Author: Yeri Tiete
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Multiple Memory Access Vulnerabilities Linux Kernel
Well, it had to happen… Yesterday evening two of our linux boxes were exploited. I had to try it out for myself; and yes, it really does work. 😐 Booted up my Ubuntu in Parallels, installed build-essential & ran that program! sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc what-ever-the-file-name-is.c ./a.out This is what it looks like: My-oh-my……
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EyeTV + ffmpegX = iMovie
EyeTV is a cool application that let’s you watch TV on your Mac. I happen to have the “lite” version, because it was significantly cheaper than the other version. The cool thing is, you can easily record films or TV episodes with it, but with this version, there is no way to export it to…
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MagSafe car adapter
As you probably know, the MagSafe adapter is a great invention. Someone trips over your power cord, and the connector pops off. And if you think “well, cool, but won’t happen, a normal connector won’t break your notebook” you’re very wrong. A few months ago, at school, during courses, someone tripped over my Powerbook’s power…
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Parallels + Ubuntu
I finally got a reply from the Parallels support team. After using the alternate Parallels installer it finally works again! Even after rebooting Mac! joy Before trying to run Vista/Bootcamp through Parallels again, I’m waiting till the end of my exams (Thursday). Don’t want to blow up my Windows install again when I’m in desperate…
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User-Agent ……/1.0
While checking the logs of one of my websites I noticed something rather weird. Some person (65.210.123.237) with User-Agent/browser “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; ……/1.0 )” was downloading _all_ files from my website. Totally ignoring robots.txt and requesting pages without providing a referral. This seemed quite odd and didn’t seem to be a decent/real…
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CoD4
I recently got my hands on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I must honestly say I really enjoyed the singleplayer. Great action, nice graphics, damn exciting maps, cool effects, nice movies, cool story, … The only big downside was how short it was. After not even 2 days (so, around 4-5 hours of gaming)…
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That ’70s Show
From the (very) few things I watch on TV, I believe it’s That ’70s Show I enjoy most. It’s one of the only (comedy) shows I can just keep watching to. Yes, 24 and Lost aren’t too bad either (and, well, it’s not really comedy, is it?), but the last seasons have been going downwards…
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School exams
Whilst reading over “Chapter I: The Internet” in my Hypermedia course; I couldn’t help noticing a few things. I quote: All IP’s of local PC’s in a local network begin with “192.168” DNS is a service on the internet that links hard to remember IP’s to easy to remember domain names A PC with a…
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Mac OS X > Windows
When surfing the web, I came upon an old site we (read: Rootspirit) used to host. Nick, one of the posters, wrote an article I totally agree with. It really reflects why I’m using Mac instead of Windows now. Read about it here (Dutch), or here (Google translated, far from understandable)