Titan Fusion

While looking for plugins for Jutia Group I stumbled upon Latest Posts v1.0. It is on the left side, under "10 Newest Entries".
I needed some more functionality out of it so I took the liberty to modify the code a bit. Just to make it a tad more flexible.
I started by changing the function call for inside the template. I changed it from:

to

What this does is, before the function is called its existence will be verified. This will prevent your theme from braking and your pages loading halfway and then displaying errors when the function is called:

if you disable the plugin (now you can turn on and off the plugin without the visitors getting page errors)
the plugin file is moved, corrupted or deleted

In other words, if something happens to the plugin and you are unaware of the problem, your site will not brake. This of course is bad, but it will not have a negative effect on your site.
My next change was to make the number of posts being displayed flexible. With other plugins and the …

Tonight, while reconfiguring my network, I had to log into my Linksys RTP 300 router. If you remember, a while back I wrote about a security flaw I found in the log in script of that router. You can read my post here. Well, tonight while logging in I mistyped the last character of the router's password, which of course is still a digit. Guess what folks, I was able to log in without any problems.
Last year, when I wrote my post, the firmware version was 1.00.55. The current firmware version is 1.00.62. Before I wrote my first post about this, I had contacted Linksys and informed them of the problem. The email I received from them pretty much told me: thanks for the info. we will look into it. Well, in a couple of months it will be one year since I told them and the security flaw has not been fixed. Apparently Linksys, a company owned by one of the biggest network hardware manufacturer (Cisco), priding itself on security, does NOT think that simple password security flaw is importan…

Once again it has been a long while since I have had a posted. In the lapsed time I have gone through two jobs, started a project with my brother, called Jutia Group, as well as started working on few of mine. I have also demitted from the Grand Lodge of New York and I have become a brother in Illinois.

I hope to have enough free time to write on all of this in the upcoming days.