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delicious/cdman83
Vista automatic updates have deleted all of the data on my desktop. Posted: 25 Dec 2009 08:37 AM PST I love "Indian-English": By doing automatic updates you want lose the Data saved on the system. net toolkit::index Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:28 AM PST Appendix G: Windows Update Agent Result Codes Posted: 31 Dec 2009…
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An useful Ubuntu (online) resource
If you use Ubuntu, the full circle magazine is a great resource, go check it out. For example from the latest issue I’ve learned that I should install vim-nox on my servers if I want to upgrade my 1980’s experience to 1990’s :-). I there is one (small) issue, it is the fact that the…
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Forensic analysis of JPEG images
Recently I became aware of the Hackerfactor blog, especially the posts related to discovering image manipulation. It is interesting to read what one can deduce from an image, even when one doesn’t use such “obvious” information sources like image metadata (I say “obvious” because it seems that it isn’t obvious at all for most people…
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Security vendor’s “top-threat” list proof for their less-than-perfect performance?
Here is something I’ve been thinking about lately: most (all?) security vendors publish their “top-threats” periodically. Those lists are made up by centralizing numbers reported by their clients. While it is safe to assume that the majority of the enumerated threats are blocked straight-away – before they can execute a single piece of code –…
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A missed opportunity
The theory of capitalism (and I’m greatly oversimplifying here, I know) says that, even is we all follow just our own self interest, a global “good” will somehow emerge. This is what F-Secure is doing in their blogpost where they write about a specific ransomware which – if you get infected with – encrypts your…
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Announcing a couple of contests
Here are some contests I found: The Fifth Underhanded C Contest – the scope is to write benign looking code which would pass trough a code-review (and/or there is plausible deniability for the coder), but which does some evil things. Found it via slashdot. Some of the previous solutions are truly ingenious. From the Forensics…
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Options for giving
I won’t go as far as to say that the calendar system is arbitrary and there is no reason to follow it :-p, but I have to say that giving donations shouldn’t be limited to Christmas. So if are/get in a giving mood, here are some geeky organizations you could donate to: There is an…
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Making Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
I just remembered what a Prodigy fan I was. The old man :-p doesn’t like it, but that’s ok. I don’t like Tokyo Hotel either 🙂 And here is even more Prodigy music, curtesy of Grooveshark:
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TwitFeeder is not for Twitter only
The TwitFeeder has support for non-Twitter sources – crossposted from the TwitFeeder blog: The TwitFeeder uses the Twitter API to get the different bits and pieces of information needed to generate the enhanced RSS feed. However Twitter isn’t the only one exposing the API: Laconi.ca (now Status.Net) is an “Open source microblogging service” and it…
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Google Web Hosting alternatives
Google is one of the “big three” integrated web hubs on the internet offering many services in one place, most of them free. Of course everything has it price (nothing is truly free) and these offerings being free means that they don’t guarantee a very end-user friendly SLA. For example they recently retired Google Pages…