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It’s my birthday today… so I’m going to enjoy myself.

I don’t foresee doing any blogging for the whole day today… maybe tomorrow then.

Cheers!

MozFo has launched a wholly owned subsdiary, Mozilla Corporation, which will be responsible for product development, marketing and distribution of Mozilla products. More information is available on this page. Also available are the press release and list of Moz Corp’s advisory committee members.

Y!News has more coverage on this story.

I wrote this not because of something that happened at work, but because I heard something that happened at the company I previously worked at. Over 1.5 years of absolutely zero OS and/or application issues, but just over one week of my resignation, I’ve heard of two boxes which have gotten unnecessarily reformatted. Worse still, the HQ has reverted to using stupid IE as the default browser… but what the heck, the boss’ daughter is “in charge” of IT stuff there, so I’ll just smile from a distance All the best! But anyway, this writeup will just stick to the topic of formatting, or should I say, unnecessary formatting to solve common (Windows-centric) computing problems.

Read the rest of Formatting Is Not A Cure For PC Woes »

Blinded since birth, his disability didn’t stop Brice Mellen from whooping his opponents’ collective asses.

He’s a whiz when it comes to beat-em-up games like Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur II. Quote from the article:

Blind since birth when his optic nerve didn’t connect because of Leber’s disease, Mellen honed his video game skills over the years through patient and not-so-patient playing, memorizing key joystick operations and moves in certain games, asking lots of questions and paying particular attention to audio cues. He worked his way up from games such as “Space Invaders” and “Asteroid,” onto the modern combat games.

“I guess I don’t know how I do it, really,” Mellen said, as he continued playing while facing away from the screen. “It’s beyond me.”

Wikipedia has more info on Leber’s Disease.

New tcpip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issues with the telnet client. Overflows in the telnet client may lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the telnet user if the user connects to a malicious telnet server.

More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0468
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0469

Get your updated packages from the Slackware Package Browser. Lazier and smarter people like me will use updating tools such as Swaret or slapt-get