Archive for February, 2009
Gmail outage explained
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on February 25th, 2009
Gmail was out for a little while shortly after 9:30GMT on the 24th of February. The Gmail group has posted an official note stating the problem.
“Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center in Europe to become overloaded, and that [...]
Lilac Platform error print_window_header()
Posted by ITechLog in Open Source on February 20th, 2009
The Lilac Platform is a collection of tools to enhance existing open
source monitoring applications. Currently the focus is on the Lilac
Configurator, a configuration tool written to configure Nagios, a
popular Network monitoring application.
After installing it on an OpenSuse 11.0 I got the following error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function print_window_header() in /srv/www/htdocs/html/lilac/index.php on line 32
The [...]
SugarCRM Installation error: session.save_path not set
Posted by ITechLog in Open Source on February 18th, 2009
SugarCRM Community Edition 5.2.0a has shown me the following error during installation. “The session.save_path setting in your php configuration file (php.ini)
is not set or is set to a folder which did not exist. You might need to
set the save_path setting in php.ini or verify that the folder sets in
save_path exist.”
Before you attempt to follow [...]
Important SQL and Exchange Server patches
A security issue has been identified in the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (WMSDE) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it (Bulletin MS09-004), and Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution (Bulletin MS09-003).
The vulnerability in the MS Exchange Server is the most severe, [...]
Google Latitude
Posted by ITechLog in Mobile Phones on February 5th, 2009
Google Latitude is a new function added to Google Earth for mobile phones. Latitude service uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user’s location automatically. Users can choose to share their location with friends.
Latitude is based on Google’s My Location feature that has been in place since 2008. It [...]
