clamav 0.94 finally reaches end of life
clamav finally sent the end-of-life payload yesterday evening – 0.96 is the current version, so it’s been a good run 🙂 Possible symptons you experienced: Repeated notifications:WARNING: ge ...
Category Archives: code
Remote Desktop vs Local Desktop
CTRL+ALT+DEL Local: CTRL+ALT+DEL Remote: CTRL+ALT+END RESTART Local: Start -> Shutdown -> Restart Remote: Start-> Run -> shutdown -t 0 -r I just keep forgetting it… ...
If you’re itching for those GNU apps from Linux on Windows…
You’re stuck on a Windows box. But you don’t want to install MinGW32? Can’t dual-boot to run Ubuntu or Debian on your Windows machine for some for that GNU happiness that sed, groff, ...
synch.cc has just launched systemsaudit.co.za
It’s up – the full network and business system audit and asset tracking service by synch.cc, tracking hardware, software and assets using a background scheduler – more at systemsaudi ...
Step-by-step virus disassembly
Over at SkullSecurity they’ve done a great job of a step-by-step disassembly of the Energizer Trojan using IDA. Using a sterile/insight environment, they go through the code to give you an insig ...
OpenSSL v1 released after 11 years of development
After a long, hard struggle of 11 years, which started with these two entries: 23-Dec-1998: Released OpenSSL 0.9.1c 23-Dec-1998: Official start of the OpenSSL project we are now at the point of “ ...
Afrigator.com down?
No access to afrigator.com, afrigator.biz and blog.afrigator.com – whole system, it seems… and no news on their twitter feed… Just early for Earth Hour at 20.30pm today? It’s r ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Document Indexing and Indexer issues (SOLVED)
Argh. Well, it’s really not quite out of the box, at least on Ubutu Server 9.10 (after reinstallations required after initial failures…), so this is just a selection of the fixes that made ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 reinstallation site startup failure (SOLVED)
OpenOffice.org startup failures, indexing issues and other niggles forced me to re-install KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition) more than once durin ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 – OpenOffice startup script (SOLVED)
Having repeatedly received the error that OpenOffice.org is not running on the standard installation of KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition), furthe ...
Cracking passwords fast with rainbow tables on SSD
A Swiss firm, Objectif Sécurité, makers of Ophcrack_Office (for Word and Excel files) and Ophcrack Open Source (over at sourceforge.net), has tweaked their application to crack XP passwords with up to ...
jQuery UI new 1.8 FINAL release imminent
So twelve days after jQuery UI 1.8RC3 was released, which followed the release of the previous release candidate – 1.8RC2 after less than 2 weeks, the release of the final jQuery UI 1.8 is only ...
Excel 2007 password, cell and sheet protection removal – unprotect/remove password easily
Elmcomsoft has a variety of really good brute-force and dictionary-based password attacks on the full Office suite, including a distributed version to run in the cloud (which I wrote about some time a ...
jQuery UI 1.8RC2 is out
As you may know already, RC2 for version 1.8 of jQuery UI for jQuery 1.4 is out, heralding the final release of jQuery UI 1.8 “in the next few days” based on the What’s New post. You ...
Afrigator internal recent items broken?
Afrigator.com (Blogs, Videos, Social Media etc) seems to have issues on the cross-linking of author to posting – cross-linking internally and referencing incorrectly. I’m sure they’r ...
HTML5 takes over from Google Gears
Google Gears is reportedly being relegated to the bench by the Campus (Google, that is, as mentioned in a range of comments before) in order to allow the fun-filled featues of HTML5 to replace the fun ...
Google’s Do No evil mantra
When last did you access google.com/ig/oscheck? It returns a serialized array — with a weird space-holder — instead of “Do no evil” (which implies that you can be evil, think e ...
No more silly Google.com fade-in effect
You’ve seen it, you hate it, you threaten to switch to wolfram or Bing… Or you can just make it go away. Stylish allows you to apply custom stylesheets to sites by wildcard prefix, so that ...
Dump MS Access data from Ubuntu
The mdbtools package for Ubuntu Jaunty includes a command called mdb-export. This allows you to dump the contents of tblName from database.mdb to STDOUT in CSV format like this: mdb-export database.m ...
jQuery 1.4 improvements
Over at jQuery14 the full list of progress, changes and improvements, notably (amongst other things) in the .css and .attr methods, as well as new AJAXian improvements. Also, event multi-binding is no ...