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Friday, August 4th, 2006
Surprise…. The AP is reporting that the music industry is suing limewire. There are several companies involved and they’re seeking compensatory and punitive damages. They argue that limewire encourages and has used the infringement of copyright to “build their business”. Send article as PDF
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
The Register sums up the Black Hat briefings pretty well. The Operating System level has received a lot of scrutiny in recent years for security flaws and as a result there has been a good deal of improvement there and so now, researchers are heading to the low hanging fruit of the REST of the […]
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
I saw this by way of SunbeltBLog yesterday…. workfriendly.net…. you basically enter a web address and choose which “microsoft office theme” you want to use and the page is presented as if it was just a text document (backgrounds/images seem to be stripped) in Word. (Complete with toolbars…) Links still work. Some people have a […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
SANS has an answer to last months browser vulnerability a day blog… for August they’ll present a security tip a day. So, if you haven’t visited the handlers diary, this may be a good time to “tune in”. The first one has to do with strong passwords (I think they decided they may as well […]
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
For those of you that aren’t aware…. Bleeding Snort is a collection of “bleeding edge” snort signatures. Snort is an intrusion detection framework. This note is by way of SARC that the bleedingsnort.org domain is now no longer under their control. bleedingsnort.com is and continues to be their official domain. Unfortunately it appears as though […]
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Lately, I’ve tried to make use of my phone’s voice command system for calls. I’ve had a couple long drives and used a headset and tried to do something that works better without the headset…. “Name Dial”…. “please say the number” (sigh…) “1234567” “did you say 3225467?” “NO” “did you say 3225468?” “NO!” 5 miles […]
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Well after a bit of a roundup of some of the security news items the last week, it’s time to sum up the Google front…. Googling Google tells us that Infinite storage is on the horizon…. they cite a translator that has done work for google. He has been asked to translate “The result?… from […]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
I’ve detailed some of the struggles I had for a bit with FLOODS of comment spam. Details of the issue and a fix which has been rock solid for WordPress can be found in the following posts (reverse chronological order): Update on comment spam storms, trackback spam countermeasures such as akismet and trackback validation, another […]
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
I’ve been keeping an install of Vmware virtual Server through their beta and Release Candidate phase and have seen several places that they’ve released the 1.0 version today. This release is free (as in no charge.) Although support is available…. Send article as PDF
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
I’ve seen a couple places referring to some improvements in the way google maps handles zooming and so I decided to take a look in Firefox. The zoom handling of Google maps is the one thing that I’ve wished for an improvement in for some time. After noticing MSN’s virtual earth had the capability of […]
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