General

Google is … sorry ?

I am using the Google lite extension for Firefox 3. I typed there “futex” (Fast User space muTEX) and I received this URL: http://sorry.google.com/sorry/?continue=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dfutex%26ie%3DUTF-8 and this page: It is really interesting what those links show: virus checker http://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239-0.html spyware remover http://www.download.com/sort/3150-8022-0-1-4.html

News Photography

Aminus3

I read in PhotoPraxis about a cool site called Aminu3.com. This is a photoblog. You are allowed to upload there an unlimited number of pictures ! You get your own website: http://sorinmustaca.aminus3.com

Antivirus Spam & Phishing

New type of Stock Spam : PDF Stock Spam

Last evening I analyzed a new type of spam, together with Oliver Auerbach. It has been published immediately on the avira.com website, thanks to Oliver. Source: http://www.avira.com/en/security_news/new_type_of_stock_spam.html Content: Tettnang, Wed, 20 June 2007 – Avira warns about a new type of spam which is currently sent to users within Germany. The spam claims to be […]

General

The quest of cross compiling

I own a Dreambox 500S which is in fact a box with a 250 Mhz PPC processor. It runs, of course, Linux, kernel 2.6.9. Because it is so small, so power efficient, I plan to use it to make some cron jobs 😉 So, here I start with some links: http://penguinppc.org/embedded/#toolchain http://kegel.com/crosstool/ http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.43/doc/crosstool-howto.html I’ll post […]