Archive for the “Linux” category

Happy 20th Birthday, Linux!

by AJ on August 25, 2011

“Today is a very special day for Linux, for it is precisely 20 years ago on this very day Linus Torvalds sat down at his computer to share word of his ‘hobby’ operating system to users of Minix – a (…)

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Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined

by AJ on January 8, 2009

Yes you are reading that right, Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined in terms of population. Facebook has a staggering count of 150 million users according to Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook). Country population breakdown: Turkey (…)

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SURF JACK: Even HTTPS will not save you

by AJ on August 11, 2008

There’s a new security tool that Surf Jack that allows one to hijack HTTP connections to steal cookies – even ones on HTTPS sites. Works on both Wifi (monitor mode) and Ethernet. Here’s a proof of concept to steal session (…)

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Woopra is a breath of fresh air for web analytics

by AJ on June 11, 2008

I’m probably one of the first early users to get access to Woopra‘s beta couple of months ago. Quite frankly, I didn’t use it. I felt Woopra wasn’t going to be as good as what we currently use (Google Analytics). (…)

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PHP Everywhere Conference Programme

by AJ on November 30, 2007

  7:30 8:00 Registration     8:30 8:40 Welcome and Opening Remarks Host / Emcee   8:40 9:00 PHP User Group Introduction Pres / VP all officers   9:00 9:20 Keynote Speaker Dr. Alvin Marcelo   9:20 9:40 Break / (…)

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Friday Madness: Early adopters roundup

by AJ on October 19, 2007

Microsoft Aquisition Plans: 20 Companies Per Year “Not to be outdone by Murdoch and his slew of MySpace announcements, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made some pretty big announcements today at the Web 2.0 Conference, speaking on Microsoft’s plans to (…)

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Grooveshark: Get paid for sharing music

by AJ on September 7, 2007

I just got a beta invite to Grooveshark. It’s a cool music sharing and discovery site like last.fm. Grooveshark is also a P2P music service at its best that gives you rewards if you fix song tags and flag poor (…)

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Ubuntero: Social network for Ubuntu friends dugged, down

by AJ on September 6, 2007

Ubuntero, the social network for Ubuntu friends is now feeling the digg effect. They are still down as of this writing. I haven’t seen even the front page yet. –aj

GotoSSH: A Web Based SSH Client

by AJ on August 17, 2007

GotoSSH.com is offering free accounts for a web based SSH access and it is currently limited to one server and 2 minute sessions. Subscription for the unlimited account is $12.00/year. For the geeks out there! :) –aj

Apple multi-touch coming, Nigerian scammer/spammer, windows home, nintendo fan and more

by AJ on August 14, 2007

Apple’s MacBook to have multi-touch functionalities soon? A patent here tells us so. Nigerian scammer and spammer going to jail. Dude, ready your bum. :P If you thought that the Windows 98 BSOD tatoo, the Zune dude and ubuntu fan (…)

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