Many flash games have an ad service like MochiAds which fetches some extra flash content from the net when the program loads ( Read more... )

Windows Update says:
"Install this update to restrict AutoRun entries in the AutoPlay dialog to only CD and DVD drives. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer."

Been waiting for this one since the problem was autorunning CD and DVD drives, and we've gone through a few UI revisions that make it harder to turn autorun ( Read more... )

Good resources:

• The GNU Assembler manual
• Intel opcode list (note that GNU tools produce AT&T opcodes, but the root names are the same)

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My dad either created a Facebook account with a fake name or he changed the name on his existing account to a fake one. I know this because Facebook is telling me to friend this account with a fake name, and I recognize his old BBS nickname. My guess is that we both used parts of our real names in our email addresses and Facebook is matching us on ( Read more... )

A new way of writing parsers

The game Meritous (available from apt-get) is interesting in several ways ( Read more... )

Patches for a software product flow like this ( Read more... )

Stanford's web security course has enough text in the projects and lecture notes to learn a few things without attending the school. There are a few tricks in there that I hadn't heard of, like a Javascript port scanner that is both badass and bloody obvious in hindsight; just make lots images load from target:port and see if they time out.

He backs Mubarak? The evil Americans oppress the people again and get worse relations with the Arab public ( Read more... )

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