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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):

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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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Just installed Firefox 3.5

Yes, I got it 😉 PRO: it is better in rendering, it is faster. Zooming a page works perfectly this time. CONS: I think it eats more RAM than its predecessors. One single TAB requires 100 MB RAM and 78 MB VM. Firefox 3.0.11 needed about 80MB RAM with the same plugins and theme.

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wifi everywhere in the Politehnica University Bucharest

While waiting for my Phd. professor in the P.U.B. , i started the PDA and enabled the wireless connection. surprisingly, three wifi nets were available. two were secured, one not. i connected to it and … surprise… i am online 🙂 and i am writing this message from the pda, sitting on the stairs … […]

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Softpedia quoted me again

The original article on Avira’s Techblog: http://techblog.avira.com/2009/05/25/malware-and-phishing-statistics-for-germany/en/ And the article on Softpedia: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Germany-Is-A-Significant-Source-of-Malicious-URLs-112566.shtml I am starting to like this 🙂

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Confiker gots itself a page

Everybody is trying to find a way to get rid of it. And it works. Here is a page with a bunch of tools and HowTOs which remove Conficker. http://www.h-online.com/security/The-H-Security-Conficker-information-site–/features/113002

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How Spaces.Live.com encourages spamming

We analyzed the spam presented in the post called Colorful Spam twist for bypassing Spamfilters and ended the post with the information that the target page is hosted on the spaces.live.com. Of course, as we always do in such cases, we wanted to report several URLs to the Abuse team at live.com. We searched on […]