Jan

10

Say welcome to “Printer” Spam

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Recently a lot of work was done in exploiting browsers cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

Now research by Aaron Weaver showed the possibility to use browser connected to malicious site to send print jobs to network printers. This may be big problem for companies – usually home users use only locally connected printers.

It is just matter of time to create a tool and sell it to the spammers. Then we can say welcome to “printer” spam.

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Jan

2

RIP: Netscape

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In his blog Tom Drapeau announced that AOL will stop development of their Netscape browser.

Security patches will be released until 1 February 2008.

Jan

2

Next version of Asus Eee PC

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In the net there are rumors that next version of ASUS Eee PC will have 8.9″ (1024×600) screen and integrated WiMAX and will be based on Intel Menlow platform.

Jan

2

Virtinstall error

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When trying to install CentOS 5 in Xen DomU via http I received following error:

“Could not find an installable distribution the install location”

The problem was that instead  pointing to root of folder containing mounted disk images I should point to disk1.

That solved my problem.

Dec

24

Christmas

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“Merry Christmas to all of you.”

Its meanings and variations are:

  • As “Merry Christmas”, the traditionally used greeting for Americans, composed of merry (jolly, happy) and Christmas (Old English: Cristes mæsse, for Christ’s Mass).
  • As “Merry Xmas”, usually used to avoid the length of “Merry Christmas“, with the “X” (sometimes controversially) replacing “Christ”. (see Xmas)
  • As “Happy Christmas”, an equivalent that is commonly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as “Merry Christmas”.
  • As “Feliz Navidad”, which is the Spanish language equivalent of “Happy Christmas“, but is frequently used in English context. The phrase “Felices Fiestas”, the Spanish language counterpart of “Happy Holidays” has also been used in some Spanish speaking communities.

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Dec

24

On next shopping list – Nuclear reactor???

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On the net there is a news circulating about “Personal” Nuclear reactor.

Toshiba MicroNuclear

I did not find any confirmation on Toshiba web site, but here are projected specs for Toshiba MicroNuclear:

Dimensions: 20×6 ft (1 foot = 0.3048 meters)

Power:  200 kilowatt

Security: fail-safe and totally automatic and will not overheat

Fuel: liquid lithium-6

Expected life: 40 years

Electricity cost: 5 c/ kW

Expected date: 2008

Price: ???????

Knowing price tag for current Nuclear reactors this may not fit in my budget for next year Christmas shopping, but it may be good solution for remote areas or as backup power source for data-centers.

Dec

19

Windows XP SP 3 RC available for download

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Microsoft release candidate for Windows XP service pack 3 is available for download.

Dec

17

CentOS 4.6 is ready

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You can download it now:

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.6/isos/

Major changes for this version are:

* samba has been updated to version 3.0.25b. This addresses several
critical issues affecting interoperability with Windows 2003в„ў and
Windows Vistaв„ў (resolved in recent upstream releases).

* autofs5 is included in this release as a Technology Preview. This new
version of autofs resolves several long-standing interoperability issues
in multi-vendor environments.

* There is a technology preview of OpenOffice-2.0 included in the
updates directory. You can install this OOo2 preview alongside the
current OOo-1.1.5 version, or you may install the OOo2 preview alone.
We apologize that this was not included on the ISOs, however it was not
on the upstream ISOs and we followed that layout. To List the new
OpenOffice-2.0 RPMS with yum use this command:

yum search openoffice.org2 | grep i386 | grep -v langpack

For finding Language Packs (if you want other than English) do:

yum search openoffice.org2 | grep langpack

Use “yum install <pkg_name1> <pkg_name2>” to install the packages
that you want, or “yum info <pkg_name1> <pkg_name2>” to obtain more
information about them.

* A new yum included in CentOS-4.6 requires the installation of
yum-metadata-parser. The yum-metadata-parser package contains a
metadata parser for yum written in C. It speeds up the metadata parsing
phase of yum considerably and does not change yum behavior in any other way.

Dec

16

ftsata2 driver failed to load

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I’ve decided to check the logs on my Compaq system and I discovered following error:

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    Service Control Manager
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    7026
Date:        16/12/2007
Time:        2:50:16 PM
User:        N/A
Computer:    COMPAQ
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
ftsata2

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

It was little bit strange, because I have nvidia s-ata drivers installed, and this driver appear to be from promise. After searching on Internet I came to following solution posted on hp site:

Go to Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->View->Show Hidden Devices->Non Plug and Play Drivers->ftsata2->Driver->Start up Type = Demand

Shortcut: just press Win key + Pause/Break -> and continue from Hardware

Dec

13

ThreatFire + Wget(windows) = False Positive

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New(old) PcTools tool detected my wget.exe as keylogger. After submitting the issue to tech support they concluded(surprisingly fast for free product) that most probably it is false positive and after further study they will update their rules.

For now just add wget.exe to safe processes.

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