October 2005

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2 Released

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    Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2 Released! Here’s what’s new in Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2: Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved. Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to

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  • Link Mode

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    Internet slips out from American hands – the UN claims control over the Internet Root Servers. Dutch police arrests BotNet gang – Three people arrested for building a worldwide zombie network of more than 100,000 PCs used to launch internet attacks on companies and to hack into bank and Paypal accounts. Flock screenshots – Check

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  • Google Reader

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    Google launched Google Reader today. Still in beta (as most Google “products” are), Google Reader is a web based RSS reader that integrates with GMail. The interface is “GMail like” and it uses Ajax too. We can see a pattern here. The keyword here is UNIFICATION. Notice that Google is starting to use a single

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  • Symantec tags PSP Trojan

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    Symantec Security Response identified today the first PSP trojan (this is known since the 3rd of October). The Trojan.PSPBrick, is a Category 1 threat (Category 5 being the worst) and it renders the PSP useless (like a brick, hence the name). The virus is downloaded like a hack/firmware that lets users run homebrew games on

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  • NerdTV Episode 5

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    October 4, 2005: Open Source pioneer Tim O’Reilly noticed the free software didn’t come with free printed manuals and so a publishing empire was born. Get it here. [tags]NerdTV, Tim O’Reilly[/tags]

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  • Nintendo unveils Wi-Fi dongle

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    Nintendo just announced the Wi-Fi dongle that will allow DS (and maybe Revolution) owners to play online. It’s USB and only compatible with Windows so far. More details here! [tags]Nintendo, Nintendo Wi-Fi, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Revolution, Wireless[/tags]

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  • Suse 10 is OUT!!!!

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    Wed Oct 5 19:07:29 MEST 2005 – draht,aj Dear visitor of this 10.0 iso directory on ftp.suse.com or a valued mirror, You can find the iso images for the installation in this directory: SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD*.iso 5 CDs i386 for installation from CD-R or from an ftp server with mounted iso images. Other network transfer protocols are

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