The Newton Virus

In the begining viruses were art, later they evolved and became weapons of mass destruction. Now, the guys over at Troika deceid to get back in time and start over by introducing “The Newton Virus” for the Mac. Newton has only one goal and that is to make you go “WOW”. See for yourself. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJQ5085kSo[/youtube] No data was harm in the making of this video. Source: Troika

2008-03-28 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Torrentspy shuts down

Torrentpy, once the most popular torrent site on the net has finally decided to shut it’s doors and pack up permanently. Why? Well as usual MPAA is the culprit, 2 years of battling the the MPAA proved to be too much for Justin Bundell, the fonder of Torrentspy. “We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the TorrentSpy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.â€? ...

2008-03-27 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

WordPress 2.5 RC2 Released

WordPress 2.5 missed it’s initial release date but not for a bad reason. There’s quite a bit of work being put into the new version especially in the dashboard area. The editor is receiving a much needed face lift and feature boost. The media manager now supports multiple uploads like flickr and support for embedding videos is being added as a standard feature. Other new features include a image gallery, faster load times, gravatar support, one-click plugin upgrades, full text feeds and improved tags management. ...

2008-03-27 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Linux Commands: tee

Not many people I know use the tee command but I find it quite useful. I tend to use it quite often in my scripts actually. So what does it do? The tee command has the ability to take the standard input and redirected it to multiple outputs. For example, the ls command would normally just return file names on your screen but what if you also need to keep a log of those file names in a text file. ...

2008-03-26 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Firefox 2.0.0.13 released

Firefox 2.0.0.13 has just been released. It fixes a few security issues. XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups) Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect 2008-17 Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13) JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution If the auto update does not work for you, download the latest Firefox. Source: Mozilla | Mozilla Security Advisories

2008-03-26 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan