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Archive for June, 2004Internet Explorer Is Just Too RiskyTuesday, June 29th, 2004Stephen H. Wildstrom is finally convinced that Internet Explorer is a dangerous software. There is not too much fluff in his Internet Explorer Is Just Too Risky piece published at Business Week. Survey says: Most preferred mail is GmailTuesday, June 29th, 2004A recent survey, commissioned by Standard & Poor’s, showed 48% of Web search engine users preferred the new upcoming Google mail over its rivals, with 14% saying they preferred Microsoft’s MSN, compared with 20% for Yahoo. MS to stop combating virusesMonday, June 28th, 2004Microsoft declared it’s cutting the time it takes to blitz viruses but needs personal computer users to turn on their auto-updating features to help it combat potentially dangerous attacks. Oh really? So you’re cutting work-hours and stopping the effort to make your product more secure. In that case how turning the auto-update on will help Hotmail joins the big megabytes partyThursday, June 24th, 2004Hotmail will become the latest Web-based e-mail service to increase the amount of storage space available for its free accounts, following similar moves by rivals. Later this summer, Hotmail plans to increase the amount of storage for its free account inboxes to 250 megabytes, up from two megabytes. calculate the end of the worldThursday, June 24th, 2004If you ever wonder what might happen when weather pattern change on our planet, there is a way you can help science find out. climateprediction.net is conducting an experiment (or rather several experiments) about the future of earths weather. The main goal is to forecast of the climate in the 21st century. To do this, they Religious made a jokeWednesday, June 23rd, 2004Now, isn’t that the funniest thing you ever heard: Catholics outsource praying to India New Tiny transistors may reach the terahertzWednesday, June 23rd, 2004Tiny transistors could speed computers in a big way, says a computer-science researcher at University of California, Irvine. Peter Burke (from UCI) has shown for the first time that transistors made from single-walled carbon tubes only a few nanometers wide operate at extremely fast microwave frequencies. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter or PHP dev: echo vs. printTuesday, June 22nd, 2004There have been some discussions lately on the differences in efficiency when using echo and/or print. It seems that different programmers hold different views about that subject, the question is: Is there really a single efficient way or they share different qualities which would make some uses more efficient using one or the other and EclipseThursday, June 17th, 2004IF you don’t know what Eclipse is, here is your chance. . And the email wars beginThursday, June 17th, 2004Yahoo! is upping the competition against Google by introducing two gigabytes of free email for paying subscribers to its ISP services, double the amount that Google is offering through its Gmail service. Online to teleportationThursday, June 17th, 2004In a step toward making ultra-powerful computers, scientists have transferred physical characteristics between atoms by using a phenomenon so bizarre that even Einstein called it spooky. Such ‘‘quantum teleportation’’ of characteristics had been demonstrated before between beams of light. Printing houses hacking wars in MoscowTuesday, June 15th, 2004A competing printing house is the main suspects of hacking a computer system of “Ural worker” printing house. The damage is estimated to be tens of thousands of Russian rubles. Web Design Tip: Adding Spaces in TextMonday, June 14th, 2004Need to have a paragraph indentation? Want to space out text in your Web page? There is an easy way to add spaces to your Web page text! One just needs to enter the code for space into the HTML. This is known as a “non-breaking space.” Each occurrence of this code: will add Microsoft FAT probedSunday, June 13th, 2004Microsoft should not have any patent rights on hard drive FAT technology, according to The Public Patent Foundation. Passing shell variable into awkThursday, June 10th, 2004Here is another question that came my way. The question is how to pass a shell variable into an Awk program. Method 1 Shell scripting tutorialsThursday, June 10th, 2004At a friends request here are some tutorials for shell scripting. As requested its mostly about bourne shell. I hope it helps. More Internet Explorer VulnerabilitiesThursday, June 10th, 2004Two more vulnerabilities have been reported in Internet Explorer, which in combination with other known issues can be exploited to compromise a user’s system. 1) A variant of the “Location:” local resource access vulnerability can be exploited via a specially crafted URL in the “Location:” HTTP header to open local files. ChkrootkitWednesday, June 9th, 2004Chkrootkit is a tool used to check locally for signs of a rootkit. PrelinkWednesday, June 9th, 2004Prelink is a program which modifies ELF shared libraries and ELF dynamically linked binaries, so that the time which dynamic linker needs for their relocation at startup significantly decreases and also due to fewer relocations the run-time memory consumption decreases too (especially number of unshareable pages). Such prelinking information is only used if all its SoundWalk in NYCTuesday, June 8th, 2004The lack of posts in the last couple of weeks was due to a business trip to NY and NJ coupled with a few days off to travel around. Today as came back, I found out about Soundwalk - audio walking tours for various NYC neighborhoods. SoundWalk is an engaging experience that is the creation of Sony drops the PDA lineWednesday, June 2nd, 2004It seems that Sony has decided to halt sales of its Clie handheld in the U.S and Europe. This is a sure blow to the PDA market, reflecting strong competition. Intel to release various new Pentium 4sWednesday, June 2nd, 2004Intel Corporation, officially issued a document reflecting the company’s intention to bring more advanced Intel Pentium 4 microprocessors based on Prescott core later this year. As reported previously, the new products will shore up power management and security features. Tripwire isn’t sending mailTuesday, June 1st, 2004So here I am installing tripwire on a server after years away from this software. At first glance Tripwire looks complicated but an easy browse through Red Hat’s Reference Guide and things are pretty clear. |
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