Month: June 2012
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SA Radio gets a little crazy this week
Earlier this week, Shaun Deswberry released a post slating the listener/viewer statistics that had been released by NetDynamix, the company that streams the Ballz Visual Radio and 2Oceansvibe Radio online stations.He backed this up with a lot of reasonably sounding technical detail so it was surprising that NetDynamix immediately went on the offensive and said…
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Apples can get viruses
After years of deceiving its clients, Apple has finally admitted that its products can get viruses, something most of us have known all along. The Mac maker changed the wording on its “Why you’ll love a Mac” page from stating “It doesn’t get PC viruses” to “It’s built to be safe”. The same page also…
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Slackware -current May 2012
For anyone having some weirdness in X/KDE after updating to the latest current ~ May, there are some extras you need to do. First for the latest release of Xorg, some packages have been split and as such, you will have new packages that have probably not been installed. Go through recent entries in Changelog…
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A week of hacks
This week has been one massive hack; 1st LinkedIn, then eHarmony and now Last.fm. What is especially galling is that none of these companies salt their stored passwords – considering that unsalted password hashes are easily deciphered with the massive computing power available to anyone these days, this is a huge faux pas. “Salting stored…
