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Monthly Archives: December 2006
France to make UFO sightings online
According to Reuters, The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics. … Continue reading
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Careful with New Year wishes
CNet reports that an e-mail worm disguised as a New Year’s greeting is making the rounds on the Internet. Worm-laden messages are titled “Happy New Year” and contain an attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip. If the attachment is opened, … Continue reading
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Review of Project Looking Glass on Ubuntu
I finally got some time to write about Sun’s Project Looking Glass. You might have read my earlier article about installing Project Looking Glass on Ubuntu. Once installed, it creates an option in the login window as a session. Click … Continue reading
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AVG Anti Spyware
Girisoft has released AVG Anti Spyware few months back. I got a chance to install the free version on my old Windows machine 2 days back. AVG Anti spyware is available in both free and paid versions similar to AVG Anti … Continue reading
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Wine 0.9.28 released
Wine HQ has released Wine 0.9.28.
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Read and write to Linux Ext2 (also Ext3) partition from Windows
Ext2 Installable File System for Windows is a freeware that provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003 full access to Linux Ext2 and Ext3 file systems. This program helps you to copy file from and to Linux and Windows. It installs a pure kernel … Continue reading
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10 days holidays
My office is closed for holidays starting tomorrow (23rd) until January 2nd. It’s a much needed break. I may not blog as frequently as I do now (Lots of cleaning to do), but I’ll try to blog as much as … Continue reading
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Save or convert a file as PDF in Windows
If you want to save/convert any file, whether it’s a word document or HTML or anything else, to PDF, then PrimoPDF is what you want. I googled for some software that will allow me to save the documents in PDF format … Continue reading
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Vulnerability in Windows Vista
Microsoft Security Center is closely monitoring the issue with the Client Server Run-Time Subsystem as proof of concept code is already released to exploit that flaw. The affected OSes are Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP1, Windows … Continue reading
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Is Microsoft trying to patent RSS?
Microsoft has filed 2 patents with the U.S. patent and trademark office regarding web based feed readers. One patent covers the technology that Finds and consumes web subscriptions in a web browser and the second one relates to content syndication … Continue reading
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