It appears the RIAA is winning their fight on p2p. LimeWire will start requring licenses be placed with any file that is shared. If you have your own file you’d like to share, you must aquire one from CreativeCommons. Well, does this not affect the whole idea of a non-centralized server system?
Again, those who know [...]
Some of you might notice that you’ve installed a new version of Firefox; but an existing plugin that you love, no longer supported by its owner, no longer works! Have no fear, here’s what you do…
Please note, some extensions may be broken during a new release and the only way to fix it is [...]
Found another great program! Windows - DOS based only, better yet non-GUI; and free! It extends netstat to provide you a list of all open ports, with the number, type (tcp/udp), and application that’s bound to it. It’s called Fport. A sample of mine is:
C:\>fport
FPort v2.0 - TCP/IP Process to Port Mapper
Copyright 2000 by [...]
There is something floating around infecting AIM applications. I noticed it when a random person, who hasn’t talked to me in a couple months, IMed 3x in a row about 10 minutes apart, “am so funny in this img http://LovetoSee.dynu.com/index.php”.
My roomate also told me he saw some suspicious activity as well. So, if you see [...]
Many of you know that I have always supported the original MySQL Control Center application which has now been depreciated and is no longer under development. However, today I was ging through a Freeware Files website and say this:
SQLyog
This application does everything the Control Center does, and will do. And it’s free. The only issue [...]
I’m always on the prowl for a good technology magazine, or website. I happened to find one just randomly browsing PHP websites, so-on-and-so-forth. Anyways, this months (IN)SECURE magazine is over 60 pages! Best thing, it’s free, and online (PDF file) — and has over 60 pages of articles, software reviews and misc. security topics. Cool.
http://www.insecuremag.com
FYI: [...]
So, lately we’ve been using a SSH connection for connecting into our campus servers, and network systems. I was like, hrm… how can I do this with my Windows machine? Well, it’s actually reallllly simple! Follow the tutorial at the following URL:
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
This will require you to download Cygwin, and OpenSSH. Cygwin “tools are ports of [...]
Most operating systems have what we call a ‘HOSTs’ file which is a simple look up table to define a domain-name to a specific ip address (which is what all internet connections have to uniquely identify them). Spyware, or virus’, often times exploit this file to ensure you are UNABLE to connect to major antivirus [...]
*moment of silence*
The United States is becoming more hypocritical each year that passes. An unclassified pentagon document was released yesterday, 9/10/2005, that would change US military policy to allow field commanders to use nuclear capabilities to destroy targets that may pose an imminent threat of WMD or biological weapons as a pre-emptive action. Yet, we ask other [...]