1. If all the nations in the world are in debt (I am not joking. Even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (Weird).
2. When dog food is new with improved tasting, who tests it? (to be given a thought).
3. What is the speed of darkness? (Absurd).
4. If the “black box” flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? (very good thinking).
5. Who copyrighted the copyright symbol? (who knows).
6. Can you cry under water? (let me try).
7. Why do people say, “you’ve been working like a dog” when dogs just sit around all day? (I think they meant something else).
8. Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed? (God knows.)
9. Do fish ever get thirsty? (let me ask and tell).
10. Can you get cornered in a round room? (by ones eyes).
11. What does OK actually mean?.
12. Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep? (tonight I will stay and watch).
13. What came first, the fruit or the color orange? (seed).
14. What should one call a male ladybird? (No comments).
15. If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot? (can somebody help).
16. Can you blow a balloon up under water? (yes you can).
17. Why is it called a “building” when it is already built? (strange isn’t it).
18. If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (got to think scientifically) .
19. If you’re traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (I didn’t had a chance to try).
20. Why is it called a TV set when theres only one? (very nice).
21. If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? (this is nice?).
22. Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can’t go that fast on any road? (stupid, break the law).

I have just recieved Email from Micronet saying that there are connectivity issues going on with SMW-3, SMW-4 and FLAG, thus all Pakistani internet users are facing degraded Internet services. They are not sure, as of now, about the cause of these issues; however Both TWA and PTCL are working with their international counterparts to get this issue discovered and resolved as soon as possible.

Slow browsing, poor throughput and high latency problems are being experienced through Pakistan by Dial-up and Broadband users alike.

At the moment, there is no timeline when this will be fixed but we expect this to be fixed within the next few hours.

Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.

The flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people’s computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say. Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it. Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world’s computer users.
“Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer,” said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.

Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the “underlying vulnerability” was present in all versions of the browser. Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified.

Browser bait

“In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did,” said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. “This is never a good thing.” As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said.

“What we’ve seen from the exploit so far is it stealing game passwords, but it’s inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals,” he said. “It’s just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs.”

Said Mr Ferguson: “If users can find an alternative browser, then that’s good mitigation against the threat.”

But Microsoft counselled against taking such action.

“I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw,” said Cliff Evans, head of Microsoft UK’s Windows group.

He added: “We’re trying to get this resolved as soon as possible.

“At present, this exploit only seems to affect 0.02% of internet sites,” said Mr Ferguson. “In terms of vulnerability, it only seems to be affecting IE7 users at the moment, but could well encompass other versions in time.”

Richard Cox, chief information officer of anti-spam body The Spamhaus Project and an expert on privacy and cyber security, echoed Trend Micro’s warning.

“It won’t be long before someone reverse engineers this exploit for more fraudulent purposes. Trend Mico’s advice [of switching to an alternative web browser] is very sensible,” he said.

PC Pro magazine’s security editor, Darien Graham-Smith, said that there was a virtual arms race going on, with hackers always on the look out for new vulnerabilities.

“The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn’t enough.”

“It’s a shame Microsoft have not been able to fix this more quickly, but letting people know about this flaw was the right thing to do. If you keep flaws like this quiet, people are put at risk without knowing it.”

“Every browser is susceptible to vulnerabilities from time to time. It’s fine to say ‘don’t use Internet Explorer’ for now, but other browsers may well find themselves in a similar situation,” he added.

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MEN

1. All men are extremely busy.
2. Although they are so busy, they still have time for women.
3. Although they have time for women, they don’t really care for them.
4. Although they don’t really care for them, they always have one around.
5. Although they always have one around them, they always try their luck with others.
6. Although they try their luck with others, they get really pissed off if the woman leaves them.
7. Although the woman leaves them they still don’t learn from their mistakes and still try their luck with others.

WOMEN

1. The most important thing for a woman is financial security.
2. Although this is so important, they still go out and buy expensive clothes and stuff.
3. Although they always buy expensive clothes, they never have something to wear.
4. Although they never have something to wear, they always dress beautifully.
5. Although they always dress beautifully, their clothes are always just “an old rag”.
6. Although their clothes are always “just an old rag”, they still expect you to compliment them.
7. Although they expect you to compliment them, when you do, they don’t believe you.

Here is contents from phpBB official post.

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the “one year anniversary” phpBB 3.0.4 package. With this release we would like to thank everyone who supported phpBB the past years. This release fixes some bugs introduced with the changes in 3.0.3, corrects minor issues, fixes two security bugs and also increases performance significantly.

Please note that we urge you to update. The versions we currently support here are and phpBB 3.0.4. Bug submissions and incident reports for older versions will be closed.

Important changes since 3.0.3:

• [Fix] Allow mixed-case template directories to be inherited (Bug #36725)
• [Fix] Regression bug from revision #8908 regarding log display in ACP
• [Fix] Allow the UCP group management to work for groups with avatars. (Bug #37375)
• [Fix] Fix header list build for replying oldest PM in PM history (Bug #37275)
• [Fix] Do not display COPPA group in memberlist find member dialog if COPPA disabled (Bug #37175)
• [Fix] Do not try to send jabber notifications if no jid entered (Bug #36775)
• [Fix] Only display special ranks to guests; no longer display normal ranks for guests (Bug #36735)
• [Fix] Properly treat punctuation marks after local urls (Bug #37055)
• [Fix] Make searching for members by YIM address work in prosilver
• [Fix] Tell users to recreate the search index after changing the common word threshold for fulltext_native (Bug #36345)
• [Fix] Adjusted phpbb_chmod() to always set permissions for group bit.
• [Fix] Do not increment users post count after post approval if post had been posted in a forum with no post count increasing set (Bug #37865)
• [Fix] Extend vertical line for last post column if no posts in forum (Bug #37125)
• [Fix] correctly update last topic/forum information if changing guest usernames through editing posts (Bug #38095)
• [Fix] fix postcount resync for situations where low and high post ids are higher than step value, resulting in users having 0 posts. (Bug #38195)
• [Fix] Use a left join for the topics table on search to avoid trouble with FROM syntax on some databases (Bug #37005)
• [Fix] Do not show ‘Forward’ button if the user cannot send PM’s
• [Change] Alllow applications to set custom module inclusion path (idea by HoL)
• [Change] Handle checking for duplicate usernames in chunks (Bug #17285 - Patch by A_Jelly_Doughnut)
• [Change] Better handling and finer control for custom profile fields visibility options. (Patch by Highway of Life)
• [Change] Performance increase for format_date() (Bug #37575 - Patch by BartVB)
• [Change] Changed prosilver date separator from ‘on’ to ‘»’
• [Change] Performance increase for get_username_string() (Bug #37545 - Patch by BartVB)
• [Change] Slight performance increase for common parameter calls to append_sid() (Bug #37555 - Patch by BartVB)
• [Feature] Added ‘AGO’ setting to relative date strings. For example: posted 14 minutes ago. (Patch by BartVB)
• [Sec] Fixed an issue where deactivated accounts could be re-activated without the required privileges. (Reported by Jorick)
• [Sec] Ask for forum password if post within passworded forum quoted in private message. (Reported by nickvergessen)

Please refer to the changelog for a complete list of fixes since 3.0.3:

A short explanation of how to do a conversion, installation or update is included within the provided INSTALL.html file, please be sure to read it.

Minimum Requirements

phpBB3 has a few requirements which must be met before you are able to install and use it.

• A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP
• A SQL database system, one of:
  • MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported)
  • PostgreSQL 7.3+
  • SQLite 2.8.2+
  • Firebird 2.0+
  • MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
  • Oracle
• PHP 4.3.3+ (>=4.3.3, >4.4.x, >5.x.x, >6.0-dev (compatible)) with support for the database you intend to use.
• getimagesize() function need to be enabled
• These optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
  • zlib Compression support
  • Remote FTP support
  • XML support
  • Imagemagick support
  • GD Support

The presence of each of these optional modules will be checked during the installation process.

Security

Security issues found should be reported to our in the usual way.

Available packages

If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the “changed files only” or “patch” method for updating.

With this release, there are five packages available.

• Full Package:
  Contains entire phpBB3 source and english language files.
• Automatic Update Package:
  Update package for the automatic updater, containing the changes from previous release to this release.
• Changed Files Only:
  Contains only those files changed from previous versions of phpBB3. Please note this archive contains changed files for each previous release.
• Patch Files:
  Contains patch compatible patches from previous versions of phpBB3.
• Code Changes Package:
  Package contains changes to the following sections: Language changes, prosilver style changes and subsilver2 style changes.

Select whichever package is most suitable for you. As a tiny guide we recommend the following methods based on the requirements:

• For a new installation you should use the Full Package
• For updates of boards without modifications you can basically use the Automatic Update Package (guided udpate) or the Changed Files Only package (manual update).
• For updates of boards with modifications you should use the Automatic Update Package. If you are confident with patch files and patching you can use the Patch Files Package.
• Style Authors and Translators may use the Code Changes Package to update their styles or language packs directly.
• International Support Teams may use the Patch Package in conjunction with the Code Changes to better support users having problems with conflicts or specific code sections.
• If you are a hoster/provider, you may want to use the Patch Files Package to update all of your client installations.

Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!.

Download Locations

You can of course find this download available on our .
We use sourceforge.net for hosting our downloads. If you have problems downloading from there, our packages are also available at .