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Archive for March, 2008
Microsoft’s new weapon against open source: Stupidity
An Information Week article published last week appears to position Microsoft as trying to do something right when it comes to open source. And it positions the open source community as being not quite ready to make nice after past insults, threats, and abuse. Speaking for myself, I am always ready to see what somebody has to say when they say [...]
HOWTO: Change the mood of any user on Facebook who has the Moods application installed
This "hack" has already been patched but the method is still useful to any good script kiddie. In fact, it's barely a "hack." You are only modifying the information being sent to a 3rd party that is used within a Facebook application. LOL. Personally, I don't want to be responsible for putting someone in a bad mood.
Mukasey: ZOMG Piracy Funding Terror! NOES!!!1!
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups. In remarks to Silicon Valley executives at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey said the economy and national security of the United States are [...]
UPDATE: With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest
Does anybody know what distribution was used? Something like RedHat or Fedora is pretty significantly hardened right "out of the box", where there are other distros that aren't as locked-down. The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony [...]
Revolution OS: Documentary of Linux
My favorite quote: Giving the Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is like giving the Han Solo award to the rebel fleet. I think many of you are not aware of how deep that analogy goes. http://video.google.com
Geekiest song ever: A Cryptography song entitled “Crypto”
"I looked through my mp3 collection and found some really geeky and funny songs. I thought, why not add a little more fun to my blog! The songs are really geeky and my readers might like them. I’ll be posting a song each Friday until I run out of songs (I have 6 songs at the moment, and maybe I find some more). I’ll also try to [...]
60% of Photoshop Users are PIRATES!
So here it is… the one week results from our previous poll on software piracy. In that short time, we’ve had nearly 500 photographers cast their votes and the outcome is quite interesting. It looks like Adobe’s high-end photo editing software packages (like Photoshop and Lightroom) are hot items in the pirated software [...]
Federal Reserve to Oversee “Financial Market Stability”
Check out some of the background stories that have been leading up to this: Goldman Sachs Creates Private Stock Exchange for Unregistered Securities, Clients with $100 Million Minimum NASDAQ to Open Unregulated Private Stock Exchange for Investors with a Minimum of $100 Million in Assets Big Traders Dive Into Dark Pools In other words, [...]
More TSA Stupidity
Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration said Friday its officers at a Texas airport appear to have properly followed procedures when they allegedly forced a woman to remove her nipple rings -- one with pliers -- but acknowledged the procedures should be [...]
Macbook Air Hacked in 2 mintues
San Francisco - It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. He took the first of three laptop computers -- and a $10,000 cash prize -- Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes, [...]
HOWTO: Back Up and Restore Your MySQL Database
Do you need to change your web host or switch your database server? This is probably the only time when you really think of backing up your MySQL data. If you've got a website with a database or your custom database running for your applications, it is imperative that you make regular backups of the database. In this article, I will outline two [...]
Computer Science majors lowest in a decade
All Things Considered, March 12, 2008 · The number of students enrolled in computer science programs is at its lowest in at least a decade. "Comp Sci" was one of the hottest majors during the dot-com boom of the late '90s, but the numbers dropped after the bust of 2001. Now, despite a strong market for IT professionals and a resurgence [...]
Google: No kids allowed
Google's terms of service, while ignored by the vast majority of users, contain a pretty shocking clause: Under 18's are not permitted to use any of Google's Web properties. That's right, kids--no search, YouTube, Gmail, news, or images. Under 18s wishing to watch YouTube videos of skateboarding dogs, or perform research for a school project [...]
VLC Player Vulnerable to Remote Hijack
VLC is a popular media player among BitTorrent users. Not just for the fact that it is free, also because it includes a huge number of the video codecs, so it can play virtually every video file available.Unfortunately, the latest versions of VLC have a security flaw according to a report from Luigi Auriemma. The vulnerability can be exploited to [...]
After 8 years, I finally used System Restore. Do you use it?
Microsoft introduced System Restore in Windows Me back in 2000. I'm not sure if it even worked. I just know it loaded an EXE on every boot, eating up precious Win9x 16/32-bit resources that helped reduce stability and require the user to reboot more than needed. I usually kept it disabled. System Restore never really became widely used by [...]
Bill criminalizing WiFi leeching shot down, and rightly so
If you use someone else's WiFi signal without permission, you're a thief. That's the conclusion of a bill introduced into the Maryland General Assembly last week. Sponsored by Delegate LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., the legislation would criminalize the unauthorized use of a wireless access point in the state; it has since received an "unfavorable report" [...]
HOWTO: Linux kill and logout users
Yet another newbie question that suggests people love to kill and show their power to rest of the world... There is a package called procps. It includes various useful (READ: nifty) utilities. One of such utility is skill which is responsible to send a signal to users and process such as: Halt user terminal Kill user and logout Also [...]
Ever wanted to download the internet?
Good god... If I did the math right, it comes to 13,996 GB. Source
HOWTO: Find a Job with RSS Feeds
The Productivity Portfolio has a great walk-through on how to create a collection of personalized RSS feeds to show any new jobs that pop up on eight popular or specialized job search sites, including Craigslist, CareerBuilder.com, and Indeed. Even if RSS feeds are old news for you, you might not know just what each of the major job-finding sites [...]
