Parents often ask which of the many car seats is the best car seat on the market. The truth is, the best car seat is the one that fits your vehicle, your budget, your baby and that you will use properly each time your baby rides in the car.
There are several criteria to help you decide your car seat for your lovely babies and toddlers.
Safety first
Some car seats may have extra features that make them easier to install correctly, such as built-in locking clips or non-twisting straps. Because proper installation is key in car seat safety, these installation helpers may add safety for some people.
Car seats must fit the baby
Use your baby’s height, weight and age to choose the type of car seat to use. Rear-facing-only infant car seats are used through about 20 lbs. Convertible car seats are used rear-facing until baby is at least 1 year old and weighs at least 20 lbs., and forward-facing through the weight limit listed on the car seat. Height-wise, baby’s head should be one inch or more below the top of the car seat when rear-facing. For front-facing seats, the tops of baby’s ears should be below the seat top.
Easy installation
Check the car seat manual to be sure you can install and use the car seat as it is intended. Can you adjust the harness to secure baby in the car seat? Choose a car seat that you will use according to the instructions.
Are Used Car Seats Safe?
Steer clear of used car seats if you cannot get an accurate history of the car seat’s use. You must know a car seat’s crash history to determine safety. Car crashes can cause hidden damage to car seats, and the car seat could fail in a second crash, putting your child at risk of injury.
If you aren’t careful, you could end up needing to buy an infant only seat, a convertible car seat, and a booster seat as your child passes the weight or height limits of the car seats that you buy.
For older kids, choose a car seat with high weight and height limits that is easy to use and will last your child as long as possible. Remember the states that “no one seat is the “best” or the “safest,” so choose a seat that fits in your car, meets your child’s height and weight requirements and is easy to install.
If you are a Joomla user, please upgrade your web immediately. From Joomla Official website: This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
Joomla! Developer Vulnerability News
[20090722] – Core – Missing JEXEC Check
Posted: 22 Jul 2009 04:36 PM PDT
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: Framework
- Severity: Moderate
- Versions: 1.5.12 and all previous 1.5 releases
- Exploit type: XSS
- Reported Date: 2009-July-21
- Fixed Date: 2009-July-22
Description
Some files were missing the check for JEXEC. These scripts will then expose internal path information of the host.
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.12 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.13 or newer).
Reported by Juan Galiana Lara (Internet Security Auditors)
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
[20090722] – Core – File Upload
Posted: 22 Jul 2009 04:17 PM PDT
- Project: Joomla!
- SubProject: TinyMCE editor
- Severity: Critical
- Versions: 1.5.12
- Exploit type: Image File upload
- Reported Date: 2009-July-22
- Fixed Date: 2009-July-22
Description
Tiny browser included with TinyMCE 3.0 editor allowed files to be uploaded and removed without logging in.
Affected Installs
Version 1.5.12 only
Solution
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.13 or newer).
Reported by Patrice Lazareff.
Contact
The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.
Download here
Click here to download Joomla 1.5.13 (Full package)
Click here to find an update package
Tags: CMS, Joomla, Security, Update, Vulnerability
Life is mysterious. You won’t know what will happen. Is it a good thing…, or is it a bad thing? I’m sure, no one knows. If the thing is good, so you can enjoy your life. But, if the thing goes bad… you won’t enjoy your life, will you?
So, the worst case scenario is you get the bad things. There are so many bad things around us. It can happen to your parents, grandparents, people you love, and even to you! Maybe your grandpa falls while he is gardening or your grandma shows no activity, and coincidentally you are not at home. Another case is there is a thief who tries to break your house when you fall asleep. It’s such a big problem isn’t it? Does it sound real? Yes it does.
You need to be alerted when the things goes wrong. I’m sure you realize that. And I’m sure that you are wondering how you get alerted if your lovely mom falls in your living room and you aren’t there? She can’t make a phone call. If she can, are you sure she knows or remembers who will be called? Does she know or remember the phone number? And the worst thing is how if she can’t even push the button. Imagine you go home with your lovely wife, a 5 year old handsome boy, and a 3 year beautiful girl, open the door, go to the living room, hold on a gift to your mother, because this day is her birthday, and all of you say “SURPRISE!!!” all together… then you are really suprise to find your mom on the floor. The answer for all this scenario is life alert. Yes, it is the solution you need. Fortunately, there’s a new product, BrickHouse Alert, that will alert you if something goes wrong. Sounds good right?
How BrickHouse Alert will help you to have life alert?
Fall detection
If someone falls, and somehow can’t make a phone call or even press the button, the fall detector plays its role. It automatically senses the fall and then calls the 24-Hour Monitoring Center. The trained Emergency Response operator will help you immediately.
Alarm
When you fall asleep, BrickHouse alert doesn’t. It has Intruder Alarm, that will automatically alert the 24-Hour Monitoring Center if movement is detected. It helps you to protect your house from thieves.
Alert you if there’s no activity
No activity Alert is another feature that calls the 24-Hour Monitoring Center if you are not in your daily activity, for example, it’s a 8am and you are still in your bed.
Personal reminders
If you have an old man in your family and he need to take pills every day, you can count on BrickHouse trained operators that remind him what to do and make sure everything is OK.
Panic button
Pressing the panic button will immediately contacts the 24-Hour Monitoring Center. You will get help as soon as possible.
A human being can’t change the bad thing into the good one. But the important thing is how we prevent the bad things getting worse. With life alert we are ready to face the worst case scenario in our life.
Tags: Alert, Fall Detection, Life Alert
From the Joomla Security newsletter, I know that there’s a new version of Joomla. But, my email provider sent it to spam folder. I just don’t know why.. huff.. :(
From the official Joomla website:
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. It has been less than a month since Joomla 1.5.11 was released on June 3, 2009.
This release marks an important milestone for the Joomla Project due to the upgrade of the PEAR library to the new BSD licensed version, which brings the codebase into full compliance with the GPL. In addition, this release contains an important upgrade to TinyMCE v 3.2.4.1.
The Production Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Download Joomla 1.5.12 (Full package)
Download Joomla 1.5.11 > 1.5.12 update package
All 1.5.12 Packages
Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.
Got that message? And you can’t view your blog neither login to admin area? And now you wish you didn’t click automatic upgrade link? No need to worry, we will fix it.
Before we fix it, we shoud know what is going on? WordPress, like other systems, is not perfect. Eventough it has automatic upgrade, it doesn’t mean your wordpress installation will always successfully upgraded using automatic upgrade. That’s why we should back up our blog before upgrading it. So, why that message appear? Does it mean our installation failed? Maybe. WordPress creates a file named .maintenance before upgrading process. Just in case there are visitors accessing your blog during upgrading process, they will see “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” message instead of your under-upgrading blog. Somehow, I don’t know exactly why, the file .maintenance is not deleted by WordPress. If this thing happens, you will see maintenance message.
So, how to fix it? It’s a piece of cake. Login to your web host using CPanel or SSH, remove the .maintenance file. You can find that file in your WordPress installation directory (the directory that has wp-admin directory – not inside wp-admin directory). After you do it, refresh your blog. We hope your blog will be back… :)
Question: I can’t see .maintenance file
Answer: Yes, it’s a hidden file. If you are using SSH try ls -a command. If you use CPanel, don’t forget to check show hidden files while opening your installation directory using file manager.
Tags: Error, Maintenance, Upgrade, WordPress
After releasing Beta and RC, now wordpress.org releases a stable version. They claimed version 2.8 is way faster to use. They change the way WordPress style and scripting. Is that right? Umm I don’t know what software is used to benchmark it.
In previous version, wordpress 2.7, we can install/upgrade plugin automatically with one-click. In version 2.8, they do to the themes too. Now we can search themes, based on color, number of columns, features, width and subject. No need to access web hosting and copy your themes there. It sucks. If you have a .zip file, then you can install it just like you install plugin.
Install WordPress Themes
Another feature is CodePress. CodePress is a new code editor for WordPress. Now we can see syntax highlighting in WordPress, not only a black and white editor. It makes coding more fun.
CodePress
For those who confuse to arrange widgets, now you can smile. You can move your widget among your sidebars easily. You can also have copy of your widget.
WordPress Widget
The last but not the least, a new feature in version 2.7, Screen Options, can be found in dashboard only. In version 2.8, you can find it in every page. There is column setting too. It makes you page more personal.
There are a lot more features in WordPress 2.8. I can’t tell them one-by-one. The full features can be found at http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8.
To make your day perfect, here it is the video overview of WordPress 2.8:
Tags: Blog, new feature, Release, screen options, widget, widgets, WordPress
There are so many ways to extract zip or tar.gz or tar.bz2. You can use GUI or command line. In this tutorial, I would like to show you how to extract compressed files using command line.
Extract zip file:
unzip file_name.zip
Extract tar.gz file:
tar -xzf file_name.tar.gz
or
tar -xvzf file_name.tar.gz
Extract tar.bz2 file:
tar -xjf file_name.tar.bz2
or
tar -xvjf file_name.tar.bz2
Notice in tar command, there is -v parameter. It tells the application to show the extracted files (verbose).
Those are the standard way to extract. If you need more functionality, just use man command.
man unzip
man tar
Typing is like writing. Looks like an easy work, but it’s very difficult and annoying if you don’t know the secret. Whoever you are, you need to type fast and accurate while using computer. I have some tips to be a typing master.
- Use all of your fingers.
- You need to know where to place your finger.
- Never see the keyboard while typing. Just remember what finger will type it.
- More practices.
My first tip, use all of your fingers. Yes, you must use them. Don’t use “11 fingers” (your left and right index fingers) to type. You have ten fingers. Use them all. How? You will figure it out in my second tip.
The second tip, you need to know where to place your finger. This picture below shows where your finger should be placed.
Finger and Keyboard (click to zoom)
If you can’t see the picture, Here are the keys should be pressed by your finger.
Left Hand
Index finger = 4 R F V 5 T G B
Middle finger = 3 E D C
Ring finger = 2 W S X
Little finger = 1 Q A Z ` Tab “Caps Lock” “Left Shift” “Left Ctrl”
Right Hand
Index finger = 6 Y H N 7 U J M
Middle finger = 8 I K ,
Ring finger = 9 O L .
Little finger = – [ ] ‘ / \ = Backspace Enter “Right Shift” “Right Ctrl”
Before start typing, place your fingers in the right place. Notice button F and J in your keyboard. There’s a kern below the letter. That’s the place where your index finger should be. Put your left index finger in F, and your right index finger in J. The rest of your fingers should be:
Left middle finger = D and the right middle finger = K
Left ring finger = S and the right ring finger = L
Left little finger = A and the right little finger = ;
Ctrl – Alt – Shift
To combine keys ctrl, alt or shift with another key, you should notice where’s the key, in the left hand side, or right hand side. For example, to combine Ctrl + L, you should know where’s the position of the L key. From the picture above, we know that L is in the right side. So you must press left Ctrl using your left little finger and press L using right ring finger. Easy right?
The third tip, maybe its a bit hard to do for the beginner. Don’t see your keyboard while typing. How come? You only need discipline. For the first time, you will type slowly. It’s OK. The baby crawl on hands and knees before he/she can stand, walk and run. If you remember where’s the key, it will be so easy to type fast.
My last tip but not the least, more practices. Of course, we know that practice makes perfect. Not only typing, the other skill such as programming, need more and more practices.
Tags: Keyboard, Typing Tutor
After releasing stable version (WordPress 2.7.1), WordPress.org releases new beta version, 2.8 Beta 1. This release is not stable and use for testing only. It’s not recommended to use in anyplace where your data is important. You need to backup your database before upgrading to this version.
If you want to participate, you may join tester list or if you are PHP programmer, you may report bugs you find while testing this beta release.
Tags: Wordpress Beta
Why do we send message over linux console? We can send message using our favorite messenger. That’s right. But, imagine if you are working in a linux machine using a console and want to talk to another user without moving from your console. To do this, you can use a command named write.
Ummm… how if I want to know who’s accessing a linux machine? You can use command who. Ok how to use write command? It’s easy.
write user [ttyname]
Example:
$write dani Hi.. how u doin? You need to sign the contract.
You can write your message in the new line. If you want to stop it, you may use Ctrl+C.
What will appear in user dani?
Message from gunawan@linuxmachine on pts/3 at 09:16 ... Hi.. how u doin? You need to sign the contract. EOF
notice that at the end of message you will see EOF.
Tags: Command Line, Console, Message
