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I just seen it somewhere and had to check for myself. If you search for the term “created with” on Google, what comes first? …. Vim … The line editor I used to hate and now absolutely adore, like so many others. I created so many pages using Vim it’s uncountable.
The result for the
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Running a Quake2 server? You should know that multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Quake2 engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), potentially execute arbitrary code, disclose sensitive information, conduct spoofing attacks, and corrupt server data for other clients.
1) An input validation error when handling “Configstrings”
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A PuTTY IPv6 “SSH2_MSG_DEBUG” packet handling buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in PuTTY IPv6, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
Solution: Update to version 0.56.

When you need to play QuickTime file (.mov, .qt extensions) there are not many options. Usually you will have to install the QuickTime player but not everybody like that options. Now, there is a QuickTime Alternative. it support playing movie files that are stored on you computer as well as QuickTime content embedded in
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Firefox users world wide are getting organized to celebrate Firefox 1.0 with a full-page ad in The New York Times! An individual contribution of as little as $10 will get a contributors name in the ad.
There are several ways for individuals, families & businesses to get involved. Join thousands of other Firefox users in
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I just stumbled over this interesting article in the Linux Gazette about migration from ASP to PHP. If you didn’t do it already it’s time to start. Very interesting and helpful to anyone thinking about doing it.

Winners declaired in Zend’s PHP 5 Coding Contest.
First of all, congratulations to Qiang Xue, whose application ‘PRADO’ earned high votes both from the public and from the judges’ panel! There are 49 other prizewinning applications in the contest gallery. Some of them are ongoing projects, bringing PHP 5 a small armoury of useful open source
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There are some new details about the new iPod coming out soon.
It’s a 65k-color screen, 220 by 176 pixel resolution. Same click wheel as before. 15-hour battery life. In this version you will be able to see color pictures of the album played, and some other pictures as well, it seems. iTunes is upgraded
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Om Malik writes in Business 2.0 About Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare coming true. Sounds like the future might be getting brighter really soon for the computing world. This is of course if the Firefox platform will really take off the way he predicts.

I just saw this poster?! a few minutes ago at the lagoon5 blog and couldn’t help myself but post it here.
There is something commanding and frightening about it. I’m not sure we (Firefox friends) really want Firefox associated with this semi-communist message but nevertheless I liked it at first glace so here it is.
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Today I came across an Operating System named O-Yes. According to the OS’s site it’s “the most efficient OS known to mankind. And it has been developed by a kid in India!! For many years it has been a closely guarded secret to protect our national interests.“. hmmm…. strange but might be interesting.
It continues
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Various games had made the headlines lately not for their great gameplay or graphics but for being pre-released by hackers and thisves. This time it’s the turn of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to his the piracy networks.
Only a week ago Halo 2 appearing on the Web prior to it’s release date joining two
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Two new vulnerabilities were discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited to compromise a user’s system, link to local resources, and bypass a security feature in Microsoft Windows XP SP2.
1) Insufficient validation of drag and drop events from the “Internet” zone to local resources for valid images or media files with embedded HTML code.
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It seems like there is not much information about FTP protocol errors. One that came up recently is “553 Error”.
553 Error is an FTP error which is associated with FTP configured limitations. Most of the times it can result in one of two cases:
1. Due to ‘directory structure too deep’. That means that you
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A vulnerability was reported in Symantec Norton AntiVirus / Norton Internet Security, which can be exploited by malicious and/or local users to disable the application’s auto-protection .
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the auto-protection functionality when dealing with certain visual basic scripts. This can be exploited by a unprivileged user to force
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I am out of invites for now but expecting a few more in the upcoming days. You can still contact me with a request here and i’ll do my best to get you one. Shouldn’t be a big deal.

Come and get your free gmail invitation today…
I received a few more gmail invites so if anyone is interested you can contact me with a request. Please do not ask for invitations using the comments below, but through the contact form only.

eCommerceTimes have an article about Google’s new SMS service.
Google’s short message service (SMS) is accessible immediately to beta testers. The service will enable users of mobile phones and other handheld devices to send text message queries and receive phone book listings, dictionary definitions, prices and other information.
Too bad it does’t have more details.

Icons that present a websites logo is nothing new, they actually exist since Internet Explorer 5.0 for favorites. Mozilla have embraced the idea and now you see the icon not only in bookmarks but also in the navigation bar and the tabs headline. What it’s does is associate a particular icon with your website.
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Members of the Bits of Freedom group conducted a test to see how much it would take for a service provider to take down a website hosting public domain material. They signed up with 10 providers and put online a work by Duthc author Multatuli, who died over 100 years ago. They stated that the
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Brian Dear wrote a nice peice about the future of inter-personal trading or the post-eBay electronic market.
I qoute: I think it’s time for eBay to consider that the long-awaited two-guys-in-a-garage “next eBay” may be here sooner than they care to think.
The full story here

This is a very partial list of the documents I had to read this week. Why had to read? Because under different circumstances (like not working, or living in the real technology world) I would never read these documents or use this application.
IPSec Tunneling with ISA Server
Building Secure Web Services with Microsoft SOAP
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There are many programmers out there optimizing and adding new features to the open source Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. One of the noticeable ones is this one. Check it out and have fun.

I’ve reached the Remote User Authentication in Libraries resource page when I was researching for some answers regarding Squid configuration (details forthcoming). This page, however, have much more than that. The page is divided to sections such as: Database Vendor Authentication Info, University Authentication Projects , Proxy Servers and Authentication, Microsoft Internet Information Server
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