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Archive: August, 2009
Growl notification script for Mac OS Mail
After I created a script to enable Growl notifications for Entourage, complete with subject, from and the first part of the email, I have adapted the script to work with Mail. The reason is that I have dumped Entourage – in fact, I have dumped Office and gone with Mail + iWork, now that Snow [...]
So where are the beautiful Mac OS weather station apps?
I got started with weather stations with a cheapo Huger WM-918, even though my interest in meteorology has been growing since a young age. It was fun to predict thunderstorm based on natural factors such as the behavior of ants and flies, or the flight patterns of certain birds – all of this, once you [...]
Worrying – spam on TheFunded
So I was checking through the backlog of TheFunded RSS entries for interesting posts and reviews, and found – wait for it – spam! And not just one post, but six, all by different users by names like Felicia or Kassidy. Here is a screenshot of the spam posts in question (click for a full-size image) [...]
Congratulations, Benchmark Capital
Success is what defines Benchmark Capital, who turned $6m into $5b between 1997 and 1999 with their investment in eBay, and have now completed two transactions, the sale of FriendFeed to Facebook, and of SpringSource to VMWare for $400m. A big round to you guys, well done! TechCrunch has more details on the deals.
Fix your Wordpress 2.8.3 NOW!
It appears than an input validation vulnerability is present in wp_login.php, used by Wordpress 2.8.x to validate logins and reset passwords. An attacker can bypass the emailed password change link validation by submitting a crafted input to the password reset function in wp_login.php, as described here. The fix is at the bottom of the article, [...]
Garmin ANT+ Agent 2.1.2 has issues
Check out this post:
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=274
If you are running the latest release, downgrade to the previous one otherwise uploads from a Forerunner 405CX will invariably fail.
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