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What I’ve been working on lately
malware competition.pdf MD5: 1FD6AC0B6120EE280C0A0E68300EFEEC SHA1: A48F88569EA0CD47F97F0327B3DBCB4BC1AF3CF8 After the end-date has passed, I’ll post the complete solution.
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Wikis or blogs?
One of my readers commented that he thought that people should use wikis rather than blogs. I agree with him (for the same reasons he mentions). The ideal CMS (Content Management System) for me would look something like this: On the basis it should have a wiki. I often write tutorials, and the main characteristics…
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Google Fu, or: you are not as anonymous as you think
A colleague gave me a link to the Malware Challeng site. Basically, they have a sample and you have until the 26th of October to analyze it and send them the analysis and prizes will be given to the best analysis. Prizes will be given. But this is not what I wanted to talk about.…
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Ubuntu 8.10 comes with Perl 5.10!
I just found this out: Ubuntu 8.10 (in its alpha version, which means that it probably will be true for the final version too) with Perl 5.10! W00t! I better read through the changedoc it seems :-).
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Creating a horizontal menu with jQuery
I’ve looked around on the net for something similar, but I couldn’t find it, so here is some quick code I’ve put together. Requirements: create a two-level horizontal menu. The menu will be on a separate page on the top frame (yes, frames are so ’90, but they can easily integrate multiple sites). Initially I…
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Mixed links
Via taint.org: viewing PostgreSQL locks and the queries it conflicts with. Via the linuxhelp blog: special locations which can be used in Gnome/Nautilus. Via the journal of brian: Markmail offers advanced methods for searching mailing archives. Yahoo just recently introduced something similar in their mail interface and it works great. Again, via the linuxhelp blog:…
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Speedruns
I game occasionally and these days I’ve learned a new word: speedrun. From Wikipedia: A speedrun is a play-through, or recording thereof, of a computer- or video game performed with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible, optionally under certain prerequisites, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition. At Speed Demos Archive…
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Testing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
Disclaimer: you should do this on a computer you want to work on only if you like taking risk, since it very well break some things (and in fact it has for me – luckily I managed to work around the breakage). The process itself is pretty simple: You edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and replace occurances…
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The power of deduction – how information wants to be free
I find it amusing how people try to keep things secret, yet they talk about things which (rather directly) reveal the information they try to keep secret. Take for example the comments on this article (for my non-romanian speaking readers: it talks about the recent evolution of the EUR-RON exchange rate). One reader comments (approximately):…
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What is a rogue anti-spyware / anti-malware product?
Seeing how Kurt over at anti-virus-rants doesn’t yet have a definition for this, and I’ve just blogged about such a situation, I thought I take a shot at it. The definition of a rogue anti-spyware/anti-malware usually includes the following items: it is program which claims to be an anti-spyware / anti-malware product, however It has…