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Funny flash
From Userfriendly.org: Tesla Coil: Super Mario Theme With Lightning. Seriously cool! From good friend of mine: wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo. And from absoblogginlutely: Auditorium Now I should get back to work 🙂
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Watch out for long running tasks with Java Timer
The problem? Write a code which will execute every N seconds. The solution? Using a Timer with scheduleAtFixedRate. Now you got two problems :-), unless you’ve carefully read the documentation which states (emphasis added): If an execution is delayed for any reason (such as garbage collection or other background activity), two or more executions will…
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Preventing your site from becomming a spammer heaven
An other resource to help webmasters keep their new years resolution: Preventing Virtual Blight complete with video and slides 🙂
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Circumventing web filtering software
I was reading the Messing with Web Filtering Gateways post from GNU Citizen, and here are some comments / ideas: The problem is the impedance mismatch between the way the filtering software is parsing the headers and the way the webserver parses them. There will always be corner cases… For example, it would be interesting…
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grcsucks.com revival – #2
These posts republish content from the now defunct grcsucks.com site. The following one is a very good one, by somebody who knows networking: Martin Roesch, the author and lead developer of Snort. Dissecting GRC’s NanoProbes by martin.roesch http://www.snort.org Comments refer to : http://grc.com/np/np.htm Ok, so in the “broken out” packet dump at the bottom of…
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Hack the Gibson #169
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Steve Gibson says that MSRT runs when restarting the computer: … And then it runs the next time you restart your machine This is not true, not only because MS says so (The version of the tool delivered by Microsoft Update and Windows Update runs…
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Disabling accessibility features on the Welcome Screen for Windows XP
As I said before, one of the first thing I do when I install WinXP is to disable the accessibility features. However this is a per user setting and I would like to disable it on the welcome screen also. This is especially useful for the default setup I do: an administrative user and a…
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Mixed links
From splibrain.org: Graph Gear, a very nice flash based open source (!) graphing solution. Very nice if you want to display graphs online. Interesting to know: why is Italy excluded from all online contests? From devnet’s bookmarks: SS64 – command references for Windows, Linux (bash), Powershell and Oracle. This site is a good resource which…
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Two new podcasts
Just wanted to announce two new podcasts I’ve started listening to, and maybe they would be of interest to people interested in security: The IT Security Pubcast – a South African podcast with security professionals who have real, hands-on experience with the physical aspects of security. Being a more electronic-only guy, this is a very…