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Month: December 2007

“The 12 Threats of Christmas” from PGP Corp

December 31, 2007 Fun, People / Places Leave a comment

This will probably be my last post of 2007! In a few hours, we will [eat|drink|danse|.*] all night long to welcome 2008! I’d like to wish all the best to all my readers. Happy New Year 2008! In 2007, YouTube became THE site where almost everybody can express itself. In

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The day the routers died…

December 24, 2007 ISP, Net, People / Places One comment

whois POEM-RIPE55-SONG. This song closed the RIPE-55 meeting held in Amsterdam.

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Laptop case with built in Wi-Fi detector

December 18, 2007 Business, Hardware Leave a comment

Ok, there are plenty of gadgets with built in Wi-Fi detector: keyrings, t-shirts, … But here, it looks much more professional when you travel: More info here.

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New category: Ads

December 18, 2007 Fun Leave a comment

As said in a previous post, from time to time, there are very nice ads! Like this one for an optician:

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Nmap 1997-2007

December 14, 2007 Software Leave a comment

Happy Birthday to nmap! Version 4.50 is out.

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Error Handling: verbosity−−;

December 13, 2007 Security, Websites Leave a comment

Developers need to implement good error handling procedures in their code. There is nothing more annoying that something like “error 0x4e45ff“. On the other side, reporting too much details to the end user can lead to security threads! Use Google and search for “mysql error and look the cached pages.

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Quote of the Day

December 11, 2007 Fun Leave a comment

Si vous voulez que votre femme écoute …

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Bluetooth .vs. Anonymity

December 11, 2007 Fun, Security Leave a comment

bash.org is a wonderful archive of quotes found on IRC. Yesterday, I received the following quote from a colleague: <sixoo> Tain j’etais aux chiottes ce matin et bon nos bureaux c’est des toilettes collés les uns aux autres, bref… <sixoo> J’etais tranquillement en train de faire mon besoin et a

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Mobile Surfing

December 5, 2007 Software, Websites Leave a comment

Today, I read the an article about the most used browsers on the Internet. Here is a resume: Windows XP 78.37% Windows Vista 9.19% MacIntel 3.59% Mac OS 3.22% Windows 2000 2.97% Windows 98 0.76% Windows NT 0.63% Linux 0.57% Windows ME 0.43% iPhone 0.09% Windows CE 0.06% Hiptop 0.02%

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Christmas Before the Hour

December 5, 2007 Fun, Hardware Leave a comment

Saturday, I got my PSP! I’m not a real game addict but this console is a complete portable multimedia system (movies, pictures, music). I’m missing time but the next steps will be a complete analyze of the software and try to get the most of it 🙂

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