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Spot the flaws in the Windows 7 UI

I’ve been playing around with the Windows 7 beta for a couple of days now, and it feels painful! Regardless of what Leo Laporte says, it is very much a beta. And even the recent beta releases of Ubuntu are better than this. Below you can see a screenshot in which I tried to exemplify…

February 19, 2009
Writing binary values to files from VBScript

Browsing the interwebs, I came across the following article: Invisible Denizen: ie_unsafe_scripting metasploit module. In it I found a part which raised my curiosity: Unfortunately, it does not allow you to directly write binary files to the file system. (You can use WScript.FileSystemObject to create a ‘text’ file that contains binary data, but this will…

February 18, 2009
Books to read

I’m entirely aware that probably I won’t have time to read all of them, but I’m putting them here for future reference (all of the linked books are free): from the taint.org blog / Geeking with Greg: Introduction to Information Retrieval – very interesting with contributions from real practitioners from the all about linux blog:…

February 18, 2009
Mixed links

From Slashdot: Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout. I especially liked the line “a new Facebook group called ‘People Against the new Terms of Service’ that has added more than 10,000 members today” (emphasis added). So yeah, start a group on the same site we are disagreeing with to show our protest. That should show…

February 18, 2009
Update to the Top Commenters widget

Some time ago I created a "Top Commenters" widget for Blogger using Yahoo Pipes. Unfortunately my efforts to use the resulting RSS directly failed. The problem was that Blogger was displaying older entries, even though I tried a bunch of different things to convince it that the element were new (like setting the date, adding…

February 17, 2009
Back of the napkin security research

I came up with the idea after seeing the following quote on the metasploit website: “powered by phpbb” “hacked by” – Results 1 – 10 from approximately 239.000 So you could do something similar to the TIOBE index (and with the same level of “accuracy” – this is more a fun thing than something which…

February 17, 2009
Interesting (and informative) videos

10 Things about Hard Drives: Also check out the guy’s YouTube page, because it contains two other interesting videos from the domain of data recovery (and he seems to be somebody who actually knows what he is talking about when it comes to hard drives, not like some other people). Tyler Pitchford – They Took…

February 16, 2009
Fun little game

From the All About Linux blog: spot the differences between the two picture. The right image is divided in 9 (3 by 3) regions, and you have to click on the region which contains the difference. The rule: don’t pause during play. Start below:

February 16, 2009
PostgreSQL musings

First, a very good article about creating (and maintaining!) data clustering with PostgreSQL. This made me think: wouldn’t it be nice if the automated tuning wizards would give you a short article to read which discusses the proposed solution instead of just the “turn knob X” type of suggestions? Also, Percona is hiring performance experts,…

February 15, 2009
The Amazon Mechanical Turk

A good series of posts from the “A Computer Scientist in a Business School” blog on the topic of the Amazon Mechanical Turk (and using it to solicit reviews of products): Soliciting Reviews on Mechanical Turk Time Out New York and Mechanical Turk Is it unethical to pay for reviews? Monitoring the Dynamics of Mechanical…

February 14, 2009

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