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How about a Better & Cheaper MacBook Air!

Those were the days when I used to be a Apple fan.
aah.. the harsh reality that they produce nothing more than crippled products at sky-high prices.

Moreover, Apple isn’t just about cut-throat business. It’s also about making people feel bad about themselves.
Don’t trust me?
See here yourself.

Orkut Latest XSS Worm; and what it means for Indian Orkuteers

Update: Kishor reports a flaw in the implementation of “private” videos feature on Orkut. Although I am at office and I haven’t checked it yet myself, I believe I can trust him, based on his posts at Slackers. Nice one Kishor.

1. YAWN [Yet Another Worm, Nanny]

Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for Indian, Pakistan [...]

M$ WindowsXP just got a newer version of Update with new Components!

I am not sure if anyone is aware of it or not, so kindly spare me if it’s not NEW in the sense I wish to convey. (Or may b, you didn’t discover it the way I did)
For no particular reason, I visited the windows update page today (using IE7) and got this message:

As [...]

Fake Steve Jobs Revealed

Arpit had a joint post on the probable revealation of FSJ (Fake Steve Jobs), along with the info on Exif Data revealations of the Harry Potter book images.
Anyways, the new news is that FSJ has been busted for real. It’s work of a New York Times reporter Brad Stone. The FSJ is Daniel Lyons, a [...]

Java vulnerable to remote compromise

ZDNet Asia reports that Google Security team has discovered as “Dangerous Java Flaw that threaten’s Virtually Everything“. The interesting part of this news is that, apart from a few scary statements, it doesn’t inform you anything else.
The Sun advisory page on this flaw, however, informs you about two flaws which are nothing but Buffer Overflows. [...]

TPM Boys withdraw paper from BlackHat USA

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 [...]

Bill Gates no more The Richest

Slashdot updated today that Billy Boy is no more the Richest man in the world. The position is, however, not official. The standard is Forbes list.
Billy Boy has been surpassed by Carlos Slim, the Mexican Telecom tycoon. Bill’s current estimated wealth is $ 59.2 billion, while slims estimated wealth is $67.8 billion.
Reasons:
Two of the [...]

Month of Search Engine Bugs: “Mission Accomplished”

The Month of Search Engine Bugs by MustLive has come to an end.
MutLive reports:
In the project took part 33 search engines (30 web engines and 3 local engines) of 19 vendors, some vendors have several engines. The list of project’s participants (in order of appearance): Meta, Yahoo, HotBot, Gigablast, MSN, Clusty, Yandex, Yandex.Server (local engine), [...]

Bill Gates wins me!

I realized that the title of this post has a contrast with my previous post, only after I wrote the topic. Thus, I feel that it is obligatory to mention that I am still Anti-M$. I still do not support there business model. Phew!…and yes. The contrast in the names is just a mere coincidence. [...]

Google Lost Me!

It’s strange writing something like this using a service that’s owned by Google. But it was long overdue.
There was a time when I used address Google as “Google God” :).Used to believe a lot that they religiously follow their “Do no Evil” motto. I forgot that as companies grow, there are bound to be [...]