The computers belonging to the Prime Minister Julia Gillard have been compromised in a coordinated cyber-attack by Chinese terrorist hackers. This on top of the incident where all Internet traffic for a time was re-routed through China allowing Chinese authorities to sort through sensitive western data. The computers that were cracked into had very simple … Read more
LEONARD NIMOY SINGS BILBO BAGGINS by super8monsters Leonard Nimoy who played the Vulcan character Spock in the Star Trek series is 80 years young today, Happy Birthday! He will always be remembered for this Spock character even though he had a singing career and hosted shows about ancient mysteries as well. He was a great … Read more
I have just finished watching this incredible movie from the early days of cinema. the story of engineers from Europe and America that build a tunnel under the ocean from London to New York and the engineering challenges and relationships that are strained along the way. The views of the tunnel and the high speed … Read more
“Some students from the Cockrell School of Engineering in Austin, Texas have built, developed, launched, and operated two historic satellites. The FASTRAC satellites make up the first small-scale satellite system which is composed of two separate spacecraft that can communicate to each other. On March 22, the single FASTRAC satellite successfully separated into two smaller … Read more
I have got the WIFI working on my laptop with FreeBSD, I am using the Broadcom integrated WIFI adapter in my laptop and it is working like a charm. I had to install the Broadcom firmware from ports, but now it is working perfectly. I tried a USB Belkin adapter, but that would re-boot the … Read more
Slashdot.org NASA are researching a radical new radiation shielding technology for their spaceships, they must be wanting this for a manned mission to Mars, or going back to the moon. The International Space Station uses water as a shield against radiation and it is also used in the pools where spent nuclear fuel rods are … Read more
http://www.dailytech.com/Firefox+4+Finally+Released+Brings+Windows+XP+GPU+Rendering+Support/article21179.htm http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/251910,mozilla-firefox-4-officially-available-to-download.aspx Firefox 4.0 has been released with GPU acceleration support and a host of new features. Read more about this at the link above. This browser is 4 months late and I can only hope it can beat Internet Explorer 9.0 and Chrome 10 as the best browser. The Firefox browser has always been … Read more
My installation of FreeBSD 8.2 is still going very well indeed, I am have installed Eterm, so that I can set a wallpaper with Esetroot and I am playing mp3 music right now with xmms whilst I write this post. The bug in Linux where the headphone audio is muted and inaudible on a laptop … Read more
I have just completed the set up of FreeBSD 8.2 on my Asus A3H laptop and it is working better than Linux! When I am playing an MP3 with xmms, I can plug in earphones and still hear the music, with Ubuntu and every other distribution I have tried even Linux Mint 10, it would … Read more
The update to Opensuse 11.4 is all done, I had to download 1.89 Gigabytes of data, but it was worth it to update all of my software at once and reboot into the all new and improved software I now have. There are a couple of bugs with wine, but other than that it works … Read more
Just running the update to OpenSuse 11.4, I can not wait until the installation is finished and I can use my newly updated operating system. OpenSuse 11.4 uses kernel 2.6.37.1 which will include many new and interesting features for sure. it had to download 1.89 Gigabytes of data, but that is worth it to be … Read more
Still using Debian GNU/Linux and very impressed with how well it works as compared to Linux Mint and Ubuntu. The new Ubuntu, as I have said before does not impress me and I will stick with Debian. The new graphical installer was easy to use even though my USB mouse would not work for some … Read more
I just discovered a very cool package that is available for the Debian Linux distribution, the GWorkspace desktop, the GNU Workspace manager. This depicted in the screenshot to the right is an interesting desktop that comes with a file manager and when loaded with Window Maker gives you a fast desktop and you can create … Read more
“In an experiment, 41% of Facebook users were willing to divulge highly personal information to a complete stranger. This according to IT security firm Sophos, which invited 200 randomly selected Facebookers to befriend a bogus Facebook user named ‘Freddi Staur’ (an anagram of ‘ID Fraudster’). Of those queried, 87 responded to the invitation, among them … Read more
A nuclear reactor in Japan has exploded after losing power and therefore losing cooling water that is pumped into the reactor to cool the nuclear reactor`s core. This is unbelievable, the government is ordering people to stay indoors and keep windows closed as the cloud of steam will be carried by the wind and could … Read more
http://blakeyrat.com/2010/11/macbook-air-security-wtfs/ According to the posting linked above, the Macbook Air has quite limited security by default, very worrying when the firewall is turned off by default, but that can be rectified after booting up, but why would you have auto-login enabled when this will reduce security? After the tragic earthquake and resulting tsunami that has … Read more
To add Enlightenment E17 in Debian 6.0, just add the Debian unstable repository to the bottom of your /etc/apt/sources.list. As shown in the example below. |{~}-{Fri Mar 11 21:13:04} -{shoggoth@Lorien } $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ – Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20110205-18:15]/ squeeze contrib main deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main … Read more
Yesterday afternoon a website started offering free Microsoft Points. I’m sure you if you type “free Microsoft Points” into Google you’ll still get pages upon pages of websites saying you will get free points if you just fill out 4 surveys and give them your social security number. This time, this really was a site … Read more
There has been a story floating around the Internet that Linux was vulnerable to a buffer overflow when a USB device with a name longer than 80 characters was plugged in. They were using strcpy(3) to receive the data string containing the name of the device, but that is vulnerable to attack, it is better … Read more
Draw on any website with Google Goggles. http://goggles.sneakygcr.net/. Just visit the link and add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar and you can draw over any website when it is clicked. A very cool and collaborative Web 3.0 application. But not suitable for young children as they are drawing genitalia and swear words on there, … Read more