Ok maybe the term ‘hardening’ is not exactly right since it is usually done on a more complex system. Nevertheless, after the incident where my blog is hacked by unknown attacker or two, I become a little bit paranoid. Thanks to Holy Shmoly, there is somewhat a definite guide on how to ‘harden’ your wordpress site.

The latter part of the article is a bit… technical but try to do at least the ‘Secret code’ part and ‘upgrade’ (preferably clean upgrade) and change ‘password’. I believe those three steps are sufficient for most of you.

Nevertheless, fell free to do all the steps mentioned (including installing IDS). I believe it will be an enriching experience.

In any case, random secret key generator can be found here.

Admit it, many of your believe that competition is getting stiffer and fiercer in SMU. With increasingly bigger cohort and compulsory ‘C or below’ policy, I am sure people would like to get as much advantage as they could - including you. The same applies to presentation realm where students are constantly challanged to deliver top-notch entertaiment with stunning visual ‘omph’ thanks to the increasing proliferation rate of MAC among SMU students over the past few years. Fret not, here is some freebies to raise the bar for your presentation.

Lifehacker (one of the website) has seen from Macworld (another website) about free keynote objects that can be used to spice up your presentation. The freebies is given by iPresentee (second another website - wow… see how complicated the relations between websites nowaday).

The package combines 100 easy to use and attractive objects and  the background of all objects is transparent and can be used on any colored background. Each object can be tampered in any way possible. And yes, it is compatible with Keynote, iWeb, Pages, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.

Keynote Objects [iPresentee via Lifehacker via Macworld]