Look What I Found
This is an Interesting development…
FBI nabs Zotob virus writers
WASHINGTON (AP) – Authorities in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two people believed to be responsible for unleashing a computer worm that infected networks at U.S. companies and government agencies earlier this month, the FBI said Friday.Farid Essebar, 18, was arrested in Morocco, while Atilla Ekici, 21, was arrested in Turkey on Thursday, the FBI said. They will be prosecuted in those countries, the FBI said.
Mind you I only think that the title is funny…not the story itself. (Found via Fark.com)
TheNewMexicoChannel.com – News – Police Recover Man’s Body From Elephant Butte
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — State police have recovered the body of a 33-year-old Mexican man who apparently drown after jumping off a boat into Elephant Butte Reservoir to retrieve his hat.
These Rovers are just simply amazing. From thier function, life span, to the pictures that they are sending back.
SPACE.com — Mars Spirit Rover Makes the Grade
NASA’s Spirit rover is sitting atop the summit of Husband Hill, with rover scientists and engineers overjoyed in achieving the exploration high point.
Found this via Newsforge. I can talk to a MS-SQL server from linux using the Zend IDE, but I havne’t tried using unixODBC…
Green Leaf Technologies – Connecting to a SQL Server database from a Linux box with UnixODBC/PHP
This article explains how to connect from a Linux (or Unix) based server to an MS SQL Server using a combination of unixODBC and PHP. PHP’s documentation covers connecting to a SQL Server from a Windows machine running PHP, but not a Unix/Linux machine.
Once again, I wonder how misguided the IE team is. In this clip I have highlighted below, Rob Franco states:
IEBlog : Security strategy for IE7: Beta 1 overview, Beta 2 preview
Powerful add-ons like ActiveX controls are part of what make browsing such a rich experience but any extensibility can also introduce threats to browser security.
It is the first part I take issue with. It is NOT ActiveX controls that make browsing a rich experience. It is the great web standards that we have (ie CSS and Javascript…). I use Firefox exclusivly, I dont use ActiveX and sites like Google Maps and others seem pretty rich to me. Point being that I think that they need to focus on making IE standards complient, and secure.
Now that second part of that sentence, I do agree with.
Another interesting implementation of Getting Things Done with VIM.
Implementing GTD with vim, remind, and grep
The initial segment on my adventures with setting up Getting Things Done. I have big plans for this as it is a gold mine for integration of a number of unix tools into a personal information system that is starting to work for me.
There can be only one!
Star Wars and LOTR will not join forces!
Playbill – Actor-performer Charles Ross’ One-Man Stars Wars Trilogy is doing such solid business at the Lamb’s Theater that a plan to add One-Man Lord of the Rings to the mix has been nixed.
Ok, This was pretty funny…
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Looking back on the Windows95 launch 10 years ago…I remember all those people waiting in line to purchase it like it was a Star Wars movie or something….
The Old New Thing : Windows 95 crashes a cash register
Not everything related to the Windows 95 launch went well. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a local CompUSA store found that their cash registers crashed at midnight, forcing eager customers to wait ninety minutes before the problem could be resolved. The cause: A bug in the cash register software which had lain undiscovered because the store had never stayed open past midnight before!
Looks impressive…
MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter
MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC.
It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/nopes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!
Please read the requirements before installing MediaPortal!