Computer Hardware and Software
Archive for January, 2010
Viruses for Linux mean Linux is getting Mainstream?
Jan 30th
Freetards have long held the belief that Linux is immune to viruses. None of them will be able to give a clear reason as to why this is, but they generally believe that its because Linux is so much better written. They ignore the fact that with a 1% marketshare and unstable API, Linux is a very small moving target that will garner little press should a virus actually strike.
However, when a malicious virus was discovered in several screen savers on an Ubuntu theme site the freetard spin went into overdrive. Some going as far as to claim that viruses are an indication that Linux has gone mainstream.
“In my eyes this is just an indication that Linux has made it big. This should be a milestone for distributions.”
You can’t have it both ways freetards! You can’t tell everyone to use Linux because its more secure and doesn’t get viruses, then immediately turn around and claim that the viruses are a good sign.
PS: If you don’t agree with this, just post a link to this blog somewhere and then discuss it with other people. If you still think, this is wrong, feel free to write a comment 
About 2012-Supernova: Give me my 90 minutes wasted time back!!!
Jan 22nd
Warning: If you are going to watch the movie 2012-Supernove: DO NOT watch it – can cause serious Brain-damage 
Another film jumping on the 2012 bandwagon. But, like a zillion other disaster movie buffs I watch them, and whether a block buster or a z grade I usually enjoy them. Until now!!!! Boy could this movie have used a rewrite, some good actors and a decent budget.
Lets start off with the tri-partisan team supposedly saving the world in a top security bunker with top of the range computers which in actual fact looked like you local warehouse with computers from the Amstrad days! We had a Chinese, kungfu, save my country at the expense of everyone else, female scientist, who, incidentally can fly the shuttle! A vodka swilling Russian scientist who looked a lot like a mad
Einstein, who also could fly the shuttle and a good old USA scientist out to save the world even if it meant throwing himself into the face of death… of course! and of course he can pilot the shuttle, all of them wearing overalls and motor bike helmets… oh, and i have seen enough of the shuttle over the years on TV to know what the inside of it looks like and trust me, I have never seen anything like what they were supposedly flying… And when they got to the space station they were the only ones on it. Where were all the other scientists while this was going on? Are we to believe that the world at large trusted 3 scientists to save us… no contact with any world leaders, or any one for that matter.
In the middle of all this we have tornado’s, lightning storms, earth quakes, even a lecherous farmer and just about anything else that could be thrown at the poor wife and daughter of the American scientist who are just trying to get to safety while their man tries to save the world.
I kept watching this hoping it would get better… BUT IT DIDN’T.
There are some movies that are so bad you have to watch them, but this doesn’t even fit in that category. It is just plain bad. I guess its the best you can do with a budget of $3.50. And with that I would want $2.00 change. Don’t waste your time with this one. SciFi channel… shame on you!!!!
Download free ebook : Cloud Computing
Jan 19th
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Activate Windows 7’s Hidden ‘God Mode’
Jan 5th
Handy trick if you’re setting up a machine for the first time and need to access many settings:
I think it is not really needed to explain a lot – just do the following 3 steps:
Create a new folder Name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} That’s it
here a picture how it looks like if you open this extremely helpfull folder:
AWESOME – I love windows seven
for more information see: http://www.osnews.com/story/22691/Activate_Windows_7_s_Hidden_God_Mode_
SpamAssassin’s new year hangover
Jan 5th
The Apache SpamAssassin spam filter has been shipping with a rule which defined any year past 2009 as “grossly in the future” and adding 3.2 to the email’s spam score. The default threshold for spam is 5.0, so the error makes it much more likely that legitimate mail will be falsely marked as spam.
The problem was noted by Mike Cardwell, a GB based developer, who brought up the issue on the spam filter’s mailing list. The problem had been reported in 2008 and fixed in the SpamAssassin repositories, but the rules were not backported to 3.2 for users until new years day when the omitted update was noticed.
SpamAssassin users will need to run the sa-update command to update their rule set. If they are unable to do this, for whatever reason, then adding score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0.0 to the local.cf file will work around the problem.
For more information see: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/FH_DATE_PAST_20XX