Category: General
Pardon for Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing
My friend John Graham-Cumming has started a petition to force the UK government to officially ask a post-mortem pardon to Alan Turing, the father of the modern computers and the breaker of the nazis’ Enigma code. Here is an interview about this topic. This post has been inspired by John’s post here.
9 Digital Camera Features: Necessary or Novelty?
Popfoto magazine has published a very interesting article about the feature of digital cameras (SLR and compact) and categorized them as Necessary or Novelty. I mostly agree with them. http://www.popphoto.com/Features/9-Digital-Camera-Features-Necessary-or-Novelty?cid=10
New article in Avira TechBlog: CentMail: Yahoo’s “new” idea to stop spam
CentMail: Yahoo’s “new” idea to stop spam
Avira has a Risk Level
http://techblog.avira.com/risk-level/en/ Avira Risk Level definitions There is an average level computed for the last 30 days for both malware and phishing. The alert level is computed like this: 1 Normal activity – less than -50 percent 2 Increased activity – between -50 and -25 percent 3 Suspicious activity – between -25 and 25 percent 4 […]
Netbook Samsung NC110
I got it … Samsung NC110. Here are the specs and some pictures as well. Nice … 🙂 It looks and feels like a jewelry.
Puzzle globe
After more than 10 h of work (distributed in about 2 weeks) I managed to finish the puzzle globe from Ravensburger. Here is the entire set of pictures: puzzle globe And here is just one (because I might delete the set sometime):
Opera Unite and Security
Have a look at the article that Dirk Knopp wrote in the Avira Techblog. This article was referenced here : http://www.h-online.com/security/Opera-says-Opera-Unite-web-server-is-not-a-security-problem–/news/113719 His concern is that a lot of malware can be now served directly from user’s computer. And he is right. Even more, if there is a flaw in the Opera and somebody can alter […]
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