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mod_layout documentation
2008-10-08 17:42:00 When I installed mod_layout on a server a couple of days ago I had huge problems finding the documentation. The project is halfly (or totally?) dead and the documentation is kind of gone. Therefore, I will post the documentation I found here so users can find it if they struggle like I did:) So, what is ... More About: Software , Documentation
Asus N10 (not eeepc)
2008-10-08 17:19:00 Asus has decided to create a new laptop called Asus N10 - not Asus EEEPC N10. They have decided to not call it a netbook and will call it a normal notebook in their advertising. It do altough look very similiar to the EEE PC. There will be two models of N10 in the stores. The ... More About: Asus
Google REST API code
2008-04-27 09:34:00 Google recently released a new REST API which will replace their old SOAP API (which they haven’t given out keys for since 2006) This is very good news for those who want to do searchqueries “server-side”. Documentation: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/do c…entation/#fonje Video: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2 0…om-outside.html Google släppte igår ett nytt REST API som skall ersätta deras SOAP API (som de slutade att dela ut ... More About: Google , Code , Rest
Tavis Ormandy - Google Security Team
2008-02-19 10:12:00 Tavis Ormandy is the guy from the Google Security Team who “makes it happend”. He’s a researcher on the Google Security Team and faces the unpleasent responsibility of passing all googles products pass the security tests. Tavis is also an open-source contributer, working as a co-lead of the Gentoo Security Team as well. He is one ...
Top IT security folks
2008-02-13 22:00:00 Wondering which people that really have influence on the web, OS and overall security in the world? There are dozens of hackers and programmers that effect the security in software and websites but there are some who stand above most others. cdsrc will cover up five of the most influental persons in the security matter, starting ... More About: Security
How to create a sha256 hash?
2008-02-12 09:25:00 Since PHP 5.1.2 the hash function is enabled by default. To create a sha256 hash you simply write: hash("sha256", $data, false); There you have your sha256 hash! More About: Security , Create
How to prevent SQL injections
2008-02-03 19:01:00 SQL injections are common nowadays and plenty of sites get hacked because of insecure database calls. Making bulletproof injections hard and will take time, but making safer calls are essential and doesn’t take that long to make. So, what is a SQL injection? To clearify it I will give a very easy example: A database may look something like ... More About: Security
How and why to add salt to your md5 hash
2008-01-17 10:59:00 Since a couple of Swedens largest sites got hacked and the passwords are floating across the internet, we thought writing a small guide of how to not do the same mistake as those people have done, not using any salts. So, first of all, what is a md5 hash? MD5 stands for Message-Digest algorithm 5 and ... More About: Salt
Best Inspirational/Motivational speeches
2008-01-15 15:30:00 If you lack inspiration, as all people sometimes do, you try out checking those clips we got here. Here’s our top 5 of inspirational speeches, without order (since it’s impossible to order them). Btw, please comment any other inspirational or motivational speech and we will add them as well! Any given sunday speech, Al Pacino Apple ad, ... More About: Inspirational , Speeches , Motivational
Bill Gates retirement - history and video.
2008-01-14 16:28:00 One of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time, Bill Gates, has now retired from his chairs in Microsoft. Here’s some history: Since November, 1975, Bill Gates (or rather William Henry Gates II) has been entusiastic in his software development company Microsoft. He was one of the first souls who thought there was a commercial market for computer ... More About: Video , Windows , Internet , History , Retirement
EEEPC mini computer laptop
2008-01-10 16:24:00 Asus has developed a new type of mini laptop called the EEE-PC series. EEE stands for “Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play”. There are currently four versions of the EEEPC which are: EEE PC 8G EEE PC 4G EEE PC 4G Surf EEE PC 2G They all have Intel CPU and chipsets and a 7″ display. Here are the ... More About: Laptop , Computer , Mini
Programming language popularity 2008
2008-01-09 16:58:00 Cdsrc will summarize the popularity in programming languages in the early 2008 . This list is based on TIOBEs programming community index. To summarize it first: Java is leading. If you take both C and C++, they would have the lead, so our conclusion is that C/C++ is slightly more popular then Java. This list is basicly ... More About: Programming , Language , Popularity , Programming Language
Swedens largest newspaper got hacked by Swedish hacker team
2008-01-08 16:48:00 The largest newspaper in sweden, aftonbladet.se, got their servers totally hacked during the last weeks. The group called “Vuxna arga hackare” which in english would be “Adult angry hackers”, hacked their servers for the second time in two years with ease. The reason of why Vuxna arga hackare (VAH) hacked aftonbladet is because of a ... More About: Hacker , Team , Hacked , Newspaper , Largest
Google releases a new great API
2007-12-10 21:33:00 Google has just released a new, very interesting API, check it out: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ More About: Google , Great
HTML 5 preview
2007-12-06 10:26:00 The web is evolving like never before and HTML 4 has been around for almost a decade. Developers and publishers want a new technique to provide enhanced functionality. To give us, the publishers, more flexibility, HTML 5 will introduce a wide range of new, exciting features such as form controls, APIs, multimedia and some new structure. The ... More About: Internet , Preview , Html
Great programming and hacking tutorials
2007-12-04 18:57:00 The computer science portal csdir.org has published another good tutorial. This one is about hacking and tells us what an exploit is, how to compile one and how to use it. This hacking tutorial is of great use for newbies and avarage users. This site also has a couple of other great tutorials; The bash tutorial ... More About: Linux , Programming , Internet , Tutorials , Great
Quicktime vulnerability exploited by hackers
2007-12-03 12:39:00 Hackers have started to exploit a vulnerability whole in Apples software Quicktime . This whole is still not fixed since Apple has not yet released a patch. So far are only Windows-users targetted, but Mac-users are not safe either. The vulnerability whole was discovered 23 November and was achieved because Quicktime doesnt validate incoming data securely. This ... More About: Software , Internet , Vulnerability , Hackers
Differences between PHP and C++?
2007-12-02 11:33:00 There are some major differences between PHP and C++. PHP is significantly less strict than C++ and it supports dynamic typich which allows you to assign values of different types to the same variable. There are also no pointers in PHP, instead you use a mechanism of references. When you take a look on the object-oriented ... More About: Differences , Diff
Laptop graphics card comparison
2007-11-26 12:03:00 These are some of the most used graphic-cards in laptops right now. They are listed from worse-better. That means bad cards in the top, better in the bottom. Integrated cards: Intel GMA900 Intel GMA950 ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Nvidia GeForce Go6100/6150 ATI Radeon Xpress 1100/1150 ATI Radeon Xpress 1200/1250 Low performing cards: Nvidia GeForce Go6200 ATI Mobility Radeon X300 Nvidia GeForce Go7200 Nvidia GeForce Go7300 ATI Mobility Radeon ... More About: Graphics , Card , Laptop , Comparison , Graphics Card
Visual Studio 2008 is finished
2007-11-20 15:16:00 Both Visual Studio 2008 and Dotnet 3.5 will be available in the markets in a couple of weeks. Evaluations are already available at MSDN. Among the news in Visual Studio 2008 is increased support for Windows Vista applications, which have been fairly problematic in Visual Studio 2005. Over 250 more news are also available and those ... More About: Software
Fun with google answers
2007-11-18 18:15:00 Alright.. Settle down and take a look on those answers by google! Google question: What’s the answer to life? Answer = 42 Alright.. Thats not that impressive.. but.. Google question: How long can you play a 30GB iPod without repeating a song? Answer: 18.2 days Hehe.. Go google? Google question: How many seconds in one millenium? Answer: 1 millenium = 3.1556926 10^10 ... More About: Answers
Intel releases 12 new processors
2007-11-12 14:13:00 Intel has during the whole year talked about their biggest technological leap in 40 years and now are the first products available. The new Penry-processor is supposed to be 50% faster in graphics but still have a smaller electricity-Consumption. During this sunday Intel presented the new platform that had the codename Penryn and told us that ... More About: Hardware , Intel , Processors
Skype 2.0 Linux beta with video
2007-11-12 13:58:00 Video has arrived to Linux with Skype 2.0 beta! Skype is a software created by the entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrm and Janus Friis. Skype allows users to make telephone calls from their computer to other Skype users free of charge, or to landlines and cell phones for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer, short message ... More About: Video , Beta
New Wine version (0.9.49)
2007-11-12 13:54:00 The free implementation of Windows on Unix, Wine , has released a newer version. So, Whats new in this version? - Many copy protection fixes. - GLSL is now the default for Direct3D. - Lots of memory errors fixed thanks to Valgrind. - Support for TOPMOST windows. - Beginnings of an inetcomm ... More About: Software , Version
Computer science resources
2007-11-06 20:39:00 Here’s a good portal for compuer science resourses; the Computer Science directory. The site is a strong site which has been featured at lifehacker and has a couple of tutorials that are great for both beginners and advanced programmers and scripters. Check it out! More About: Linux , Internet , Resources
Search engine comparison
2007-11-01 19:41:00 In this article we will compare the top 4 of the biggest search eninges ordered by market share. These four engines that will be compared are: Google Yahoo! MSN Live search Ask In this small search engine comparison we will test with a quoted string and in future comparisons we will summarize with unquoted and some other types. Instead of testing ... More About: Search , Search Engine , Engine , Comparison
Google, yahoo msn and ask search engine market share
2007-10-30 20:07:00 The w3counter has published a report of the search engine market shares. Note that there only are four “big” search engines and in practical there are only one big and two smaller engines. The differences of the search engines may vary but google is consider the better in the majority of the results, but with that market ... More About: Google , Yahoo , Market , Search , Search Engine
Google search keyboard shortcuts (BETA)
2007-10-26 11:55:00 Google have a very cool feature called “Keyboard shortcuts” which most people have never seen. Instead of using the mouse to scroll and check the results, you can now use the keyboard to do it. You don’t need to use the mouse anymore now! It’s perfect for those who uses a laptop and don’t have an external ... More About: Google , Beta , Search , Google Search , Shortcuts
Crime fighting 21th century
2007-10-23 16:11:00 This is a pretty funny picture of what crime fighting could be in the 21th century: We’re not far from that as the Swedes and the turkish people are showing with their attacks and re-attacks. We shouldn’t be that suprised if WW3 was started on the internet with a religous motive like that. For those who don’t ... More About: Crime , Fighting , Century
Why ruby?
More articles from this author:2007-10-18 10:00:00 Ruby is a programming language that has been placed in the shade of languages like php and java. So why are people afraid of ruby? Obviously there is no answer to that question, but one could be the “strange” syntax. Or in fact, it has a nonstrange syntax and all other programming languages has a strange syntax. The ... More About: Ruby 1, 2 |
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