CHEERS!!!
Wishing you all a safe, happy and prosperous New Year…
It’s time for that cheesy classic… 
Semi-hiatus
The past 2 weeks has been interestingly hectic. So hectic I barely have time to sit and put in an entry. In any case, I’m hoping to still be able to put in an entry here and there and hopefully I should be fully back in the fold by Jan. 2 next year.
Whatever the case maybe, I hope you all are having a wonderful Holiday Season and I wish you all the best for 2010.
Yeah Boy! Yah Suck! – David Pogue | Microsoft
This week’s, Yeah Boy!!!
I don’t know if you’ve heard of David Pogue, New Technology Columnist for NyTimes.Com. His website is aptly named: DavidPogue.com. I first got turned on to him (no he did not turn me on 
) when he did the keynote for a marketing conference I attended in Las Vegas about 2 years ago. The man has proven that he had the gift for writing, the gift of gab, he delivers his stuff in a very down-to-earth and funny fashion (both in text and in speech) and as he demonstrated in that keynote speech, he got musical skills, too. He explained that Music was actually his major in college and becoming one of the most recognized and respected tech reviewer in the web today is quite a feat indeed. Read more
Monday DeMondaynizer – An Interesting Quote
You say this is a computer for ordinary people? Why would an ordinary person want a computer? – Hewlett Packard executive to Steve Wozniak regarding Apple prototype
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Cheers to Your Monday… 
Yeah Boy! Yah Suck! Friday…
Missed last Friday’s Yeah Boy, Yeah Suck ‘coz of the holidays and today I’ve been fighting the network gremlins all morning and a little out of sorts right now and playing catch-up… Yes that cheese to go with my whine sounds good just about now…
Anyway…
This week’s Yeah Boy! (should have been last week, but who’s tracking?)…
Efren Peñaflorida and the rest of the 10 CNN 2009 Heroes. Their stories are simply the true silver lining in the dark clouds that has been laying over our dear planet. Efren Peñaflorida was named the CNN Hero of the Year, but even though I am truly proud of this man from my home country, I can easily say that any of the other 9 folks recognized in this event are equally deserving.
My hat’s off to these heroes: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive09/index.html
What else is there to say but YEAH BOY!!!
This week’s Yah Suck, well there are so many choices: Read more
DARPA and the Red Balloons
A little something-something to tickle the fancy of social media geeks out there. If you have not heard of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), they are the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense and are essentially the key organization responsible for creating the Internet, and no, Al Gore was not the head of DARPA 40 years ago when the concept of digital inter-connectivity was being developed … And yes, it is the same the “Intranetsh” George Dubya Bush likes to quote…
QUICK UPDATE: MIT STUDENTS WIN THE COMPETITION (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/06/MIT-students-win-military-balloon-hunt/UPI-82141260114716/)
Bum-A-Post Wednesday: How to Fix a Computer or PC that is Not Booting/Starting Up? How Can I Fix my PC Without Having a Boot CD? Where Can I Get a Boot CD for Windows?
How to Fix a Computer or PC that is Not Booting Up? How Can I Fix my PC Without Having a Boot CD? What Should I Do if I Don’t Have a Boot Disc? Where Can I Get a Boot CD for Windows?
One of my friend’s computer had numerous problems. He used to ignore all the error messages he gets in his Windows XP and continued to work with it, until the day it became dead.
And he asked me how he could revive it, because he was not even able to start his computer and didn’t know where his boot CD was. Read more
Monday DeMondaynizer: Scary
There’s plenty of this stuff going around, funny how people still fall for them. Never gets old…. … At least if you have the sense of humor of a 6 year old like yours truly …
Happy Monday…
Happy Thanksgiving
Depending how stuffed I am or how lazy I get after downing several servings of deep fried turkey and all its trimmings and buzzed over watching too much football, I may or may not post any new stuff for the next 4 days… Long weekend… It’s time give thanks and be thankful for what we have and what we will soon have (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual -whatever floats one’s boat)…
That said, I wish you all a Safe, Rewarding and most of all a very Happy Thanksgiving Weekend…
Bum-A-Post Wednesday: What is internet security?
Internet security has always been at top concern for IT industry. Because, nowadays a large number of monetary transactions are taking place using the online mechanism. Computer users prefer using online banking service instead of waiting in long queues for their turn. Some enjoy shopping from their home, and others like to invest in share’s using the online trading option.
Each of this service requires important credentials of users, which are known only to the user. The online transaction is carried forward after the server authenticates the entered credentials with the stored credentials in the server. When the authentication process is successful, the user then can start the transaction process. Read more
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- From the National Vulnerability Database
- CVE-2012-1090 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The cifs_lookup function in fs/cifs/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via attempted access to a special file, as demonstrated by a FIFO. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-2123 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The cap_bprm_set_creds function in security/commoncap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.3 does not properly handle the use of file system capabilities (aka fcaps) for implementing a privileged executable file, which allows local users to bypass intended personality restrictions via a crafted application, as demonstrated by an attack that uses a parent process […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-0044 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012Integer overflow in the drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1.5 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted ioctl call. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-2121 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.4 does not properly manage the relationships between memory slots and the iommu, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS to conduct hotunplug and hotplug operations on devices. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-0207 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The igmp_heard_query function in net/ipv4/igmp.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and panic) via IGMP packets. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1601 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by making a KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-4621 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly implement a certain clock-update optimization, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via an application that executes code in a loop. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1179 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-0879 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (I/O instability) by starting multiple processes that share an I/O context. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1146 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012The mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event function in mm/memcontrol.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 does not properly handle multiple events that are attached to the same eventfd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by registering memory threshold events. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1090 (linux_kernel) May 16, 2012