Yeah, I bought a Macbook Air I cannot deny that it’s an awesome device and all that, but I’m still getting used to a new OS. The major work’s rediscovering the right tools and, of course, learning OS X’s keyboard shortcuts. Thankfully, it seems like a nice OS and all the work seems worth it. [...]
Read more →Yahoo! launched it browser based media player written in javascript. All you have to do is link the javascript code (located at http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js) in a web page having links to audio file(s) . Although it takes a while for the “player” to load completely, yet I am pretty okay with it (for now). Moreover, it’s [...]
Read more →I hope you remember the young Indian security researchers Vipin Kumar (22) and Nitin Kumar (23), the TPM Boys [I guess, that's the way they call themselves. At least their blog confirms that. ]They presented a Paper “Vboot Kit: Compromising Windows Vista Security” at Blackhat Europe – 2007. The talk explained the (different) booting process [...]
Read more →The title may lure you to assume that I am going to talk about some security bug. Well, I am not… or I’d rather say I haven’t yet thought of any ways to exploit it. If you come up with something, do let us know. Now back to the topic. Almost all the huge players [...]
Read more →Strange things happen to me all the time.When I came to the office a few hours ago, I came across JavaFX scripting language while reading random blogs. I found it pretty interesting and decided to check it out.So I added the module in my NetBeans IDE and started playing with it. Though I could not [...]
Read more →I posted a very small article on Google Bombs; and quite co-incidentally few days later read that Google has started diffusing the bombs. Now “started diffusing…” makes sense when it has to be done manually, but aren’t we talking about terabytes and petabytes of data? We can never expect it to be done manually. Moreover, [...]
Read more →I stay back in the office during night and return back at around 6-7 am, when everybody is coming . These nights are supposed to be LONELY as I am the only one in the building (actually in all the four buildings combined), apart from the security guards and office boys, of course. However, I’ve [...]
Read more →Q. Where do you think will you find an amazingly crafted code that would give priority to a Screensaver over a Keyboard/Mouse interrupt? No Kidding. Think. Ans. If you guessed it to be an Operating System designed by the Redmond Giant, you are stupid. It’s not something to be guessed.I just posted to let you [...]
Read more →I was returning back to my room at around 6:30 in the morning after spending the whole night, as usual, in office. Suddenly this though struck me. I always talk about codes and related stuff and ask people to map their algorithms to real life while coding, especially in OOP languages. I asked myself, what [...]
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