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CCK has been significantly reworked for Drupal 6, both to add new functionality and to provide stronger code and APIs. We've tried to respond to many of the things that were often requested but were difficult or impossible to do in the Drupal 5 version: streamline the process of creating fields, use drag-n-drop to reorganize fields and values, provide a user-friendly 'Add more' button for multiple values, give developers an API and more tools to customize CCK behavior, and provide more documentation.

Drupal 6.6 and 5.12 released, fixing security issues

More information can be found -> HERE

Drupal 6.6 and Drupal 5.12, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases.

Drupal 6.6 Release Note

New features for your site

* Multiple blocks, pages, and feeds per view.
* Built-in AJAX for pagers, exposed filters, and argument drill-down clicks. Great in blocks!
* RSS feeds for comments.
* Greater control over exposed filters, including being able to reduce a taxonomy list to just terms you select.
* Can have multiple "displays" on a view with the same path, which have different features -- give your administrators and privileged users richer views than others!

New features for themers

* All views output is done through templates, dramatically improving themability; the old views theming wizard is no longer required.
* Additional theming information to customize your views through templates is also provided in the user interface.

First of all, if you are using DirectAdmin in PHP-CGI (suPHP) mode, don't waste your time follow this HOW-TO. Although these steps work with PHP-CGI but you will get nothing from doing it. For PHP-CLI, I found that it help to decrease my server load from about 10 or more down to about 1 but always less than 2. (I have quad core CPU and my problem before is that CPU usage is almost always 100%.) It's useful module that you should have it installed.

Step 1 : Get XCache and uncompress it


shell> cd /tmp

Drupal 6.5 and 5.11 released, fixing security issues

More information can be found -> HERE

Drupal 6.5 and Drupal 5.11, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases.

My server was running great for about a month without reboot. Yesterday, I just thought about what many people said that if a server is running fine, don't try to restart it. If you do, there is a chance that a server won't start back up normally. No one explain why but then, I thought about it and for some reason, I wanted to try to restart it that night. I didn't think I will run into any problem but I was wrong.

I’m using Mail.com for many years. (At least 10 years.) I have used it since it's free service until they started to charge for money. That’s fine, I'm willing to pay for it just because I like an e-mail that I already have with them. I also like to have my mail at home. So, I pay them for POP/SMTP service.

Everything was great with their service until about 5 years ago, I realized that all of their web services are in plain text. (Webmail, POP, SMTP) It's pretty easy for anyone to monitoring the traffic and get my e-mail account. (That means, they can see your username, password and any e-mail content that you send to someone.)

At that time, I decided to ask them if they had any service that is more secure? For me, I prefer secure POP/SMTP. They replied me that they will look into it. A couple years later when it was the time to renew their service. (I paid them once in a couple years.) I e-mail them again to ask the same question. They said they are working on it. Well, I just let them have sometime to work on it. Until today, Mail.com still has no SSL/TLS or any kind of secure mail to protect their users that they collect money from. All of their services are in plain text. (POP/SMTP, Webmail) The only thing they do is to give us more e-mail storage. Oh… they do have AJAX capability which is in Beta stage for forever.

With today mail service like Gmail. Gmail already provides secure POP/SMTP for free for quite a while. I really don't understand what Mail.com are doing. They get my money only because my e-mail is the one that I really don't want to change it. If that's not a case, I'm pretty sure they won't get my money at all. This is the only paid mail service that I pay for many years but it's the one that is the most insecure service.

From my experience, Mail.com is very similar to Eudora. Eudora is a great e-mail program. I’ve used it for a long time and I really like it. Until now, I’m still using it. But the only problem I found many years ago is that it lacks of multi-languages capability. I remember that at that time, they had an upgraded version of Eudora and I’ve upgraded to a new one. Then, all of my other languages e-mail went unreadable. I e-mail them to ask and the answer I got was… if the older version worked, just went back to the older version. Well, That was what I think everybody knows. But… the reason I ask/told them was to let them know so that they can check what they did that made their multi-languages capability went bad. I would think, at that time, they really didn’t care customers that need to use multi-languages.

mysqlreport makes a friendly report of important MySQL status values. mysqlreport transforms the values from SHOW STATUS into an easy-to-read report that provides an in-depth understanding of how well MySQL is running. mysqlreport is a better alternative (and practically the only alternative) to manually interpreting SHOW STATUS.

When I was trying to use mysqlreport under CentOS 5.2 64 bit + DirectAdmin 1.3.2.3 Custom Build 1.1. I got error when run "./mysqlreport"

First of all, I'm not an Linux/DirectAdmin expert. I just played around with them and found the way to do it. I tried to install Cacti on my server but I couldn't find a complete instruction to do it. So, I just gathered all information I found into one place so that it is easier for many others. I hope it can help someone that needs the same thing that I did.

The software I use:

- CentOS 5.2 - 64-bit
- DirectAdmin 1.323 - Custombuild 1.1.13
     - PHP 5 - CGI
     - Apache 2.2
     - MySQL 5
- Cacti 0.8.7b

Package Required by Cacti :

* RRDTool 1.0.49 or 1.2.x or greater
* MySQL 3.23 or greater, 4.0.20d or greater highly recommended for advanced features
* PHP 4.1 or greater, 4.3.6 or greater highly recommended for advanced features

Apache, PHP and MySQL are already installed by DirectAdmin. However, there are 2 required packages which are net-smtp and RRDTool that I need to install.

I got a Dell Perc6/i Integrated RAID card a few days ago. By using it with CentOS 5.2 64 bits without GUI, I'm looking the way to monitor RAID status. I then, found that I can use MegaCLI from LSI to do the task. (Dell Perc6/i uses LSI Chip)

First, get MegaCLI from LSI website -> MegaCLI 2.00.11 for Linux