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Brad Fitzpatrick wrote an excellent article explaning LiveJournal’s backend development and considerations for architecture in the #124 issue of LinuxJournal.

One of the best resource for game development is the site GameDev. It features many online resources like product reviews, tutorials, book reviews and a great online community.

Jeff Maurone tells all about his experience while visiting at Bill Gates home. The house, the man, and the coolest part.

How many times have you thought about installing a personal computer in your car? Well, here is someone who done it. Inluding Wifi networking, Hide-A-Way 2.0 USB ports, the works. Watch and leard

The Programmers Stone - Computer programmers who take themselves seriously will like this site very much. The purpose of this site is to recapture, explore and celebrate the Art of Computer Programming. It is mainly an online book designated to programmers and deals with a developers daily tasks and thinking.
If this: “A computer system
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A vulnerability was discovered in Microsoft Systems Management Server, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct Denial Of Service attacks against the server.
This vulnerability effects Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.50.2726 and all it’s older versions including 2.0, 1.2 including their Service Packs.

Microsoft Systems Management Server is vulnerable to a remote denial of
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A vulnerability was discovered in the Opera browser, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks against a user.
The problem is that Opera fails to update the address bar if a web page is opened using the “window.open” function and then “replaced” using the “location.replace” function. This causes Opera to display
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You might have heard already about the new universal remote control from Sony, the NAVITUS. This is an impressive piece of electronics with the ability to control 18 different components, LCD Screen with 65536 colors, 33 Macro functions allow for 32 consecutive operations, Compatible with Sony and most major brands of electronics including lights
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Major Internet search engines were crippled Monday morning by a variant of the MyDoom worm, rendering Google inaccessible to many users and slowing results from Yahoo. The attack affected Google, Channel 9, Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos. and maybe others as well.
Google representatives confirmed that the MyDoom worm affected performance of the search engine. Despite users
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a new vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox, allowing malicious sites to abuse SSL certificates of other sites.
It is possible to make the browser load a valid certificate from a trusted website by using a specially crafted “onunload” event. The problem is that Mozilla loads the certificate from a trusted website and
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Undercity.org tells the story of the New York City undergrounds. This is not some kind of a mysterious underground movement but the story of various subway areas and other places of New York you wouldn’t usualy visit.
You can contribute pictures, stories, or information you’d like to see up on the site as well.

Ever thought what will happen when you open all Microsoft Word toolbrs? Now you can see

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Samba, potentially allowing malicious people to compromise a vulnerability system.
1) The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when decoding base64 data during HTTP basic authentication. This can potentially be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
2) The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the code
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A new vulnerability has been reported in phpBB, allowing malicious people to conduct Cross Site Scripting attacks.
An Input passed to various parameters in certain scripts isn’t properly sanitised by phpBB scripts before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context
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Let’s say you are running your server for a while and everything is smooth. Now you want to add additional security to all incoming connections. Here comes stunnel to the rescue.
Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can
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Windows NT, 2000 and XP use a configuration file called BOOT.INI to control how the operating system is booted and most startup options. By modifying the startup switches in BOOT.INI you can manage the boot process including booting Windows in Safe mode, creating a log file, or disabling the splash screen.
The BOOT.INI file can be
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If you get an error regarding a missing or corrupt hal.dll file, it might simply be the BOOT.INI file on the root of the C: drive that is misconfigured.
Here’s a way to solve it:
1. Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD.
2. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
3. Press the number that corresponds
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We have seen in recent years the massively multiplayer gaming scene boom like no other. More and more games are introduced monthly and many more in upcoming months.
A noticeable one was Horizons: Empire of Istaria which introduced many new concept into this genre. The problem was that the developers couldn’t complete the game as it
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The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key/Serial key) used to install windows or office from your computers registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME,
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How many times you trusted your good old floppy bootdisk and found out it’s kaput? Well there is one place you can turn to when this happens, BootDisks.com.
At BootDisks.com you can find ready to create boot disks of all Microsoft operating systems, starting from DOS 5.0 and all the way to Windows XP setup disk
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I’m no big fan of toolbars that usualy add one feature and nothing much more.

UCmore tries to bring you a feature that will make your search easier. It tries to be an expert that guides you as you search and surf, saving the need to stop and find a search engine. UCmore
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Microsoft released a preview version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2.
As stated on the download site: “To aid IT professionals in planning and testing for the deployment of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft is making available this preview, based on Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of SP2.“

You want to spy on someones internet presence? Now you can with IMWatching.
IMWatching lets you record and analyze anybody’s Instant Messenger presence.
Most Instant Messenger users broadcast when they sign on, sign off, go idle, and flag themselves as away. This presence information is typically innocuous, useful for knowing if your buddies are available to chat.
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An input validation vulnerability was reported in Hotmail in the processing of HTML comments. A remote user can conduct cross-site scripting attacks against target users via Internet Explorer.
Paul at GreyHats Security Group reported that Hotmail does not properly filter HTML code from HTML comments in HTML-based e-mail. A remote user can send specially crafted
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When non of your friends is playing your favorite online game you need to find a playing mate on your own. But it’s not always easy to find a friend or an opponent and get onto the same server. A relativly new instant messaging application tackles both problems, making it simple to check whether your
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A new vulnerability was found in Mozilla and Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
Arbitrary root certificates are imported silently without presenting users with a import dialog box when the MIME type is specified as: “application/x-x509-email-cert”.

This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious websites or HTML-based emails to
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FUH2 is the home of the official Hummer H2 salute.
FUH2 gives you 5 reasons (among many others) you should salute the H2:
* The H2 is the ultimate poseur vehicle. It has the chassis of a Chevy Tahoe and a body that looks like the original Hummer; i.e. it’s a Chevy Tahoe in
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Microsoft Research has posted a preview release of the compiler technology that was formerly code-named “X#”(and then “Xen”). Now known as “C-Omega,” the new language is designed to roll the SQL, XML and object-oriented programming models all into one.
Microsoft is making the preview available under its Shared Source licensing terms. You can check
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Music Plasma is musical visual search engine that finds other musical artists or groups with similar style or genre.It lets you identify artists/bands that fit your musical tastes. You enter a band name and this site will graphically display band relationships with other artists.
One of the things I noticed about the search results is
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CNET Networks said it will pay $70 million to acquire Webshots, a digital photography Web site that was salvaged from the ruins of bankrupt Excite@Home for $2.4 million 21/2 years ago.
The deal represents another coup for Webshots founder Narendra Rocherolle and his business partners, who sold the site to ExciteAtHome for $82.5 million in 1999,
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MandrakeSoft has issued an update for php. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security functionality or compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities appeared in PHP version 4.0 to PHP 4.3.7 and has been fixed in 4.3.8

Seems like Google is planning to launch a new feature to allow users to scour the Internet for audio and video clips..
The company has yet to announce plans for the new service, but Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made no secret of it during talks with investors and media executives. A Google spokeswoman
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An old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that the browsers don’t check if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore doesn’t prevent one browser window from loading content in a named frame in another window. Successful
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PHP 5 released!!! This release represents an important milestone in the evolution of PHP. It sports the new Zend Engine II, a completely re-worked object model, and a lot of new features.
Here are some of the new features:
- The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
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Microsoft has issued two critical and five important software patches for Windows XP and 2000. The critical patches cover a flaw in the task scheduler program and Microsoft’s HTML Help function.
Microsoft spokesman said that both critical vulnerabilities could be exploited if hackers tricked Internet Explorer users into visiting a specially designed Web site.

They also released
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Spftly spoken and quietly understated Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confessed that his company is not perfect on the issue of security. Really?
The move shocked many in the IT industry management and software developers whose jaws dropped at the frank admission.

According to Reuters, Ballmer said that Microsoft had more to do in order to
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Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department FTP server was taken over by a terror cell loyal to Osama bin Laden. The site became the home to 70 videos featuring Islamic jihadist anthems and terrorist speeches. Links to the files were posted to a message boards of a pro- Al Qaeda group called al Ansar by someone
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