Daily Friction #235
install DropMyRights to get simple yet effective protection against malware, update your PuTTY to plug two security holes, get the new version of Trillian, discover a few USB thumb drive tricks, honor Ken Kutaragi, the father of PlayStation, learn how Google, Yahoo & Ask.com treat the “no follow” link attribute, and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
- Though many applications provide more-expansive security, DropMyRights gives you simple yet effective protection against malware by limiting user rights-and it works with any program.
- A new version of PuTTY is out, this one: PuTTY 0.60 Beta that fixes two security holes which can allow a malicious SFTP server to execute code of its choice on a PSCP or PSFTP client connecting to it.
- Trillian the most widely used multi-network chat client has a new version. Currently supports IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger. It supports all of the features you’ve come to expect from a good IM client, including but not limited to docking, multi-line edit boxes, buddy alerts, multiple connections to the same medium, a powerful skinning language, easy importing of your existing contacts, skinnable emoticons, logging, “global” away/invisible features, and a unified contact list.
Hardware
- Top 10: USB thumb drive tricks - Developers and road warriors have come up with all sorts of innovative techniques for putting these tiny roomy disks to good use.
Information
- Secretive Silicon Valley company, OptiSolar, builds largest solar farm - The site, near Sarnia in Ontario, Canada, will be enough to power between 10,000 and 15,000 homes on sunny days, drawing on a monstrous 40-megawatt capacity.
- Could black holes be portals to other universes? The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, but critics say it would also raise new problems, such as how the wormholes would form in the first place.
- PlayStation’s pop - The father of PlayStation, Ken Kutaragi, last week announced his intention to retire from his executive role at Sony Computer Entertainment.
Wed Development
- How Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute - There seems to be a common misconception in the webmaster and search engine marketing field that inbound links which use the ‘no follow’ attribute have no value to the site which they point towards.
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