Website tweaks.

Added a imagemap to the website title picture that will take you back to the home page when it is clicked, a lot of other websites have this and it is about time I added one to make navigation of the website much easier and quicker. I created it with the Gimp, which includes an … Read more

A look ahead at new Microsoft Technology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWFivMjJG0&feature=player_embedded. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/26/1653250/Microsoft-Shows-Off-Radical-New-UI-Could-Be-Used-In-Windows-8#comments. This video displays some of Microsoft’s new innovations like the surface computing and the new bubble interface for Windows 8. I am not sure about the bubble interface as I can not see where the start menu is and it takes up more screen real estate than rectangular or square windows. Maybe the … Read more

‘Rubber Stamp’: Full Julian Assange speech after extradition ruling.

The founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, will be sent to Sweden to face sex crime charges. A London Court has just ruled that Stockholm’s extradition bid has been successful. Lawyers for Assange have a week to appeal Thursday’s decision. Speaking to reporters outside the court in London, Assange said he would appeal … Read more

Life in the Universe.

Just watching the Star Trek Next Generation episode where the Enterprise was doing a propulsion experiment and they were sent through space 2,700,000 light years to another galaxy. That is the best episode of Star Trek TNG I think, apart from the one where they free the gigantic pure energy jellyfish and it is entwining … Read more

WordPress on TV. (Home and Away.)

Sure I would hardly watch a show like this, but the storyline involving the Bra boys and their fight with the Lifeguards was just too compelling, but this screen capture shows the character watching a video they have posted into their blog, but I am not sure that you can actually watch a video in … Read more

German government switching back to Windows.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/No-more-desktop-Linux-systems-in-the-German-Foreign-Office-1191122.html “The German government has confirmed that the German Foreign Office is to switch back to Windows desktop systems. The Foreign Office started migrating its servers to Linux in 2001 and since 2005 has also used open source software such as Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice on its desktop systems. The government’s response to the SPD’s … Read more

New Private enterprise mission to the moon.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/asd/2011/02/08/01.xml&headline=SpaceX%20Lands%20Contract%20To%20Fly%20To%20Moon&channel=space Quoting from the website. By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL— Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off company, has signed a launch services contract with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) for a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a lander, small rover and up to about 240 lb. of payload to the surface of the Moon, … Read more

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars/2 This article is a fascinating description of the HB Gary hack that enabled Anonymous to crack into a server machine and eventually deface a website. HBGary and HBGary Federal position themselves as experts in computer security. The companies offer both software and services to both the public and private sectors. On the software side, … Read more

Computer virus cripples triple 0 system.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/virus-cripples-triple-0-system/story-e6frf7l6-1226005527274 A computer virus has crippled a dispatch system at a triple 0 call centre, forcing ambulance operators to take down details of callers using pen and paper, which is a joke in 2011. The system was 10 years old and undoubtedly would be running Windows XP a release of Windows that is 10 years … Read more

Windows XP needs replacing. This is a fact.

Windows XP wallpaper. I am writing this post about the Windows XP operating system we all know and hate. I can not believe it is still used in 2011. Microsoft should release a newer and better operating system that is more reliable than this horrible concoction that is prone to file corruption and other misdemeanours. … Read more

Sony PS3 jailbreak hack.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0433217/Sony-Lawyers-Expand-Dragnet-Targeting-Anybody-Posting-PS3-Hack#comments erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D pub: C2 D4 AA … Read more

Gimp in Fedora Core 14.

The best advance in desktop usage in Fedora Core 14 is that the Gimp now can layer the image window over the tool palettes when using it in KDE. This is better than in OpenSuse and Ubuntu where the tool palettes are always layered over the image editing window and get in the way which … Read more

Website tweaked.

I have been doing some house cleaning on the website, I fixed up the css a bit and tweaked the layout of the website to make it look a bit better as well as adding a new titlepic. I hope you like it. and when you visit http://www.securitronlinux.com/linux there is a proper html page there … Read more

Space colonization in the year 10 trillion.

Space colonization in the year 10 trillion I watched an interesting documentary about life in the future and they were talking about how humans would survive in the distant future trying to avoid entropy, or the heat death of the Universe. They ended up with space stations in very close orbit around a white dwarf … Read more