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TweetMyPC version 3 released!
Feb 16th
About
TweetMyPC is a little software-application for Windows, written in VB.Net using the .Net-Framework v3.0, which allows you to control and access your computer from anywhere by simply sending a twitter-message with a special command as its content.
Why twitter?
Most time when you want to connect two personal computers you need a Read the rest of this entry »
Mozilla Malware Fail!
Feb 7th
Apparently Mozilla has been spreading malware in the form of a few user-submitted Firefox addons. They were infected with trojans, and some 4,600 people downloaded them. This fail doesn’t suprise me- people have been talking about potential exploits from Firefox addons for years now.
I am a bit surprised that it was client-pwning malware, and not Chrome-based sniffers or keystroke loggers or something else that could work within the DOM. I have to wonder if any of those exist… Somebody should Read the rest of this entry »
Newsletter: Springboard Series Insider: Volume 2, No. 2
Feb 3rd
Yesterday I signed up to many Microsoft Newsletters and today I received this really interesting and helpfull one called Springboard Series Insiders. If you are a System Administrator / Developer or just interested in Microsoft technologies, then you should sign up to this newsletter now at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/default.aspx?ITPID=insider .
But here now the newsletter: Read the rest of this entry »
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 
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
milw0rm.com death – NO!
Dec 31st
Sadly, Milw0rm.com was offline for a few days. Stroke said “permanently”. He posted the following message on the site before it went dark:
Well, this is my goodbye header for milw0rm. I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don’t
. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job of getting peoples work out fast enough to be proud of, 0 to 72 hours (taking off weekends) isn’t fair to the authors on this site. I appreciate and thank everyone for their support in the past. Be safe, /str0ke
While it gets a bad rap for its large script kiddie user base…, I’ve learned a lot from the exploits on that site! Thanks Str0ke and all the authors! =)
BUT: While I was researching about this; I found some pages saying it looks like Stroke found some other people to take over for him. Anyway, the main website is back online, - Exploit submissions are still closed for now, and sometimes milw0rm.com seems to be offline from what the server responds, that may just be server overloading. – try it a few times…
VideoLan-Devs make video-editing-tool
Dec 29th
This video I just found in Youtbe:
As you can read in the description of this video, the VideoLAN Dev Days meeting in Paris
The VideoLAN Movie Creator, also known as VLMC, will be a free cross-platform video editing tool that offers the “features to realise semi-professional quality movies”, while remaining “simple and user-friendly”.
According to the project’s home page, a pre-release version of VLMC for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux will be available soon, but instructions how to get the sourcecode you can find here.
Apple owns iSlate.com–the mystery deepens
Dec 27th
The widely rumored Apple tablet, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, has just gotten a little more interesting.
Thanks to some crack reporting, MacRumors.com ‘discovered’ that Apple purchased the domain for “islate.com” back in 2007.
What we know: islate.com was registered to Apple in 2007, through an intermediary (to disguise its true owner). At the moment, that domain doesn’t seem to lead anywhere– Read the rest of this entry »
ReactOS 0.3.11 released!
Dec 16th
The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.11. This release has been delayed by quite some time due to various blocker bugs which manifested each time we tried to release. A lot of time has gone into hunting down these bugs and various steps have been taken to try to ensure we don’t hit this problem again. This isn’t to say we don’t have a lot of new and exciting features in this release. Two of which stand out are the huge changes to the Memory Manager and another leap forward for the sound stack
Google Chromium OS source code published!
Dec 15th
Google Chrome OS is now open sourced as “Chromium OS”. This means code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. Chromium OS project includes current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development, Google.
- It’s all about web. All apps are web apps. Entire experience takes place within browser and there’re no conventional desktop app, means users don’t have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs.
- Second, because all apps live within browser, there’re significant benefits to security. Chrome OS doesn’t trust apps you run. Each app’s contained within a security sandbox making it harder for malware and viruses to infect your computer. Chrome OS Security Overview.
- Chrome OS is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian that uses a lot of open-source software: Host AP Linux drivers, PAM (an authentication mechanism), Syslinux (a lightweight bootloader), IBus (Intelligent Input Bus for Linux / Unix OS), ConnMan (Internet connection manager), XScreenSaver and other software.
- Also Google announced, it’s OS will be ready for consumers this time next year. Sign up here for updates or if you like building your operating system from source. Or just come back to this weblog from time to time to get news about Chrome OS!
Here are 3 Videos that give you basic information about the Operating System: