July 2005
12 posts
Windows Vista
Windows Vista (AKA Longhorn) is the only version of Microsoft Windows I have ever looked forward too. Though I have no intention of being among it’s early adopters for the obvious reason (the usual avalanche of major BUGS) it certainly has an interesting feature set and looks like a major step forward for Microsoft (unlike for example Windows NT to 2K to XP which were, arguably, minor steps...
Jul 30th
GDS
Google Desktop Search and the plugins I use: Archive Files Crawler (Archive files) MSHelp2 Crawler (MSHelp2 HxS files) GDS Real Media Indexer by Siva Jawaji (Indexes Real Media (.RM) files) Larry’s Any Text File Indexer 1.00 by Larry Gadea (Index any file extension specified as plaintext) Larry’s Help File Indexer 1.00 by Larry Gadea (Indexes CHM/CHW files) Larry’s...
Jul 30th
Troops
Troops is an hilarious Star Wars spoof of Cops. While being filmed for the hit Imperial TV show TROOPS, Stormtroopers from the infamous Black Sheep Squadron on patrol run into some very familiar characters.
Jul 30th
Netscape
I installed Netscape Browser 8.0 and was positively suprised by it. It’s basically Firefox with some additional (mostly useless) features like weather&news. But the real nice feature is being able to switch between the firefox rendering engine and internet explorer’s rendering engine. All the additional features make netscape a bit more complicated to configure. Netscape has become...
Jul 30th
Almost Random Noise
Some links I got from people today: A Gamer’s Manifesto - to which i subscribe almost entirelly (i think low ammo in RE is ok but some things in God of War were a bit too hard). More stuff making fun of WoW. Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment - How many of us have wished they could beat spammers in the head repeatedly? Guess someone’s wish came true. Either that...
Jul 25th
Tor
Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy...
Jul 25th
God of War
Archspace is down so this weekend I played a lot of God of War. This is the first game to live up to it’s hype in quite a while. The game is indeed awsome. An epic struggle of a deeply disturbed man to kill a god, the God of War Ares. Kratos who was once trained by Ares to serve him now endevours to kill his former master. This game feels like Devil May Cry meets Tomb Raider. You kill...
Jul 20th
Twelve Simple Steps to Protect Your Computer
Abe Usher of Sharp Ideas wrote a basic guide to protecting a PC along the lines of my “How To Keep Your Computer Spyware Free”. Richard Bejtlich also gave some tips in a recent post. Though “Don’t run Windows” is possibly a bit extreme and unrealistic.
Jul 20th
The End of The Full Disclosure Debate
For a very long time now, every few months or so, someone starts another debate about full disclosure. Fortunately, that debate has been rendered academic at best by the refining of binary reverse engineering. I got this link from Thomas Ptacek’s blog a while ago but I only bothered to make this post now. Additional Resources: SABRE Security Publications Comparing Binaries With Graph...
Jul 13th
Schizos
Great timing: Bombs go off in the UK, it’s all over the news and someone finds this the perfect time to send links to something like this. It’s a distasteful flash animation which claims that somehow it wasn’t flight 77 that crashed into the pentagon on 9/11. With a simple google search I easily found a webpage that debunks those claims. There are probably better ones out there...
Jul 7th
Is this the end for Software Patents in Europe?
Relax just sent me this link: EU Parliament bins software patent bill I’m extremelly happy about this but I doubt it will be the end of the struggle to keep Europe a sofware patent free zone.
Jul 6th
Javascript Troubles
More than 2 weeks ago javascript in IE explorer stopped working in my Windows XP SP2 the only other incovinient apart from having to play Archspace in firefox was the fact that windows search also stopped working. I found both the fix and the cause here: Fix: Start->run regsvr32 urlmon.dll regsvr32 jscript.dll regsvr32 wshom.ocx Cause: “Problem arose as I tried using Kaspersky...
Jul 6th