Monthly Archives: September 2005

PHP Security

I good guide on some basic steps to secure your PHP scripts thats both well written and easy to follow. Nothing makes Hulk angry like unsecure PHP!

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Mac demo of DOOM 3

Aspyr today released a free DOOM 3 Mac Demo, featuring a “dramatic storyline, pulse-pounding action, and incredible graphics, which combine to produce the most frightening and gripping gaming experience ever created. DOOM 3 utilizes id Software’s revolutionary new 3D graphics engine to create disturbingly realistic graphics, with never before seen detail and real-time lighting. Players [...]

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Record industry releases malware that deletes your P2P software

From BoingBoing.net: IFPI — the international equivalent of the RIAA — has released a piece of software that will delete your P2P software, strongly implying that P2P is itself illegal and using ridiculous, non-legal terms like “copyright theft” (umm, you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means). [...]

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Drum n Bass Thurdays – 9/22/05

E.M.U. – THE SPINNAKER – 64:29 01 – THE UPBEATS – VODKA BENDER – [TRON008] 02 – MASON – DARK FIRE FT. KAMEEL – [GASM003] 03 – CHASE & STATUS-ROWDY TIME – [BAR04] 04 – SPOR – OUTBROKEN – [RH62] 05 – COUNTERSTRIKE – PHANTASM – [MSXEP038] 06 – SILENT KILLER – FUCK THE SYSTEM [...]

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Slashdot Moves To CSS

Slashdot.org has finally converted their site over to full CSS compatability. Slashdot is one of the largest and more famous, technology and “nerd news” sites on the internet.

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ATI Catalyst 5.9 drivers available

ATI continues their montly driver updates with a new Catalyst 5.9 driver set. You can also check out the release notes. You can get the latest Catalyst Mobility drivers here. Here are some new features with this driver set: Driver Message Events Catalyst 5.9 introduces Display Abstraction Layer (DAL) activation of driver message events for [...]

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iPod Wedding

I am getting married in a year, so I thought this CNET article was appropriate. “Keeping wedding budgets in check is one reason couples are going the digital-DJ route. According to wedding-planning guide Bridal Bargains, professional DJs charge an average of $600 per wedding. A live band can run upwards of $1,000. If a couple [...]

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Google Wifi

LONDON (Reuters) – Google, the online search leader, confirmed on Tuesday it has begun a limited test of a free wireless Internet service, called Google WiFi. The existence of the Wi-Fi service, which offers high-speed connections to the Internet over short distances, is confirmed by public pages on the company’s Web site and was first [...]

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Firefox 1.0.7

This version includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for a reported buffer overflow vulnerability and a fix for a Linux shell command vulnerability. Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7 * Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens * Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs [...]

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Nintendo Revolution Controller

Well, here it is the Nintendo Revolution Controller, which looks like….well…..a, ok, its looks a damn DVD remote. Its supposed to track your hand moments, so you swing it around to move things on the screen. The “concept” of a device that that works by tilting and moving is intresting, however the design didn’t sell [...]

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