There’s a screenshot that’s been sitting on my desktop for a rather long time now, and it’s as scary as it is interesting.
Facebook recently conducted a poll which showed up on the homepage newsfeed, and asked Facebook members just how exactly did they think Facebook’s “friend finder” worked when it prompted them for their email [...]
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Disturbing Stats About Facebook Users & Security
Published by August 13th, 2008 in Blogosphere, Hacking, Privacy, Programming, Security 2 CommentsThis Is Your Internet On Bandwidth Meters
Published by August 5th, 2008 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk 0 CommentsThis is your internet:
And this is your internet on drugs bandwidth meters:
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Possible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated)
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Google, Hacking, Privacy, Security 8 CommentsGmail may have a serious security vulnerability that can result in the leaking of sensitive private information randomly to people you don’t know, haven’t contacted, and have nothing to do with.
It would seem that between the way Gmail saves and retrieves sessions, existing sessions are authenticated, and views are cached there are one or more [...]
People are either cut out to be programmers or they’re not. How to know, what to do if you’re not, and where to go from there is a huge issue and not the subject of discussion. But one of the signs of a good programmer is good programming instincts. The right instincts can save hours [...]
Preying on the Handicapped and Giving Geeks a Bad Name
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Blogosphere, Hacking, Security 8 CommentsWhen you’ve practically lived online day-in, day-out for the past decade or so you tend to develop a thick skin to the malevolent things that tend to happen every once in a while. But there are some things that you’d never expect, not once in a million years; they strike a nerve and they really [...]
WordPress, PerformancePress, and GSoC 2008
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software 7 CommentsFor those of you that haven’t yet heard, WordPress is once-more taking part in the Google Summer of Code. Google Summer of Code 2008 is a Google-sponsored program where college students are encouraged to contribute to their favorite open-source projects for a summer, and in exchange both they and their mentors receive some monetary compensation/motivation [...]
All the hardware manufacturers currently on the market boast and brag about not using anything other than the latest solid-core capacitors on their high-end motherboards. Perhaps the most notable of these is Gigabyte, which has been touting its “Ultra-Durable” brand of capacitors more than any other manufacturer. According to Gigabyte, their capacitors will last up [...]
Repeat after me: “Hectuple is not a real word. There is no such thing as a hectuple.”
NeoSmart user David Q. wrote in to let us know that our usage of the word “hectuple” on the EasyBCD download page to refer to a 7-entry multi-boot environment is, quite frankly, wrong:
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isoHunt’s Extended “Temporary Downtime” From Certain Regions
Published by February 24th, 2008 in Blogosphere 6 CommentsFor the past week or so (what are a couple of 12-hour periods here or there between friends?) isoHunt has been “sick” when accessed from certain regions - but perfectly fine from others.
At the moment, users are being redirected to a tongue-in-cheek “isoHunt is Sick” page, letting them know that isoHunt’s hardware and software services [...]
Why I Joined Habari, and What It’s All About
Published by January 20th, 2007 in Blogosphere, Programming, Reviews, Software 14 CommentsPeople have been bombarding my email asking me questions about Habari, and most importantly, why I joined it. I wasn’t planning on blogging about any of this until I officially became a committer in the Habari project, but after reading this post, I feel the need to share my reasons.
I’ve been a loyal contributor the [...]
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