I'm glad they're positioning themselves that way.

Getting rid of the old-school cameras seems like a mistake -- they were just becoming the new hot retro thing!

I wonder if someone will come out with a case for the digital Polaroid cameras that look like the old ones. (Wasn't there an iPod case that looked like an original Walkman?)

that's what I want: a steampunk Tivo

a steampunk Tivo

Your own clockwork private secretary will sugggest, based on your expressed tastes, those expositions you might especially enjoy! Record at highest quality for the full 30 Daguerrotypes per second!

Your own clockwork private secretary will sugggest, based on your expressed tastes, those expositions you might especially enjoy! Record at highest quality for the full 30 Daguerrotypes per second!

swoon

awesome. just awesome!

Conficker activation passes quietly but threat isn't over. Apparently, it did activate (wasn't a hoax), but hasn't actually done anything yet; people are advised to keep on worm-hunting.

Hm. That's interesting because this morning I started having Internet issues. Pages were taking forever to load, and some pages weren't loading at all.

That's when I checked my AVG Virus Scans and discovered that it had, in fact, found an infection.

LAST WEEK.

Isn't it supposed to freaking tell me when it finds an infection? Pop-up, notify, something? Does it honestly expect me to CHECK it every day after a scan to see whether I'm clean? I set it to ask me before deleting things because I figured that would be a good idea, but is there any time when I wouldn't want it to just delete infections as soon as it finds them?

MalwareBytes caught a registry change regarding DisableNotify of Windows AntiVirus and Firewall last night; clearly, this thing was responsible.

It was a Trojan sitting in my Temporary Internet Files, aax25f4.tmp. I can't really find anything about it on the Internet, but I got it last Thursday, it seems, and the only symptom I had noticed before today was that the Google graphics on the search page weren't displaying. But since I only had Internet issues today, it seems like it might have been connected to that worm. Or it's a bizarre coincidence. After I deleted the executable, my Internet went back to normal.

Interview with the author of "Mastering cat"

Shlomi Fish, acclaimed author of "Mastering mv" and "Mastering rm" has taken the time to sit down with us for an interview on his latest book, "Mastering cat". In this 344 pages-long book, Fish details everything you wanted to know about the UNIX cat command. We decided to have an interview with him to find out more about the book's motivation, content, and philosophy.

Funny if you use *nix....

eta: Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx

"Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."

Heh.

Funny if you use *nix....

indeed.