With all of the time he's spent in and around the presidential campaign this past year, you knew it was just a matter of time. On CNN last night, Charles Barkley told Campbell Brown that he was indeed running for office in 2014 in the state of Alabama. Via The Hill....

"I plan on it in 2014," Barkley told CNN's Campbell Brown on Monday.

When asked if he was serious, the former Philadelphia 76er said, "I am, I can't screw up Alabama."

He added that his native state could only improve. "We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere," Barkley said.

He said that his top priority as governor would be education. "The public school system in this country is the worst it has ever been and what that does is that hurts crime, it hurts the judicial system," he said. "You know if you don't give people education and hope, they become criminals. They get involved in drugs. So we have got to fix the public school system."

Well you can't say he's wrong about that. I'd hate to see him leave TNT for office, but if that's what his ultimate goal is, you can't really stand in his way if he wants to serve his home state. I still think that he doesn't know exactly what he's getting into, but with the right people around him, hopefully he can do some good in Alabama.

Charles Barkley To Run For Alabama Governor in 2014 (The Hill)

This How-To is explaining how to install an operating system inside of another operating system. For example in this how-to were going setup a virtual machine running CentOS inside a windows XP operating system using QEMU.

Name: QEMU
HomePage: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
Function: QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/qemu/installing-linux-inside-windows-xp-using-qemu.html

This How-To is explaining how to install an operating system inside of another operating system. For example in this how-to were going setup a virtual machine running Windows 98 inside a windows XP operating system using QEMU & QEMU manager.

Name: QEMU
HomePage: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
Function: QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

Name: Qemu Manager
HomePage: http://www.davereyn.co.uk/
Function: QEMU manager provides quick control of the brilliant QEMU Emulator for win32

http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/qemu/installing-windows98-inside-windows-xp-using-qemu-manager.html

This How-To is explaining how to install an operating system inside of another operating system. For example in this how-to were going setup a virtual machine running Windows98 inside a windows XP operating system using QtEmu a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4.

Name: QEMU
HomePage: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
Function: QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

Name: QtEmu
HomePage: http://qtemu.org
Function: QtEmu is a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4

http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/qemu/installing-windows98-inside-windows-xp-using-qtemu.html

I was pointed to this reported "security issue" today, and wanted to say a quick word about this.

The report is invalid. None of the specified URLs are exploitable.

1. action.php: has include('./config.php'); as first line. config.php defines $DIR_LIBS.
2. media.php: same thing: included config.php first, via a fixed path.
3. xmlrpc/server.php: again, the same: includes config.php via a fixed path.
4. xmlrpc/api_metaweblog.inc.php: this one is just funny, since this file doesn't execute any code when called (it's included from elsewhere). The only thing it does is composing an array and defining a number of functions.

Including config.php as soon as possible, via a safe path, is crucial to Nucleus security: including config.php defines crucial variables (like DIR_LIBS) and bootstraps Nucleus (including security checks: that's why you'll receive a "Sorry, an error occurred" error message when trying these URLs)

The previous security issue, which led to the release of Nucleus v3.23, was possible because PLUGINADMIN.php has no reliable way of knowing where it is executing, and therefor cannot include config.php in a safe way. Instead, this file is included from plugin admin areas, which include the config file first. Should have called the file PLUGINADMIN.inc, actually.

Anyway, there's no need to worry about this report. You're only vulnarable to it if you've got an empty config.php file, and in that case, your site won't function anyway. As far as I know, Nucleus v3.23 is safe to use.