Archive for October, 2008
Irssi: A review
Do you use IRC? Are you a Linux user? If you answered yes to these questions then; you need to know about Irssi. Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for Linux. It is highly configurable with the use of themes, alias’ and scripts. Being a Linux user, you will easily get used to [...]
“It’s worse than stupidity”
That is what Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, thinks of cloud computing. Cloud computing is a term given to IT power that is delivered over the internet when you need it rather than being drawn from a desktop computer. And it has gained currency [...]
Pros and cons of OpenID
At this point, the news is so good. A study was performed by Yahoo and the nine users who considered themselves to be moderately Internet savvy; was confused. They did not understand multiple ways to log in. Confused by the fact that there is no place for a password.
The Pros, it is convenient not [...]
There is hope for geeky guys
According to a study done by Elon University, NC.
Each man was ranked based on an IQ test. Each woman watched the video and was asked to rate the men in four categories with respect to possible short term and long term relationships. The findings showed that both inteligence and creativity predicted mate appeal across mating [...]
Coffee and a command line
For the record I am an avid Linux fanatic. I love my terminal. My GUI has a place and I like eye candy. But the terminal; there is nothing to take its place. The command line is a powerful place to work and one of the fastest. It remembers what you have done and gives [...]
Subscribes
Be Social
Archives
ISC Security feed
- Infocon: greenMicrosoft EMETv2 released […]
- Microsoft EMETv2 released, (Thu, Sep 2nd)Today, Microsoft released a new version of their Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. ...(more)... […]
- SDF, please!, (Thu, Sep 2nd)We're under a targeted malware attack!, a friend of mine yelled into the phone. We ...(more)... […]
- Month of Undisclosed 0-day Bugs, (Wed, Sep 1st)As a heads up, the Exploit Database (exploit-db.com) is publish a month of undisclosed 0day bugs fro ...(more)... […]
- Microsoft issues updates to sysinternals ProcDump and Process Monitor: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2010/08/30/updates-procdump-process-monitor-and-a-new-mark-s-blog-post.aspx, (Wed, Sep 1st)...(more)... […]
- VMWARE releases 2 security advisories for ESX Service Console: http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000103.html and http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000104.html, (Wed, Sep 1st)...(more)... […]
- Interesting PHP injection, (Tue, Aug 31st)PHP injection attacks have become increasingly popular lately. If you look at your web server logs I ...(more)... […]
- Abandoned free email accounts, (Sun, Aug 29th)Mark wrote in with an observation that abandoned free email accounts (such as those of hotmail, yaho ...(more)... […]
- Apple QuickTime potential vulnerability/backdoor, (Mon, Aug 30th)A vulnerability/backdoor in Apple Quicktime has been announced, and we are keeping an eye on it. Ch ...(more)... […]
- New poll on mobile device security http://isc.sans.edu/poll.html, (Mon, Aug 30th)...(more)... […]
- Infocon: green
Tags
- "operating systems" apps Blog chat client command line commands Computers design desktop Development fluxbox Geeks gentoo government Hardware how to Internet IRC Linux management network networking News package personal politics program prostitution review security server servers social network SSH systems taxes terminal text Tips Top 10 Tutorials twitter web wondow managers


