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Time To Turn Yourself Into Strong Relaxed And Fit

Today I bumped into an exhausting specification of an average computer programmer. Things that we consider unimportant for our job, and therefore we do not do them, really hit my eye. This article is about dealing with known disadvantages of being a computer programmer...

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The Illusion: Are You Really Controlling Software?

It happens every day that regular computer users discover security and privacy issues of proprietary software. Because the users don't know any better than to keep staring at the issues blankly, the issues are almost always ignored and forgotten. Yet later, when it spontaneously has some unpleasant consequences, the same users have harsh time searching for solutions...

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An Idiot's Favorite OS - Windows Vista

Have you ever wondered how bad Windows gets? Check out this video...

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GNU/Linux Being Attacked More

With the constantly growing userbase of this successful free operating system, an increasing number of companies and individuals researching security really starts to put effort in discovering hidden flaws. Now I have to patch and rebuild applications almost daily, since vulnerability-disclosure is done more frequently than ever before. This situation is not getting any better, beyond the users feel safe just because they're running a non-mainstream OS. I'm gonna describe decent protection mechanisms to prepare for the next decade...

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librapidget 1.0.0 & Rapidget 2.0.0 released!

It's not news, that my old rapidshare downloader stopped working after relatively short time because RapidShare changed the portal. Some of you probably adjusted signatures to make it work again, or at least attempted to, however you have to admit it was built as a temporary solution, only. Let me present you the very best one...

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UPC (Useless Piece of Crap) [cs]

Muj predchozi ISP byl TETAnet, jehoz bandwidth cini 16Mbit full duplex (tarif Doma I). TETAnet uziva stavovy firewall pro filtraci veskereho outbound trafficu na port 25 (smtp) s vyjimkou jeho vlastniho serveru, doporuceneho k odesilani mailu zakaznikum. TETAnet ziskal moznost snadno odchozi postu uzivatelu monitorovat, logovat i nekolik let archivovat. Za urcitych okolnosti budou tato data zneuzita jako dukazni material proti uzivateli. Vyvarovat se nebezpeci lze uzitim enkrypce, v praxi napr. Message Submission poskytovany s gmail. Sifrovana komunikace muze probihat mj. prostrednictvim utility ssmtp. Performance downloadingu torrentu s TETAnet neodpovida poctu kvalitnich seedu. Zrejme dochazi k prioritizaci packetu, nicmene i 64kB/s az 92kB/s muze byt dostatecne. Rapidshare je obcas s TETAnet nedostupny, pricemz ve stejny cas u ostatnich ISP je funkcni...

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You're Not Paranoid, You're Really Being Watched

The new threat is JavaScript Malware. Unlike platform-dependent viruses, JavaScript Malware runs cross-platform in a browser. Google could be profiling users of its social networks. Self-replicating JavaScripts automatically exploit web sites vulnerable to XSS. They turn on your browsers into public open proxies, perform keylogging, steal your data from private web sites you run on localhost, steal Google search queries, track the sites you visited, exploit your browser's cache to get secret information (credit card numbers, social numbers, passwords, etc.), spoof URIs using International Domains with Unicode (phising) and that's just the beginning...

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Disarm Advertisers Abusing Our Privacy

Annoying banners! They are everywhere, and they have rapidly evolved. It all started with ordinary pictures, but it's been evolving for decades, and these days, we have to defend against web spyware; a software which tracks the sites we visit, logs the keystrokes on our keyboards, records our IP addresses, attempts to steal our email addresses, and does a bunch of other things, among assisting to marketing experts. I see a possible source of the SPAM in it, but I have a definitive solution of this problem, let's simply filter all those small information hungry bastards out of our browsers, NOW...

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Rapidget 1.1 is final

I improved a lot my tool, again, and now, it's release time ! The most significant changes are download status indicator and decreased memory usage. You will love this version...

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Rapidget 1.0 released - update

Since I found some competitors programming a utility similar to my Rapidget, so I've decided to turn it up a notch, and added a bunch of new features. Rapidget is now in version 1.0, and supports also Free Mode...

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