Postcard Virus Sets Up IRC Botnet
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2007/05/29/the-anatomy-of-a-virus/
Looks like another yet another botnet is building up from a trojan being sent around as “Postcard.exe”. I followed the botnet to a new channel, and they have almost 450 clients there. Most of those seem to be clients fired off from the trojan. Hopefully, the Undernet admins can stop this one for now. Yes, I know that another one will pop right up, but since this particular beast is coded to join certain channels, maybe it will give helpless attachment-clickers a little bit of a break.
Not a bomb!
Yeah, a little late on this one, but I found this great motivational-style poster over at:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/03/paranoia_poster.html.
Thank god SOMEONE has a sense of humor!
Performancing
I was reading an article over at Lifehacker about different blogging clients, and I ran into one I remember seeing a while back, “Performancing”. Performancing is an extension for Firefox, and lets the user choose between WYSIWYG and HTML editing of posts. I also noticed that Performancing also seems to be a company that provides blog metrics. The stats seem to be able to show posts, comments, views, and a whole slew of other information. I have signed up to try out this service over at http://performancing.com/ and hopefully I will see some nice statistics soon. And, I can see how their editor works for me.
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HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06
I recently set up an Ubuntu server that needed to access a MSSQL database. The php5-sybase package sort of worked (the queries appeared to work, but data was missing). So, I set out to build some .deb packages with MSSQL support built in.
Naked Day!
Yup – today is CSS Naked Day. Strip all that CSS and see how your site works!
TV Schedules Made Easy
EvokeTV Dev Blog: hCalendar, iCal, 30Boxes, and you
I have been using 30Boxes (excellent online calendar) and EvokeTV for a while now. I don’t watch a whole lot of TV, so it is nice to have a simple television listing web app that quickly shows listings and details about shows. It is also very easy to mark shows as favorites, rate them, etc. The shows that I actually watch are accessible in a nice RSS feed now, which can easily be subscribed to in 30Boxes.
Now, after I pick the shows I like using Evoke, I can just go to 30Boxes and they show up in my schedule. Now if there was a way for subscribed events to show up in the RSS or ICS files to allow subscription from a local application/PDA/etc, it would be perfect. If there is already a way to do that, let me know in the comments!
Riya Photo Sharing – Recognizes Faces!
I just got my beta invite to Riya, a photo sharing site that has a very cool feature – facial recognition. While the government is using this for evil purposes like finding you at airports and football games Riya has put this technology to a much better use.
When you upload photos to Riya, it starts scanning them for possible faces. There is an easy to use interface to choose from a list of known names, or assign a new name to a face in a photo. Riya recognizes multiple faces in photographs also. It found faces in all the photos I uploaded except in one that had a profile view instead of a front view of a face. Oh, and a photo of a squirrel. I guess they all look alike?
I could probably come up with a list of “needed” features and changes, but this is still beta, and they are really testing the recognition side of things. Adding better photo management and other features is pretty easy with well-indexed sets of photos, so once this testing is done, I’m sure these features will appear quickly.
