Misc

My New Favorite XP App

Tariq — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:04:00 GMT

I found this cool application called Visual Task Tips today.

It shows you a preview of the running app when you hover your mouse over the its task bar entry like on Vista

Link: http://www.visualtasktips.com/

Netcraft June Survey: IIS catching up to Apache

Tariq — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:36:00 GMT

A Netcraft June Survey shows that IIS is catching up to Apache quite well.

Neowin.net has the scoop.

Excerpt

"The number of hostnameson Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month. Apache had a decline of 429K hostnames, and loses 3.5% to 61.25%"

Technorati : Apache, IIS, Netcraft

Scoble is leaving Microsoft

Tariq — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:03:00 GMT

Niall Kennedy announces that Scoble is leaving Microsoft.

Quite a shocker there. But its true. Scoble had a huge impact in changing Microsoft PR at least did a whole lot to get the "word" out there. I wonder who will be filling in his shoes.

Technorati : Scoble, leaving, microsoft

Alonso dominates Silverstone

Tariq — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:12:00 GMT

The Silverstone GP 2006. Alonso just dominated it. An interesting race, not as controversial as Monacco but interesting nevertheless. I really was expecting a better fight from McLaren though, but like Kimi said the car just wasnt fast enough. Maybe next time. Honda also hadnt improved much since Monacco. The BMWs were looking better, there could be better competition from the in the future.

Technorati : 2006, F1, Fernando Alonso, Renault

I got mentioned on the Community Server Daily News

Tariq — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:17:00 GMT

I got mentioned in the Community Server Daily News.

Cool!

I still havent told the world about the site to put it in the 'this site is live category' as I am still working on it. I guess this post will do just that.

Theres a bunch of stuff still left to do.

And no I am not ditching GWB. I love being a part of the GWB community, but apart from that I do want to market myself and I think a site of my own will help a bit in that.

Besides how can I ditch GWB, right now I am king of the hill with the highest number of posts, and I'll race any one of you GWBers to a 1000 :)

I have already got a few favorable comments about the look of the site, so once I am done I might map-out what I did to the theme plus other customizations like adding more randomness to the Captcha control.

For the moment I think I am going to leave the feedburner urls as they are, I might switch them sometime in the future, but the burned urls should make that transition transparent.

Any Dissapointments?: yeah the speed currenlty sucks :( but tariqayad.com is now live.

Technorati : Community Server, Community Server Daily News, blog

WikiHow on How to Survive in the Woods for 3 Days

Tariq — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:22:00 GMT

WikiHow has a length article about surviving in the woods for upto 3 days if you get lost.

Check it out: http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-in-the-Woods-for-3-Days

Technorati : Survival, wikihow, woods

Example: The Biggest threat Security is still Human Beings

Tariq — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:17:00 GMT

Its surprising that even with all the awareness being raised on security, human beings will always be the weakest link. For example today most folks at the place I work lost their yahoo accounts coz of a certain spam message which took them to a site to view some photos.

A very simple exploit it was too. a field for the user name and password, form post action which is routed through a cgi script to an email address. The next stage is I would assume is to have some means of spamming all contacts in the hacked account with the spam message. Could be done very easily by running a screen scripting tool (e.g. LoadRunner) to pick the user name/password from the email, login via yahoo, and then change the stolen accounts password, mass-message all contacts in the stolen account the url to nefarious site.

Very simple and spreads like those pentagon schemes. But I got to hand it to the 'hacker' on how genuine the nefarious site looked.

Update: A certain smart-aleck was able to chat with the hacker, and find out what the default passwords set by the nefarious site was. Smart-aleck then decides to send an email to a very wide distribution list what it is. I consider that a very dangerous move. Priamriy becuase prior to that the account was safe although not accessible, not so anymore, after that email goes out, its open to anybody.

Anyways speaking about exploits be on the lookout for this one. Genious.!!

Technorati : password, yahoo exploit

Zoundry for blog posting

Tariq — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:58:00 GMT

Have you guys tried Zoundry?

Its a good blog Editor, untill now my main blog editor has been BlogJet. BlogJet is awesome. It was a big step forward from having to use w.blogger. But blogjet doesnt have crossposting.

Enter Zoundry a blog editor that has compatibility with all the greatest, and accomodates for crossposting. The software is free to download and use, but there is an interesting twist (can I call it that). Well twist as not in a bad way but this. Interesting eh?

Gripes about Zoundry?

Yes right now I got a couple, the cross posting UI could be easier to use, and the keyboard shortcuts are not configurable (I mean CTRL+L is just not CTRL+K)

Technorati : blogging, tariq, zoundry

Nikon tweaks D2X to D2XS

Tariq — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:56:00 GMT

Nikon has come up with a revision ot its professional grade D2X camera dubbed the D2Xs.

Engadget has a round up of all the improvements.

Something that puzzles me is that why Nikon has left the 8MP DSLR range empty. Canon have several models in that Range, but with Nikon its a big jump from 6.1 (D70, D70s, D100, D50) to 10.2 (D200)

Might not be true, but its a nice ploy

Tariq — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:53:00 GMT

Check out this page on the AMD site

http://enterprise.amd.com/us%2Den/powermanagement/

which shows the ammount of money wasted by not using AMD processors.

– Nice