As if getting computer viruses in your email wasn?t bad enough, now you can also get a computer virus when you visit a blog. Hackers are setting up fake blogs which, when visited, infect machines with keylogging software or viruses. Filtering firm Websense says that these hackers then send out email or instant messages that […]
My RTL-8139 based NIC card broke down today ! It broke down, just after one day I finished screenshoting my Fedora Core 4 Desktop for Internet Connection Sharing Guide. The interesting part is, the RTL-8139 managed to bring down my Fedora Core 4 while spiralling down to it’s demise. I get a screenful of unexplained […]
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According to the news I read from http://geekzone.co.nz, Nokia have made an annoucement that it’s Java-enabled Series 60 phone will include CDC (Connected Device Configuration) for the Java platform. This is a significant leap for the phone industry, because all of mobile available to the market today only supported CLDC. According to the website, the […]
Since there are so many people at my house need to use scanner for day-to-day stuff (actually only my sister). So we decided to get a Home/SoHo scanner, and naturally i’m the one who got to choose. Browsing through few stores and places in Alor Star, finally i came across this entry-level SoHo Canon LiDE-20 […]
Greg KH have released “nano” devfs patch for the current linux kernel to mitigate the concerns of embedded system developers. However according to Greg the inventor of udev (userspace /dev filesystem), he is not going to submit ndevfs patch to the main kernel tree. He explains it in his words : “I’m not going to […]