June 2006

  • Opera 9 Final

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    Opera 9 is finally out! I’ve been following the beta for some time and I praise the work they‘ve been doing. With a little more support from a strong community, Opera could be the next “Firefox”. [tags]Opera, Opera 9, Browsers, Firefox[/tags]

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  • The Numbers Stations

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    My last post was a little challenge: a ciphered message with an url inside. All you had to do was to convert the binary code, reverse the text and decode the string with the ROT-13 cipher. You would then get http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/16/cryptanalysis-of-phone-numbers-stations/ (as Bruno did very well). Besides the little challenge, the point of that post…

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  • Someone is playing Spys out there

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  • DNS and the B(L)IND

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    I recently changed my domain to this server. Everything went well except for the pain on the behind that was the DNS. After wating more than 72 hours for the TLDs to update (with no sucess), I had to change the DNS server where my domain was registred (again). Another problem I came across was…

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  • Transformers Movie

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    Please don’t let them screw it, please, please, please! [tags]Transformers, Transformers Movie, Steven Spielberg[/tags]

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  • Picasa Web Albums – Google’s take on Flickr

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    I asked myself this question every day “Why Google didn’t came up with Flickr?” Today I got an invitation to Picasa Web Albums, a Flickr like site to use solo or with Picasa. The free account comes with 250MB of free storage space. For $25.00 per year, you can get a more 6GB of storage.…

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  • The Return of the Blog

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    Well, looks like the migration to the new server went well and the blog is up and running. Now it’s testing time, I’ll check for some errors, so please notify me if you see something unusual over here.

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