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I’m not a ‘lone bitter old man 🙂
You might remember this post, where I was criticizing the so called vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. Alex Eckelberry over at the SunbeltBLOG just came out with a post saying the exact same thing. While I don’t agree with many of his previous posts (like those about HIPSs and Patchguard), this one is spot on.
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What you don’t need javascript for – part 2
Read part 1 of my rant There is a saying in Hungarian: Don’t look at the teeth of a horse you received as a gift. It refers to the fact that you shouldn’t criticize something if you get it for free. However from time to time I feel the need to raise my voice about…
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Hackers and Hollywood
Servers in the Movies Top 20 Hackers in Film History What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies)
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Portable GUI applications
After moving almost entirely to Ubuntu (I haven’t booted Windows on my home computer for almost a month now :)), I searched for ways to create little applications which I can use at my workplace (in a mostly Windows environment). For command line scripts Perl worked out great (just a reminder to everyone, including myself:…
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The fact that you write for a big site doesn’t make you an expert
The corollary of the above being: don’t rephrase what the expert said if you don’t understand it. Real life example from an eweek article: The Redmond, Wash. software giant has convinced major U.S. computer makers—including Dell, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard—to make default changes at the BIOS level to allow a new Vista security feature called ASLR…
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Offline updating of Windows
When re-installing Windows, you should always do so without any network physical connection (meaning unplugged network cables) or you risk infecting yourself via various exploits (for example there is at least one virus which scans the LAN for PCs to infect). Now heise security has put together a tool to download the security updates on…
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Linux command line options
Being a Linux newbie, I’m always looking for tips and tricks related to this new OS I’m learning. Here is an article from IBM, via Slashdot: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
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Education
I knew that that in Romanian schools you couldn’t get decent education, but it seems more and more that that this is a general truth, independent of your country: Web Development at WTFU An interview with Al Shugart
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Undisclosed Microsoft bug
Over at the eEye research site you can read a worrying and little confusing advisory (how can something be a local privilege escalation and a remote code execution attack at the same time?). I’m eagerly awaiting more details about this. In the mean time, don’t forget to subscribe to their Zero-Day tracker. Update: I don’t…
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The night of the ad eaters
I’m getting old. I know this because last night we attended The Night of the Ad Eaters and after sleeping for 8 ours I still can barely keep my eyes open :). My impressions: Coca Cola is better than Pepsi (I can’t understand how Pepsi can put that much money in their ads and still…