Category: Technology

Sadly there seems to be quite a critical bug in the current version of Firefox which allow hackers/scammers to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar and the SSL certificate.

The vulnerability impacts every browser that uses the open-source Gecko browser kernel, almost all except IE, because of a flaw in handling International Domain Names (IDN).

This is very unfortunate for the Mozilla Foundation which recently released Firefox 1.0 alongside with all the browser which uses the Gecko kernel.

The bug was reported Monday 10th of February 2005 and currently none of the vendors have provided fixes for the flaw.

http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_idn_spoofing_test/

With the recent deployment of the Olympia Cordless DUALphone comes something that probably will revolutionize the phone industry, Cordless Skype. The phone can be hooked up to your computer as well as your usual phone-line, which gives this little beast a interesting dual purpose. You can move up to 300m away from your PC and make Skype™ and SkypeOut calls

The phone cost about 140 Euro at the moment, but will probably drop some in a recent feature. This is absolutely a reason to reconsider a Skype-account.

Go Olympia!

Source:

http://www.dualphone.net/
http://www.skype.com/

Yeah well, at least in Swedish. I found this cool little t-shirt today on a minor shopping-spree. The text is in Swedish and it states “PIRATECOPY” … 🙂

“You’ve just seen some pictures of Macintosh, now I’d like to show you Macintosh in person”.

Steve Jobs kicks of a era of computing in January 1984 and show off some mindblowing (hey, it’s 1984) graphics on a Macintosh. Brings back good ol’ memories when i was borrowing my mothers Mac and the endless hours of fun with Warlords … 🙂

Enough nostalgia and enjoy this movie-clip from 1984 when Macintosh was introduced.

Source:

http://cm.math.uiuc.edu/~staffin/1984macintro.mov

You can’t blame Microsoft for making bad applications when their new “AntiSpyware”-Tool intentionally removed Internet Explorer. The application, which currently are in BETA stage, detected Internet Explorer as spyware, and removed the program from their systems.

Microsoft quickly pulled back the Beta version and it has now been replaced with a bit more tame version. Elias Weatherbee, a Microsoft representative, proclaimed that “It shows how powerful our AntiSpyware program is,” personally i think it said more about Internet Explorer then the power of the AntiSpyware-tool.

Related link:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

I found this little neat tutorial on how to speed up our little Firefox, and it’s working remarkably good, if you’re on a high-speed connection. Sadly i don’t know who discovered and wrote the tutorial in the beginning, so thanks to whoever it was who did it!

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really
speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it
“nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“. This value is
the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it
recieves.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

In the footsteps of Googles G-Mail with 1gb space comes the California-based iTrade Group with a free email account that allows you to store up to one Terabyte (TByte, 1000 GB) of space.

1 TB with space allows you to store over 40 million emails, impressive indeed and it seems like iTrade allows you to store files on it as well, Jim Weiss, CEO of the iTrade Group says; “We would like to provide people with an environment to store their data and don’t have to be afraid to lose anything ever again”

I find it hard to believe that you’ll actually get 1TB of space, especially since the email is only available though a website called Hellacious Riders… Sounds like a promotional scam, but hey – try it.

http://www.hriders.com/

The innovations at google never stops. As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real time. I sure hope this becomes standard in Firefox, on the other hand, someone probably wrote a extention to support it already … 😉

Check it out,

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Posted December 13, 2004 @ 10:21
Check out GSuggest at,

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1055865#1055865

Open-source communities rocks … 🙂

.. symbolics.com, at least according to this list;

http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.txt

Worth mentioning is that microsoft.com isn’t on that list since it was intercepted on 2nd of May 1991, was Microsoft really that late on getting on the web? … 🙂

I’m a hardcore Eudora user, I’ve been trough numerous of shit storms from Outlook-users, but I’ve stand my ground without moving a inch, because Eudora is the shit when it comes to Mail-handling, up until now.

I was recommended by a friend (pari) to check out Thunderbird, the open-source alternative from the Mozilla Software Foundations. I’ve recently switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and judging by that experience i decided to give Tbird a try. And i can only say; switch now, switch this instant second, because Thunderbird is what mail is all about … 🙂

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/