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Another Strange bundle or did Sun and Yahoo merge ?

21.05.2010 (9:32 am) – Filed under: General

I was prompted today to update the Java framework on my laptop.
I said, yes, update it and then I’ve seen the picture below:

So, I ask, what the hack has Yahoo to do with Sun ?
Why a stupid, useless and nerving toolbar is being installed with the Java framework ?

Did Sun buy Yahoo or Yahoo did buy Sun ?
No

So why ?
Of course, I am an ideologist and don’t accept the obvious answer: for money which Yahoo paid to Sun.

The browser choice

08.03.2010 (10:49 am) – Filed under: General

A Windows Update is available to users who are located in member countries of the European Union allowing for choosing a different standard browser for the system. The update is available for download through Windows Update.

Read more here: http://techblog.avira.com/2010/03/08/the-browser-choice/en/

Avira switches to new update system

02.12.2009 (9:44 am) – Filed under: General

Avira switches to new update system:
http://techblog.avira.com/2009/11/19/avira-switches-to-new-update-system/en/

Amazon: Bestsellers Electronics and Photo

… but only for a short period of time.

Bundling reloaded… now with Adobe & McAfee

10.09.2009 (10:49 am) – Filed under: antivirus,General,News

Did you update your Flash software in Firefox ?
I did …
And this is what i got:
adobe-mcafee

Not very nice, Adobe…

Potential Threat through Opera Unite, Part II

11.07.2009 (10:46 pm) – Filed under: distributed systems,News,p2p

Together with Dirk Knopp I published an update to the Opera Unite – Everybody is becoming a Web server which is called : Potential Threat through Opera Unite, Part II.

I have written some details about the P2P networks and about how Opera is using the concept.
I am thinking now to build a honeypot running Windows and Opera Unite without any passwords.

C++ evolved

09.01.2009 (12:28 pm) – Filed under: General

C++ got since last update new functionalities:
Regular expressions library
Atomic operations library
Thread support library
Smart pointers

Read more here: http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2008/n2798.pdf

These things are also added in Boost and in TR1 implementation for Visual Studio 2008.

Read the Draft Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions available here:

http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf

My book collection on LibraryThing.com

14.01.2007 (9:42 am) – Filed under: General,News

I was trying to update my Book Collection … manually.

I wanted to optimize this thing .. .so I found a nice site where you can load your books and have some code integrated in the site.

So, here is the Book new Book I have read collection.

Wasted Phishing campaign

23.06.2006 (11:24 am) – Filed under: Spam & Phishing

I just received a PayPal Phishing which is pretty nice. Nothing special about it .. this time.

The only problem is that they used a wrong link to the fake site:

http://1171700305:20/webscr/index.php?update.user.

The offending part is the port: 20.

Here is what Firefox says:

This address is restricted

This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection.