Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Administration
Sorry for the typical and tredy “myspace pic” above. This is an article from Wired Magazine. It might be the largest “security breach” in awhile but what on earth would anyone do with 17gb of random Myspace teenagers?
A 17-gigabyte file purporting to contain more than half a million images lifted from private MySpace profiles has [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Administration
This is how the Government secures your ballots. WOW. This is a must see.
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Administration
Firefox 3 has support for Animated PNG:
One of many new features added to Firefox 3 is the support of a new file format, the Animated PNG! Browsers have supported animated GIFs for more than a decade, but the GIF image format has a number of limitations and is overdue for replacement. The PNG image [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Administration
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel 2.6.24 has just been released. Release notes below:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/24/407
Date Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:17:19 -0800 (PST)
From Linus Torvalds
Subject Linux 2.6.24
The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for
the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of)
LCA in Melbourne, so let’s hope it’s [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Administration
A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is a time period when registrars can delete a domain at no cost, but in this time [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Administration
This is for the Firefox browser with Greasemonkey installed. Free Greasemonkey user script Google Account Multi-Login adds a simple drop-down menu to Google pages (including Gmail) for quick switching between your different user accounts. Just install the script, reload the page, and you can start adding your Google accounts to the drop-down. It’s simple to [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Administration
Here’s a frightening but real proposition: if you are caught breaking certain traffic laws, not only do police have the right to search you—they can go through all your electronic data as well—your text messages, call histories, browsing history, downloaded emails and photos. In a recent academic paper, South Texas Assistant Professor Adam Gershowitz explains [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Administration
LEGAL NOTICE
If you purchased a Treo 600 or a Treo 650 smartphone, you could be entitled to benefits under a class action settlement. A settlement of a class action lawsuit affects you if you purchased, in the United States, a new Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone for your own use and not for resale. [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Administration
Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Administration
For the newbs who don’t know about “anonymous”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxWgRY1I_SI
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Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Administration
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Administration
Greasemonkey script MySpace custom style remover does just what it says - remove the custom styles from MySpace pages, leaving every page with MySpace’s default style.
Whether you love or hate MySpace, there’s a good chance you’ve had to use it every now and then (maybe it’s how all your friends plan their social outings or [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2008 by Administration
$299.99 USD for a Playstation 3 looks like a steal. Rumors are floating around that this is becoming reality, and before the end of January 2008. Is it possible?
We contacted some of our insiders to get the latest scoop on this rumor and see if it had any fact behind it. We were skeptical, after [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2008 by Administration
I thought some people might benefit from a quick step by step guide to creating a Windows PE custom boot CD. This guide will get you as far as creating an ISO at the end, ready to be burnt with your CD burner software.
You will need a Windows XP SP2 CD, Windows PE and some [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Administration
If you have an AGI of $54,000 or less you can e-file your taxes for free, and use a program such as TurboTax or H&R Block.
1. go to http://www.irs.gov
2. you must find the program you want to use and click to it from the IRS website. if you just type in Turbotax (for example) into [...]
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