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Jun 11
2010
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IPhone Users, yes! The Truth Hurts!Posted by admin in Untagged |
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Jun 11
2010
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IPhone Users, yes! The Truth Hurts!Posted by admin in Untagged |
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Jun 09
2010
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Netgear WG302 Firmware upgrade via TelnetPosted by admin in Untagged |
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/728
NOTE: Instead of using SolarWinds TFTP server i used TFTPd32(http://tftpd32.jounin.net/)
Part 1: Upgrade the Boot Loader Commands:

+Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:09:5b:74:f3:c5IP: 192.168.0.35/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Default server: 192.168.0.36, DNS server IP: 0.0.0.0RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]Red Hat certified release, version 1.92 - built 18:59:19, Sep 19 2003Platform: IXDP425 Development Platform (XScale)Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, Red Hat, Inc.RAM: 0x00000000-0x10000000, 0x0001f920-0x0ffd1000 availableFLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x50800000, 64 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.== Executing boot script in 2.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort^CRedBoot>
Part 2: To Upgrade the Firmware Using TFTP
1. Configure the IP address of your PC to 192.168.0.36. 2. If you do not have a TFTP server on your PC, install one now. (These are available, free, from such places as Solarwinds. You may download the software from http://support.solarwinds.net/updates/New-customerFree.) 3. Copy the WG302 firmware image: wg302_v4_1_8.rmt into the TFTP Root directory, such as c:TFTP-Root. 4. Rename the image to wg302.rmt. (If your TFTP server gives an error "ixp425.rmt not found" then you have a beta unit. For beta units rename "wg302.rmt" to ixp425.rmt.) 5. Connect your PC and the WG302 access point directly with a CAT5 Ethernet cable. 6. Start the TFTP server. (An example, showing Solarwinds start-up window, appears below.)

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Jun 04
2010
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Installing VFP 6 in Linux Mint 9 (Wine)Posted by admin in Untagged |
Installing VFP 6 in Linux Mint 9, using Wine of course.
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Jun 04
2010
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Mount Network Drives in Linux (Ubuntu/Mint)Posted by admin in Untagged |
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May 28
2010
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Chromium Web browser for Windows XpPosted by admin in web browser , open source , google , Chromium , chrome |
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
Thanks to Resinblade for the link.
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Feb 03
2010
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Wipe dalvik cache in Terminal, Andriod.Posted by admin in wipe , dalvik cache , cyanogenMod , clear , andriod |
*Root Required*
Open your Terminal of choice and type the following.
$su
#cd /system/sd/dalvik-cache
#rm *
#exit
$exit
Reboot phone.
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Oct 19
2009
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Coffee fights Cavity!Posted by admin in Untagged |
Well i never had 1 single cavity in my life. I guess i know now...
Trigonelline
Chemically, it's a molecule of niacin with a methyl group attached. It breaks down into pyridines, which give coffee its sweet, earthy taste and also prevent the tooth-eating bacterium Streptococcus mutans from attaching to your teeth. Coffee fights the Cavity Creeps
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-10/st_coffee
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Oct 12
2009
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Five ways banks rip YOU off!Posted by admin in Untagged |
Careless consumers share the blame for forking over $24 billion to banks in overdraft fees last year, but, as the NY Times points out, bank policies encourage these penalties.
(If you have over drafted with Wachovia/Wells Fargo, call customer service and ask them to waive your fees.)
Since 45% of U.S. banks rely on these funds to stay profitable, it's little surprise that they rig their banking practices to maximize the amount of overdrafts incurred.
Here are five rip-off techniques:
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Oct 02
2009
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Fake Antivirus. They are taking over!Posted by admin in malwarebytes , fake antivirus |
Is funny how i was just writing a report on this same topic on Fake Antivirus. Check out this article via Slahdot.org
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/01/1524258/Fake-Antivirus-Overwhelming-Scanners
Fake antivirus programs are multiplying at such a rate they could start to overwhelm the detection capabilities of signature-based scanners, the latest figures from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) have hinted.
Rogue or bogus programs passing themselves off as real antivirus software have been one of the malware themes of 2009, but the APWG's numbers for the first half of the year show that the organisation's members detected 485,000 samples, more than five times the total for the whole of 2008.
The reason for the growth in numbers is what is known in technical terminology as ‘polymorphism', an old defence technique which involves changing the binary checksum of every copy (or download) of a piece of malware. This makes it much more difficult for antivirus programs to detect the programs.
"The primary reason for the creation of so many variants is to avoid signature-based detection by legitimate antivirus programs," says PandaLabs' director and APWG member, Luis Corrons in the report. "The use of behavioural analysis is of limited use in this type of malware because the programs themselves do not act maliciously on computers, other than displaying false information."
The figures themselves are the good news because each statistic is, by definition, a detected sample. But these are likely to be only a percentage of the true picture. Fake antivirus software can be hard to catch using heuristics because they are often willingly installed by users who think the programs to be genuine, bypassing systems such as Vista's User Account Control (UAC)
http://news.techworld.com/security/3203072/fake-antivirus-overwhelming-scanners/
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Sep 23
2009
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Why I don't use MySpace or Facebook!Posted by admin in social networks , privacy , myspace.com , facebook.com |
Technical Analysis by Peter Eckersley
3rd party advertising and tracking firms are ubiquitous on the modern web. When you visit a webpage, there's a good chance that it contains tiny images or invisible JavaScript that exists for the sole purpose of tracking and recording your browsing habits. This sort of tracking is performed by many dozens of different firms. In this post, we're going to look at how this tracking occurs, and how it is being combined with data from accounts on social networking sites to build extensive, identified profiles of your online activity.

(in this screenshot, NoScript is being used to identify the third parties whose code is embedded in the page)
Each of these tracking companies can track you over multiple different websites, effectively following you as you browse the web. They use either cookies, or hard-to-delete "super cookies", or other means, to link their records of each new page they see you visit to their records of all the pages you've visited in the previous minutes, months and years. The widespread presence of 3rd party web bugs and tracking scripts on a large proportion of the sites on the Web means that these companies can build up a long term profile of most of the things we do with our web browsers.
A recent research paper by Balachander Krishnamurthy and Craig Wills shows that social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace are giving the hungry cloud of tracking companies an easy way to add your name, lists of friends, and other profile information to the records they already keep on you.
The main theme of the paper is that when you log in to a social networking site, the social network includes advertising and tracking code in such a way that the 3rd party can see which account on the social network is yours. They can then just go to your profile page, record its contents, and add them to their file. Of the 12 social networks surveyed in the paper, only one (Orkut) didn't leak any personally identifying information to 3rd parties.
There are some interesting technical details in how the social networking sites leak this data. In some cases, the leakage may be unintentional, but in others, there is clever and surreptitious anti-privacy engineering at work.
A second and slightly more revealing method that some social networks use to leak personal information is through URL/URI parameters for the 3rd party content. One example from the paper is LiveJournal handing a user's gender, age, country and language to an advertiser:
GET /track/?...&fb_sig_time=1236041837.3573&(In this example, a Facebook app is sending the user's facebook user ID and signin time to to adtracker.socialmedia.com)
fb_sig_user=123456789&...
Host: adtracker.socialmedia.com
Referer: http://apps.facebook.com/kick_ass/...
The third and most surprising method for leaking personal information is to alias 3rd party tracking servers into the host site's domain name in such a way that the 3rd party can see the host site's cookies, in violation of the same origin policy. Here's an examples:
GET /st?ad_type=iframe&age=29&gender=M&e=&zip=11301&...(ad.hi5.com is actually ad.yieldmanager.com, and it's receiving different bits of personal information via both the URL and the hi5.com cookie which the same origin policy wouldn't have allowed it to have)
Host: ad.hi5.com
Referer: http://www.hi5.com/friend/profile/displaySameProfile.do?userid=123456789
Cookie: LoginInfo=M_AD_MI_MS|US_0_11301; Userid=123456789;Email=jdoe@email.com;
Unfortunately, many of the steps above are quite difficult to follow, and we're fearful that the vast majority of Internet users will continue to be tracked by dozens of companies — companies they've never heard of, companies they have no relationship with, companies they would never choose to trust with their most private thoughts and reading habits.
It isn't going to be easy to fix this mess. On the technical side, all of this tracking follows from the design of the Web as an interactive hypertext system, combined with the fact that so many websites are willing to assist advertisers in tracking their visitors. Browsers could be altered to make them harder to track, but great care and clever design will be required to achieve that without undermining the virtues of interactive hypertext in the first place. It's not clear that anyone has found the right way to do that yet.
On the legal side, it's clear that the current U.S. privacy regime isn't working: behavioral tracking companies can put whatever they want in the fine print of their privacy policies, and few of the visitors to CareerBuilder or any other website will ever realize that the trackers are there, let alone read their policies. It's time we found legal rules to ensure that people actually know when their privacy is part of the price they pay to visit a site.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks
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