According to The Register the conficker worm will have a signature that admins will be able to use to find which machines might have the worm. Up til now the only way was to monitor traffic and with Conficker C that was impossible as it didn’t send any traffic on the network but was waiting for instructions on a certain day.
Ubuntu 9.04 beta available
The beta includes the new Gnome 2.26 desktop and a new CD burning suite called brasero. Improvements made to boot performance, uses the 2.6.28 kernel, as well as turn key mail servers. Other visual improvements have been made as well as X.org 1.6 is included.
IE 8 users downgrading to IE 7
According to InfoWorld IE 8 users aren’t for very long.
As of 8:00 am Monday, IE8 — released Thursday — held 1.86% of the browser market, down from a high of 2.59% on Sunday, according to market watcher Net Applications. The most likely reason for the decline is that early adopters of IE8 are switching back to the more familiar, and –at this point — reliable Explorer 7 browser.
I was never even able to download IE 8 when I tried Thursday, server timeouts, I guess it’s all as well, because I’d probably be in that .73% downgrading. I’ve actually tried IE 8 on Windows 7 beta and I wasn’t all that impressed, just looked like IE with a couple of new buttons. The whole web slice thing drove me crazy too. Every time you would highlight the little button would pop up and be overall annoying.
Optimize your WordPress theme for Search Engines – Part 3
This is the 3rd and final post about SEO for your WordPress theme. Meta keywords used to be what all search results where based on but over time webmaster began abusing this to gain rank, today some say that they are ignored all together when calculating search results but if they’re not then having your posts tags and categories added couldn’t hurt. This is the code goes between the <head> </head> tags. This also includes the meta description code from yesterday’s post.
[php]<?php if (is_single() || is_page() ) : if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php $excerpt = strip_tags(get_the_excerpt());
echo $excerpt; if ( $cpage < 1 ) {}
else { echo (‘ – comment page ‘); echo ($cpage);} ?>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="
<?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { echo $category->cat_name . ‘,’; }
$posttags = get_the_tags();if ($posttags) {foreach($posttags as $tag) {echo $tag->name . ‘,’; } } ?>" />
<?php endwhile; endif; elseif(is_home()) : ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>" />
<?php endif; ?>[/php]
Line 5 thru 7 are the ones that deal with the keywords.
[php firstline=”5″]
<meta name="keywords" content="
<?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { echo $category->cat_name . ‘,’; }
$posttags = get_the_tags();if ($posttags) {foreach($posttags as $tag) {echo $tag->name . ‘,’; } } ?>" />
[/php]
This code depends on the loop code on line 1 to be able to pull the posts category and tags. This code basically pulls each category out and prints it out follow by a comma and then does the same with the tags. The comma is important because that is what separates the keywords. Even if this has marginal benefit it’s not that hard to implement and the cost as far as page load time should be minimal.
You see the whole series here. Be sure and rate each post, thanks.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Released
IE 8 is set to be released today, it can be downloaded from here. Here are some of the new features of IE 8.
- Smart Address Bar.
- Tab Groups.
- Redesigned “New Tab†Page.
- Reopen Last Browsing Session.
- Enhanced Find On Page.
