January 2012
25 posts
Conciousmess: Captain Spaaaamm!!!! →
chaumurky:
My mother come out with these things sometimes, wrangling English into new and interesting forms.
* Quoting a spammers email at me, purporting to be from a “Captain interested in investment” (upgrade on the old Oceanographers/Paypal scam then..)
“This Captain Spam says..”
LOL!! I love this, I NEED to make a pic, an evil Rolex-watch flogging, viagra-glugging, mail order “bride”,...
What I Think About HUD
Mark Shuttleworth has just blogged about a new way to use applications menu.
Called Head-Up Display, or HUD, this new feature will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications. HUD is a new means of invoking commands where users can search and launch menu commands from a console. It has a smart mechanism that prioritizes frequently used commands in list. Every application that support Ubuntu...
Black Cat Hacks: Keylogger for Ubuntu... →
blackcathacker:
So what do you think about keylogger ? is it really illegal to monitor someone’s keystrokes (of course without permission, otherwise there will be no problem at all – In that case either the user won’t use the system or they don’t care!) ? it depends! (it can be called legal if you are not using…
Another Moronic Bill to Kill Internet Privacy
Senator Lamar Smith is at it again! First it was SOPA. Then it was PIPA. Now it’s “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011” (PCIPA, anyone?). It’s H.R. 1981 and it is poised to have even more dire consequences than SOPA or PIPA ever had the potential to have!
At issue is how to catch child pornographers. It’s too hard now, say the bill’s...
Black Cat Hacks: Is Your Online Password Among... →
blackcathacker:
SplashData, a well-known provider of password management applications, just released its latest list of the 25 worst passwords for online security. Top of the list: “password.” Duh…
Most passwords are no better than a passkey.
Ok wait… What if I switch the “o” to a zero making it…
Get Yourself a Great Password
In this previous article, I shared an infographic with dozens of great tips on how to create a secure password.
“But I’m not that imaginative!” some people complain. Actually everyone I know who read my article and looked at the infographic complained that way.
So I decided to see how serious the lack of secure passwords really was. I started polling people, randomly, asking...
Proxy Glider... now with more COMMENTS!
Below each post on the Proxy Glider is a comment box.
Enjoy!
A Technical Examination of SOPA and PIPA
SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
d20plus1:
mooojo:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 ...
An Epic Star Wars Saga
When my wife Megan and I were visiting family down in FL, I introduced the Star Wars Saga RPG (a tabletop game my wife and I already play) to a young in-law named Brandon. This is the story of a small game that took on a life of its own.
Brandon took to the game and immediately wanted to play! So my wife helped him design a character and cajoled me into gamemastering a small game.
Her words...
The Five Best Wallpaper Sites →
And they are…
Wallbase
InterfaceLift
SimpleDesktops
DeviantArt
Digital Blasphemy
Choosing a Secure Password Infographic
We always enjoy a useful infographic, and there are few things quite as important as choosing a strong password, at least in the area of online security. If you’re looking to beef up your passwords, here are plenty of great tips consolidated into one great image.
10 Immutable Laws of Security Administration →
Law #1: Nobody believes anything bad can happen to them, until it does. Law #2: Security only works if the secure way also happens to be the easy way. Law #3: If you don’t keep up with security fixes, your network won’t be yours for long. Law #4: It doesn’t do much good to install security fixes on a computer that was never secured to begin with. Law #5: Eternal vigilance is the...
Ubuntu Implants
In this previous post I blogged about how “Ubuntu needed implants to stay attractive.”
A few people have wondered what I meant by that, so I decided to share my Ubuntu installation list with you. This is what I do on every install of Ubuntu (currently) to make Ubuntu feel right.
I almost exclusively use the CLI (Command Line Interface) of the Terminal to install packages and mods....
10 Immutable Laws of Security →
Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it’s not your computer anymore. Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it’s not your computer anymore. Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it’s not your computer anymore. Law #4: If you allow a bad guy to upload programs to your website,...
d20 + 1: My Love Life →
d20plus1:
Ubuntu, sweetheart, you were my first, and nothing can take that away. Oh, those were happy days in 8.04. We really hit it off. So well, as you know, that our relationship was long and, for the most part, happy. You were everything I could have wanted, and I spent almost every moment with you. Oh,…
Ubuntu, you are still my sweetheart. However, as you grew older I had to spring...
Black Cat Hacks: IT guy via Urban Dictionary →
blackcathacker:
1.IT Guy54 up, 21 down
A person who works in a small closet setting up computers and answering help requests all day with at least 3 of the following 5 symptoms… 1 - Uses Linux 2 - Believes other employees exists to serve him, not the other way around 3 - Has told the cofee holder joke to friends/family 4 - Has unhealthy hatred of Microsoft 5 - Smug beyond belief
Can Soapy erase SOPA?
So let’s hypothesize that SOPA passes, an action that would have worldwide repercussions across thousands of websites including Google, Reddit, deviantART, Facebook, and YouTube (to mention only a few giants that could be shut down or scaled back radically). That’s a terrifying prospect for users, content creators and, let’s be honest, investors who have poured billions into...
February 2009
4 posts
Google Labs Adds Multiple Inboxes →
Gmail Labs has implemented a feature that saves a lot of time by monitoring important messages that may end up getting filtered away. Starting today, you can try Multiple Inboxes, a Labs experiment which makes it possible to have more than one ‘inbox’ in your default Gmail view.
Google Translate Adds Seven New Languages!
Google has brought seven new languages to its Google Translate service. This ups the total number of languages to 41.
These added languages will ease communication difficulties for at least 151 million people.
According to the company, Albanian (9-13 million speakers), Estonian (1.1 million speakers), Galician (3-4 million speakers), Hungarian (15 million speakers), Maltese (around 400,000...
Google Launches Offline Support, and Hotmail...
Yesterday, Google launched offline support for Gmail, a feature that’s been long anticipated by the service’s users. The feature is being gradually rolled out to UK and U.S. users and will be available via the Labs area of Gmail’s Settings page.
Using Google’s Gears platform, the new capability enables users to maintain a local cache of messages which is kept synchronised with Gmail’s servers...
Almost Free Heat! →
This is an impressive use of soda cans to create a DIY solar panel to create nearly limitless heat for an enclosed building (as long as the sun is up).
It only takes an estimated 50 soda cans to heat a 1000 square foot building!