Bruce Schneier, the computer security equivalent of Chuck Norris, has some excellent points to make about anti-virus software.  Executive summary: anti-virus is not enough to keep you safe online (you still have to be careful), but it's free (if you use AVG or Avast's free version) and easy, and protects against a lot of bad stuff, so you have no excus...

I have a very small, simple WordPress installation with virtually no customisations, which is automatically backed up nightly (both files & mysql DB).  This is what i do to get it upgraded.  It's mostly here for my reference, but i figured others might find it helpful.

I discovered a workaround for the bug in Amarok that was preventing me from adopting it as my primary music player.  Full details are in the bug, executive summary follows:

• I disallow outgoing connections from all PCs on my home LAN as a security measure to guard against spyware and spam bots.
• Amarok uses two different proxy settings - one for streaming data and one for submitting last.fm track info.  The former is configured in Amarok and the latter in the KDE control panel (kcontrol).
• When no proxy is defined for track sumission, my firewall denies the outbound connection from Amarok, and it hangs (this is the real bug)....
  

I just ran into Bug #122976 when installing a new system on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).  It occurred when trying to install an OpenOffice.org upgrade, but appears to really be related to ttf-opensymbol.  There's a simple workaround which i noted in the bug log.

One of the things i disliked about the Firefox 2.0 upgrade was the way it handled tabs.  For someone like me who routinely has 8-30 tabs per window, and 4-6 windows open at once, the Firefox 1.x method of having a single close button for all tabs in a fixed location means that closing multiple tabs in quick succession is much more efficient.  (More discussion can be found in this thread at the Mozilla forums site.) It turns out the behaviour is not gone completely, just not enabled by default and not visible in the preferences dialog.  To restore the Firefox 1.x method:...