Well – comming back to the security issue, how many of us know that messages over IM are transferred over “Simple Text” mode. Well, better encrypt this text 🙂

A tool for encrypting the messages over IM

– the best part it is free for personal use. Dont miss a chance to use this tool 🙂

One of its kind – a article on TechWorld 🙂

Anyone who accidentally types “googkle.com” [do NOT attempt this – Ed], an
easy-to hit misspelling of the domain name, will find themselves on the
receiving end of a nasty cyber-jacking, or “Google-jacking” as perhaps it should
be more accurately termed

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Finally done with the Zonal Finals (West) for Imagine Cup. Had a long day yesterday – managing the complete event. Once again, got a chance to meet the best from the Industry.

It was a fun filled event with 7 teams across the west zone participating. However only two of the teams could make it to the India Finals, which would be held at Bangalore. Read for more details about this event.

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Over the years, every critic has been after Microsoft for its security flaws. For a change, a independent security firm Secunia, has found flaws in the Mac OS X.

Apple Computer has released its second major security update in as many weeks, fixing 20 bugs in the “Jaguar” version of the Mac OS X operating system. The most serious of the flaws could allow remote attacks.

This week’s patch was designed for desktop and server versions of OS X 10.3.9, an update released in mid-April as Apple geared up for the launch of OS X 10.4, nicknamed Tiger.

The flaws patched this week are more serious than those addressed by the April patch, with some of the new bugs allowing remote attackers to run malicious code on a user’s system. A buffer overflow in Apache’s htdigest program could be triggered via a CGI application to allow remote system compromise, as quoted by Apple

This is something a friend forwarded me. I guess, the words do mean a lot. Personally speaking, it was something that really touched my heart. So never take anyone for GRANTED!!

According to the study, it’s safe to argue that Tanenbaum, who had years of OS experience and who had seen the Unix source code, could create Minix in three years. “However, it is highly questionable that Linus, still just a student, with virtually no operating systems development experience, could do the same, especially in one-sixth of the time,” says the study, which was written by Ken Brown, president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

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Finally, after two day of hard work, I have the new template for my blog. Have done quite a few changes on it. Here is a list:

1. I now have 2 sidebars. The first one being where I have my feeds, my profile and links to the blogs which i read. This also has some information about the books/music which I’m hooked onto currently
2. The second one has a method to subscribe to my blog, the archive list and the no. of visitors who have so far visited this blog. I have also signed up for Google AdSense
3. The center of the page, consists of my posts, with a all new white background and different font.
4. Lastly, the bottom of the page consists a “Google” Search for my blog.

Do, let me know about your comments on this new look. Also there is a chatterbox on the right, so you can just drop in your smilies 🙂