AlbanyWiFi.com

It’s going to be an exciting year. Not since the run up to Firefox 1.0 have I been so excited about the content of a release. Firefox 2 is going to be great.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009607.html

This is a complete list of the hacks that are available online. The hacks with a book-cover icon are sample hacks from that book. The hacks with no icon are reader-contributed hacks.

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/q/all_hacks

A step-by-step and illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive.

http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177102101

Cool and interesting ways to use RSS feeds:

http://www.basement.org/archives/2006/01/taking_rss_beyond_headlines_pa.html

We upgraded Nyxem.E to Radar level 2 due to the increased number of reports.

The worm’s destructive payload activates on every third day of the month by replacing the content of user’s files with a text string “DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 K5]“. Among these files are: DOC, XLS, MDB,
MDE, PPT, PPS, ZIP, RAR, PDF, PSD and DMP.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012006.html#00000787

An industry-standards group has given its blessing to a proposal for the next-generation 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, paving the way for 600-Mbit/s products by 2006.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1913452,00.asp

Following is an alphabetically sorted list of popular Web 2.0 applications. The description for each of the application is taken from their own About or FAQ pages.

http://virtualkarma.blogspot.com/2006/01/complete-list-of-web-20-applications.html

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS protocols, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 16MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.
The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0n0wall.

http://www.freenas.org/

Submit your forms ‘the ajax way’ with hidden iframes! This way you wil still have full GET/POST/FILE upload support without messy string joining, escaping and encoding in javascript.

http://beta.zapguide.nl/iframe/

I really do need a ‘bullshit’ category icon ‘cuz here is another one that would get that tag.

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government’s effort “vigorously.”