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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.

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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, malicious software is downloaded from the Internet and can infect computers running Windows operating systems (yet another proof to ditch Windows and use Linux).

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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 on the image below.

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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 Virus. The free edition offers Daily database updates, Heuristics to detect unknown threats, Automatic Cleaning Engine. What it lacks and available in the paid version are Automatic online-update, Real-time monitoring of the entire system, Self-protection at kernel layer guaranteeing gapless monitoring.

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Wine HQ has released Wine 0.9.28.

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 mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys,
which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating system to
include the Ext2 file system. Since it is executed on the same software
layer at the Windows NT operating system core like all of the native
file system drivers of Windows (for instance NTFS, FASTFAT, or CDFS for
Joliet/ISO CD-ROMs), all applications can access directly to
Ext2 volumes. Ext2 volumes get drive letters (for instance G:). Files,
and directories of an Ext2 volume appear in file dialogs of all
applications. There is no need to copy files from or to Ext2 volumes in
order to work with them.

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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 I can. I wish you all a Wonderful Holiday!!!

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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 and I got PrimoPDF. I wasn't sure if it has any adware or spyware in it, so I went and checked the review in CNet. There was nothing negative, so I downloaded and installed it. The installation process and using it thereafter was pretty simple. Once you install the program, all you have to do is select the print option from any application you are using and select primoPDF as the printer. It'll then show you the screen as shown below:

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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 XP SP2 and Windows Vista. In order for the attack to be successful, the attacker must already have authenticated access to the target system.

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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 platform which manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet.

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