?b3amyjniwkj
All you need to do then is drop that file (ensure its called htaccess) with no extension into the WP-Admin folder.
If your IP address changes and you get locked out, do not worry, just FTP into the WP-Admin folder and change the whitelist to the new IP.
Protocol Solutions blog entry about the Deamweaver flash issue has been added as a reference at www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/758769
Recently I updated three computers. The reason they were updated was because the Macromedia Flash player version of these computers was 9.0.28.0
The new flash player version installed is now 9.0.115.0
Now, one computer has Macromedia Dreamweaver installed. It is with interest that I noticed that installing the flash player update will only update the player (usually C:/WINDOWS/system32/Macromed/Flash)
Now Dreamweaver has the flash player located here c:/Program Files/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Configuration/Plugins/NPSWF32.dll
Since the update did not patch this to the latest version I had to go about it manually. However it is not too hard. Obviously this only needs to be done if you have Dreamweaver installed.
How to do it is below :
(1) Download the latest version of flash player and install it
(2) Do a search for NPSWF32.dll and then check the version, it should say 9.0.115.0.
(3) Go to the plugin directory of Macromedia Dreamweaver (C:/Program Files/Macromedia Dreamweaver 8/Configuration/Plugins)
(4) Rename the NPSWF32.dll in the macromedia plugin folder to something like NPSWF32.OLD
(5)Copy the NPSWF32.dll file from C:/WINDOWS/system32/Macromed/Flash/ into the Dreamweaver plugin directory
Thats it, you just patched Dreamweaver 8.0.2 and updated the associated Flash player plugin.
The old file you just renamed (NPSWF32.old) can now be deleted safely
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