Upgrade Joomla! 1.0.12 to 1.0.15

We are using Joomla! CMS as our official website, and as you know Joomla! and any other CMS always exposed to vulnerabilities. So, if you using using Joomla! make sure you're using the latest version. Just like us, our webmaster did not upgrade our Joomla! since version 1.0.12, so i'm take this responsibility to upgrade them. I'm using Joomla! so long starting from Mambo, or before that PHP Nuke as our official website. Upgrading Joomla! was so simple as easy as ABC. What you need is just unzip/gunzip the patch file into your live site folder. But before that, please BACKUP your site first. If anything wrong happened you can go back to your original file.

# tar xjf Joomla_1.0.12_to_1.0.15-Stable-Patch_Package.tar.bz2 /yourwebfolder/

(I'm using package type file .tar.bz2 ). Same like when your download package type file as .zip (unzip) or .tar.gz (tar xzf).
Lastly, please test your patched site as much as you can, it's important to make sure all of our module, component and other 3rd party add ons can function as well.

Finally i got my Debian again

In 2005, i put Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on my web server around 3 months to see how 'power' Debian it is. At that time, i'm waiting a new release for Slackware 10.2 and after that i'm shift back to Slackware. During three months using Debian as a production server, i have no big issue using them except once my web server got defaced. But this is not because the vulnerabilities from Debian itself but maybe misconfiguration of php.ini in Jooomla! CMS. Last week, i come again to Debian. The installation pretty straight forward, i know Etch have their GUI installer, but i'm prefer using their text based installer. I use DVD version that i got when i bought a linux magazine. The installation was complete using GNOME as a default window manager.

Yet Another New Blog Again

I don't know how many times i start a new blog, i think i can stay at one blog not more than 6 months, not more. i don't know why, maybe i got bore when i see a same blog (templates or theme or features) everyday. Before this, i'm blogging alot using Serendipity, Wordpress (cms or blog) Livejournal, Blogger etc. And for sure, i have very limited times for blogging. Currently, I have no more Streamyx or any internet access at my new house, so when i want to start blogging, office hour? even nak pegi minum pun tak sempat. But i will try this blog will available for a long times, Insyallah...