Slashdot | Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw GreyMagic Software, an Israeli computer security firm, has discovered a serious security flaw in Yahoo and Microsoft’s email services which allows hackers to run malicious programs on users’ computers. According to the website, all attempts to contact Yahoo unfortunately failed. Here’s the interesting part: the exploit works only…Continue Reading…
Wow! I’ve never heard of this before, and I haven’t tried it yet, but apparently you can use standard hardware and get 1.72 MB (almost a 20% gain) out of standard 1.44 MB floppy disks. Format standard 1.44 MB disks for 1.72 MB using standard hardware (Almost 20% gain in capacity). This is achieved without…Continue Reading…
People living in some of the most inaccessible areas of India are enjoying an improved postal service – thanks to the combining of e-mail with traditional ‘snail mail’. Post offices in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh will take a customer’s handwritten letter and computer scan it. Then the letter can be e-mailed to remote,…Continue Reading…
Now THIS is neat.
I want one of these.
I just read a thread on sitepoint where someone questions the reasoning behind swithcing to Apache from IIS. Here’s a compilation of interesting points to consider. “It is the most secure, reliable, and scalable platform for web-enabled enterprises…” “The nature of Open Source software provides a major advantage to Apache over IIS: namely that Open…Continue Reading…