“Welcome to my page on how to make annoying web pages. Why would you want to make an annoying web page? Well because you are so jealous of the millions of others on the Internet you crazy Schlemiel!”
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How to make an Annoying Web Page
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Wmf kenties historian pahin turva-aukko
“F-Securen viruslaboratorion johtajan Mikko Hyppösen mukaan […] wmf-tiedostojen ominaisuus näyttää myös viittaavan siihen, että käytännössä kaikki Windows-versiot aina 15 vuoden takaiseen Windows 3.0 -versioon saakka ovat haavoittuvia. Kyseessä on siis laajin koskaan löydetty turva-aukko, joka vaivaa käytännössä kaikkia maailman satoja miljoonia Windows-käyttäjiä. Kun rikolliset löysivät aukon ennen tietoturvatahoja ja muuttivat sen nollapäivähyökkäykseksi, on kyseessä harvinaisen paha yhdistelmä.”
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10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006
“Here’s a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007.”
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Hard Drive Clock
“Have an old hard drive that no longer works? As long as it still spins up chances are you could build a clock out of your old hard drive! You will need some electronic knowledge, some common electronic components and a bit of patience.”A. Parekh via Juha
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Software for Starving Students
“The Software for Starving Students CD enhances the Windows and Mac desktop computing experiences by providing an easy way to install free, high-quality software titles via a user-friendly interface. It includes popular open source programs like Firefox and OpenOffice, intended to help students learn about and benefit from open source and free software programs. The SSS team put all the most commonly used free programs onto one CD to make it easier for students to install useful software (including fully-featured office suites, 3D graphic editors and much more) for free.”
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Temporary fix for the WMF vulnerability
“This week a new vulnerability was found in Windows […]. Microsoft will certainly come up with a thouroughly tested fix for it in the future, but meanwhile I developed a temporary fix – I badly needed it.
The fix does not remove any functionality from the system, all pictures will continue to be visible. […]
If for some reason the patch does not work for you, please uninstall it. […] I recommend you to uninstall this fix and use the official patch from Microsoft as soon as it is available.”
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Millennium Music iPod Trade
- “Drop off your CDs or ship them to us.
- We will review your CDs for physical quality and quality of title.
- Get your iPod!
trade CDs for iPods
1/2 GB Shuffle ($99 value) 45 CD trade 1 GB Shuffle ($149 value) 65 CD trade 2 GB Nano ($199 value) 85 CD trade 4 GB Nano ($249 value) 110 CD trade 30 GB iPod ($299 value) 130 CD trade 60 GB iPod ($399 value) 175 CD trade” -
Koepi's Xvid 1.1 binaries
“XviD-1.1.0 final build.
Changelog:
- {core}: Field interlaced decoding.
- {dshow}: Additional fourcc support.
- {vfw}: Small updates. […]
Finally, the 1.1.0-release is ready for prime-time! Only small fixes and changes were done compared to beta 2, but you might like the (a little bit) overhauled vfw-front-end.”
koepi.org via Juha
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New exploit blows by fully patched Windows XP systems
“We saw a new nasty exploit yesterday around 5:00 PM. […]
We have a number of sites that we have found with this exploit. Different sites download different spyware. We only had a handful of websites using this new exploit but now we are seeing many more using this to install bad stuff. […]
Folks, I’ve seen it with my own eyes and this is a really bad exploit. Be careful out there.”
Microsoft Security Advisory 912840 discusses a “Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine [which] Could Allow Remote Code Execution.”
F-Secure lists sites you should avoid until the vulnerability is patched.
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Quick tip: GIMP as Irfanview's external editor
If you’re using GIMP and Irfanview (in Windows), set up GIMP as your external editor in Irfanview’s Options, under ‘Misc 2’ tab by filling the “Set external viewer/editor” field with “C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\gimp-win-remote.exe gimp-2.2.exe” (not including the quotation marks, i.e. only fill in what is inside them). Change the version numbers if you’re using something other than GIMP 2.0 and Gimp-Win-Remote 2.2.
Now you can go directly from viewing an image in Irfanview to editing it in GIMP by selecting ‘Open with external editor’ from the File menu.