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Open letter to PhishTank
Dear PhishTank! I’m writing this letter / blog post because I couldn’t find any contact addresses on your site or a user forum to voice my concern. The idea of crowd-sourcing the phish detection great because it lets a human make judgment about threats directed at humans (which is much easier than developing and maintaining…
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Some fun timewasters 🙂
Found this one via h-i-r.net: And the following one is from friends (these are in German, but many of them can be enjoyed even if you don’t know the language): Some of the highlights from both of the channels:
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Virtually Hosted SSL – almost there
Virtual hosting (hosting multiple sites on the same IP address) became possible with HTTP/1.1 because it declares the “Host” header, which specifies which one of the (possibly) multiple sites hosted on the same IP address you would like to reach (a small side-effect is that when you use the IP address of a site, you…
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Windows 7 UI glitch
While reading this post I’ve remembered a quirk of the Windows 7 UI which annoys me to no end: you have to click on a non-empty part of the list to get the item-specific menu, otherwise you will get the folder-specific menu, as shown in the second screenshot: This is in fact consistent with the…
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delicious/cdman83
EASEUS Disk Copy: Free Disk Copy, Disk Clone, Partition Copy Software. Sector by Sector for hard drive backup freeware. Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:22 AM PDT Searching For Evil Posted: 05 Aug 2009 11:16 PM PDT Via http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/08/05/9857537.aspx AV-Test.org · Tests of Anti-Virus- and Security-Software Posted: 31 Jul 2009 01:30 AM PDT Interesting, freely available…
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Basic multi-media (post)processing
Having the best audio/video quality available when you publish media is very important. I’ve heard an theory (which sound logical – although that doesn’t automatically mean that it is true :-)) that if the voice quality is poor, you get more tired of listening to it, since your brain works harder during the interpretation phase…
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Sunbelt Software VIPRE Antivirus review
Full disclosure: for several years I worked in the AV industry for a company which can be considered a competitor to Sunbelt Software. However I don’t any more. Sunbelt Software started out as an anti-spyware company, however a few years ago they re-oriented themselves towards the more general anti-malware market, which is a really nice…
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Patching lcc-win32 so that it runs under Windows 2000
lcc-win32 is a small C (not C++!) for Windows, which comes with a simple editor/IDE. It is free for non-commercial use and is small and quick to install. Unfortunately it wouldn’t start on a fully patched Windows 2000 SP4 box, even though the homepage explicitly mentions Windows 2000 as supported. The problem was that my…
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Perlmonks passwords compromised
Just on the off-chance that you read this blog, have a Perlmonks account and haven’t heard already (even though notification emails have been sent AFAIK): The perlmonks server has compromised and the entire user database was accessible to the attacker. What is even worse, the passwords were in cleartext (so they are directly accessible without…