Sep 08 2010
There is bad news for the Irish Universities in Trinity and UCD slip down world university rankings.
Unfortunately, this situation is only going to get worse given that the Irish Government is irrationally determined to put all of the nation’s resources into supporting failed banks :(
Sep 03 2010
I have a friend who is a huge fan of all things coming from the template of Ikea :) (I am slowly trying to get her to become an Ubuntu fan also :) )
Anyway, she knows of my interest in all things computer related, so she sent me a link to an article describing how to convert a piece of Ikea furniture into a Linux cluster: What’s with Helmer, the 24 core Linux cluster?.
Actually, the Ikea Hacker blog is pretty interesting :o
Sep 01 2010
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is hosting a meeting in Dublin later this month. The talks seem very interesting, and the full details are available in OWASP AppSec 2010 Ireland.
Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend :(
Aug 27 2010
I read this fascinating article during the week: 100 ways to spend the Anglo €25,000,000,000.
It is really sad and depressing to see how the Irish Government decided to spend all this money, when they could have used it to make us become the world leader in almost any area of science and technology :(
What a waste!
Aug 24 2010
Aug 21 2010
I saw some cool examples of iPad art during the week:
The first is my favourite!
Aug 19 2010
The laptop belonging to a friend of mine recently got attacked by a Drive-By Download virus. The particular virus was the Antimalware Doctor, and there is plenty of information about it available online, such as Remove Antimalware Doctor (Uninstall Guide).
Lucky, my friend had a very recent external backup. Therefore, I wiped the laptop and simply reinstalled everything, rather than trying to remove the virus.
However, this made me wonder how Drive-By Download infection occurs. Another friend recommended that I read The Ghost In The Browser Analysis of Web-based Malware. It was an excellent introduction, and it was very readable.
Aug 16 2010
A very humorous article about iPhone users and their sexual partners: Yo, here’s a vulnerable snap of my iPhone.
I particularly like the last paragraph :D
Aug 11 2010
I came across this useful document today: Terminology for Talking about Privacy by Data Minimization: Anonymity, Unlinkability, Undetectability, Unobservability, Pseudonymity, and Identity Management.
It is fresh off the printing press :)
Aug 06 2010
I needed to edit a photo on somebody’s computer today. I needed to crop the photo, and then sharpen it. Unfortunately, there was no software installed on the computer that would do it :(
I previously wrote about an online photo editor called Pixenate in Online Photo Editor. Unfortunatly, it is not able to sharpen photos :(
So I did a search, and I found Pixlr. It is really slick, and it appears to be very functional!
