I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I’m doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot. — from a mail sent to Cocoa-dev
Category: IT & Technology
Captcha breakers? No, thanks!
Several months ago, I’ve added a captcha check to the contact page to stop spammers from flooding my mailbox. Today, with much surprise, I’ve received a comment to that post from a guy trying to sell his services: We the leading Data processing company in Bangladesh. Presently we are processing 300000+ captcha per day by …
lm_sensors config for Asus T3-P5945GCX (P5L13L motherboard)
I’ve just installed the latest Mandriva 2008.1 RC on this fine Asus barebone. Everything went fine, except that the output of sensors showed too many ALARM messages for my taste… so, here’s how I’ve modified the pre-installed sensors.conf to set some min/max values closer to reality and to hide useless lines: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748# Winbond W83627EHF configuration …
Is your data secure?
Users with sensitive data might find it comforting to use disk encryption in order to prevent it to fall in the wrong hands, especially when this data is stored on a laptop. Hovewer, a new research shows that it might be relatively simple to recover the encryption keys for at least three popular products (BitLocker, …
Another step towards an IPv6 Internet
Today IANA added the first AAAA records for six of the thirtheen authoritative DNS servers that carry the root zone. In short, this means that as of today one would be able to wander across the Internet without having anything to do with IPv4. Too bad that virtually no ISP is ready to provide IPv6 …