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From today, all public shared and reseller hosting from UnixGuru hosting is php 5.3.10 and uses MySQL 5.5.20.
Also upgrades to bind, dovecot, exim, and others continues to ensure that security and performance remain high.
WordPress has launched version 3.3, which at first look appears to be a good upgrade.
Good news is that the W3TC plug-in appears to work correctly with the new version of WordPress, so we are recommending customers to upgrade their WordPress Blogs as soon as possible, although it may be worth waiting if you have critical plug-ins that are untested.
blottr, the people powered news service have migrated their hosting to a UnixGuru Hosting Virtualised Dedicated Server, to resolve long time stability issues that they were suffering at peer1.
UnixGuru would like to thank blottr, for choosing us!
The ICO has implemented the new European Union Cookie Law on its own website and saw an almost instantaneous 90% reduction in people willing to accept a google analytics cookie.
Whilst that might not be disasterous for a government website, just think of the consequences that might have for a commercial website.
Original Article: Techcrunch
China has apparenty been installing spying devices into Hong Kong cars so that the authorities can spy on its citizens.
Article from Epoch Times.
You know the films where it seems the US government is listening to everthing, and we think, that’s not possible! is it??
Well it appears that it is and here is an article from the New Yorker, which exposes what’s been going on and a high level desciption of how it is done.