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Many blogger was wonder on how to block the IPs from a country as they might suffer from unwanted attack such as compromised from their site.

Mick Genie will suggest you a site to automatically generate the script from a country IPs.
http://www.blockacountry.com/

Before you look into the given URL, please understand that you shall have mod_rewrite enabled from your server either in Windows IIS, Apache or Linux Apache. It is because the given script is running with .htaccess file, you simply edit your .htaccess file from your site to have this rules applied.

Please use the site with your own risk and use as references only as Mick Genie do not have any share with that website .

I have not blog for a month . It was a very busy month for January(lazy for me, actually).

Today, got to share something with our friend again which known as IIS 7.0.Administration Pack and I will highlight the FastCGI Setting for IIS 7.0.

Normally, when you install PHP FastCGI with IIS 7.0, you will not have the UI(User Interface) setting from your IIS 7.0, but you may install IIS 7.0 Administration Pack to allow you IIS to show the setting from IIS.

Refer to the URL as below and choose the Administration pack which suite to your system.
http://www.iis.net/expand/AdministrationPack

Install it, and you are done.

Look to your IIS and select on the machine name, you shall get the FastCGI setting overthere.

This article is applicable for WordPress user who used IIS7.x as their web services and not able to work correctly with the permalink.

1. Log into your WordPress. Select on Setting and click on Permalink Settings.

2. Select any of the Common Setting or Custom Structure.
3. Click Update Permalink Structure button.
4. Now, you will see your blog get 404 error when click on any post or pages. No worry, refer to the following step to get this fix.
5. Log into your DotNetPanel file manager or FTP, modify the web.config file from your root folder (probably wwwroot folder) and add the following code to the web.config file.

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URL Rewrite help web administrator to create powerful rules to ease user to remember their link. IIS do come out a powerful URL Rewrite module such as Apache Rewrite rules to allow user create Rewrite rules/Permalink/Clean URL to show pretty and easy URL for their site.

Today, I will show you how to install URL Rewrite with IIS 7.x only but not going to touch how it’s work.

To install URL Rewrite Module, please make sure you have IIS 7.x install and you should come with IIS 6 compatible module installed.

Download Here: http://www.iis.net/expand/URLRewrite

The installation will be as easier like drinking a cup of water as you will need to follow the instruction from the installation only, hohoho.

IIS(Microsoft) have give web hosting user a big help as they have come out a new application named SiteShell. SiteShell help to protect Microsoft Windows server to reduce the attackeds from exploiting the weakness and vulnerabilities of a websites.

SiteShell is a Software WAF (Web Application Firewall) which effectively protects the website and its data from attacks exploiting the weakness and vulnerabilities of websites (e.g. SQL injection or cross site scripting). SiteShell offers various special features including “online blacklist update” and “intuitive user interface”.

Below is the feature listed by IIS dot Net for SiteShell.

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When you used Linux top process to monitor your server/PC, you might want to know what meant by the Cpu(s) variable used in percentage.

Eg.

top – 16:24:04 up 80 days, 18:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.48, 0.46, 0.44
Tasks: 226 total,   2 running, 222 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.2%us,  2.5%sy,  0.4%ni, 92.0%id,  3.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st

1. us -> User CPU time: The time the CPU has spent running users’ processes that are not niced.
2. sy -> System CPU time: The time the CPU has spent running the kernel and its processes.
3. ni -> Nice CPU time: The time the CPU has spent running users’ proccess that have been niced.
4. wa -> iowait: Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete.
5. hi -> Hardware IRQ: The amount of time the CPU has been servicing hardware interrupts.
6. si -> Software Interrupts.: The amount of time the CPU has been servicing software interrupts.

Original Source: http://www.seoforclients.com/hr/top/

Microsoft New Launch Product -> Microsoft Office 2010.

To be more precise, M$ has made available for the Beta version of Office for public and they most important of this Betas are,

• Expiration: Office 2010 beta will expire on October 31st, 2010. It will become non-functional at this point
• Multiple Versions: Previous Office versions can be upgraded to Office 2010. It is also possible to select customize during installation to install Office 2010 in a separate location.
• Hardware Requirements: Microsoft Office 2010 has the same hardware requirements as Office 2007 (Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 500 Mhz or higher, 256 Megabytes of computer memory or higher, hard disk 1.5 Gigabyte
• Languages: English, Chinese Simplified, German, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish

Microsoft is offering two Office 2010 editions for download: Microsoft Office Professional 2010 and Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010. The main difference between those two versions is the number of applications that are made available to the user:

• Office Home and Business 2010 beta – Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Office Web Apps
• Office Professional 2010 beta – Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher and Office Web Apps

Original URL:
http://us1.office2010beta.microsoft.com/default.aspx?culture=en-US

WordPress 2.9 was just release for less than a week, but there were lots of bug being found.

The major bug were the PHP cURL extension problem found from WordPress 2.9 and WordPress have released WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1 version.

To install the 2.9.1 Beta version, you may apply WordPress Beta Tester or manually install it with download the Beta 1 package.

According to WordPress, fourteen tickets have been fixed.

Referral URL: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-beta-1/

Today, I will share how a bad guy(hacker) try to scan your WordPress version however I am not going to share how to do this.

With WordPress 2.8.x or earlier, WordPress version status were stored in a file named version.php in the wp-includes folder, some plugin such as WP Security Scan will try to hide the WordPress version number from scanning.

In order to get your WordPress version, you may do like the following command to grep the WordPress version.

mickgenie@mickgenie.com [~]# grep wp_version wp-includes/version.php
* @global string $wp_version
$wp_version = ‘2.8.6′;