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Don’t Press F1 in Windows XP

Roberto Sebestyen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:43:22 +0000

Apparently there is a newly discovered vulnerability in windows XP. If a website asks you to press F1 do not do this. Hackers have discovered a way to execute code on the user’s machine by feeding users malicious code disguised as a Windows help file. It affects both Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

If a malicious Web site displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user.

iSEC Security Advisory

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jQuery 1.4.2 Released

Roberto Sebestyen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:21 +0000

jQuery 1.4.2

I’m a little late on the jQuery 1.4 bandwagon since it was released January 14th. However as of this post the latest version is 1.4.2 which was released on February 19th. Time to upgrade.

From the developers:
“In this release we’ve added two new methods: .delegate() and .undelegate(). These methods serve as complements to the existing .live() and .die() methods in jQuery. They simplify the process of watching for specific events from a certain root within the document.”

The API Documentation has been re-written, and the library has some new features, while improving speed and stability. You can take a look at the full jQuery 1.4 Release Notes Here.

jQuery 1.4 Performance

Download Links:

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Microsoft iPod

Roberto Sebestyen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:57:25 +0000

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Decoupling Application Code from IoC Implementation

Roberto Sebestyen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:08:21 +0000

Background:

While working on my pet project, using my favourite dependency injection framework, StructureMap, I came to a realization. If I ever decide to change my dependency injection framework for something else, such as Ninject, my code is tightly coupled to StructureMap. The change would force me to update a bunch of code throughout my numerous application layers.

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VMware-authd.exe

Roberto Sebestyen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:36:05 +0000

I got home today and woke up my pc from hibernate. I always have Process Explorer running in my task bar, so as I was waiting for Firefox to start up, I noticed that my CPU was pinned at about 70% usage, it wasn’t Firefox. It was VMware-authd.exe. I do have VMWare installed but I have not touched it on this machine for years.

Being concerned I turned to the all-knowing Google. The answer came in the form of a blog post by Christopher Miller, who suffered the exact same issue.

Here is his post, hope this helps other VMWare users out there:

I was doing some work on one of my PC’s and I had the processes list open in Task Manager. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that one process, VMware-authd.exe, was going from 0 to 10% of the CPU. I didn’t know what that process did, I went out on a limb and assumed that it was somehow related to VMWare. VMware is one of my favorite tools, but I wasn’t running any VMWare sessions. Time to go Googling. Apparently it’s a service that provides administrator priviledges to to a running VMWare session if the host use isn’t logged in with administrator access rights

If you are logged in with admin rights, you don’t need to have this service running. VMware-authd.exe is the name of the executable for the “VMware Authorization Service” service. You can go into Services and shut that service down and then set it’s startup type to “manual”. There are no other services that depend on that service to be running. You can also stop the service from the Windows command line with the following:

net stop VMAuthdService

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Free Mailbox For Your Domain Using Google Apps

Roberto Sebestyen — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:29:25 +0000

Get an email like this: your-name@your-domain.com with Google Apps

If you run a business, or if you have ever switched ISPs, then you know how valuable it can be to retain your email address. Connecting a mailbox with a domain that you own will enable to keep the same email address even if you switch ISPs or your email service providers.

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District 9

Roberto Sebestyen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:46:59 +0000

District 9 Prawn vs Dr. Zoidberg

Just saw District 9. Excellent movie. I will not write a review as other people are far better at doing that. Even people who are not into Science Fiction movies liked it. I just can’t get over the fact that the aliens remind me too much of Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama.

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Life as a programmer

Roberto Sebestyen — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:56:17 +0000

"You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it’s finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you’ve created. It has an abstract shape in your head that’s completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful. Then, only a year later, after making dozens of pragmatic alterations to suit the people who use it, not only has your Venus- de-Milo lost both arms, she also has a giraffe’s head sticking out of her chest and a cherubic penis that squirts colored water into a plastic bucket. The romance has become so painful that each day you struggle with an overwhelming urge to smash the fucking thing to pieces with a hammer." – Nick Foster ("Life as a programmer")

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Bike Picture

Cleiton — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:11:46 +0000

Hi everyone,

A friend of I sent this picture to me today morning, and I didn’t resist to publish it.

It’s awesome!!!!!

Enjoy the view

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Another trail ride

Roberto Sebestyen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:45:34 +0000

I took my Giant XTC 1 out for another ride this weekend. I rode north along the trails starting from Orchard Heights Park in Etobicoke-Toronto. The trail begins right under the bridge of the Gardiner Expressway. It rides along The West Mall all the way up to Dundas. Unfortunately that is where it ends. It is short (two or three kilometres), but some parts are challenging enough to make you want to go back again.

I used my new favorite panoramic stitching program AutoStitch to create these panoramic photos. Feel free to click and see a larger version of them.

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Post tags: Mountain Bike Trails, Mountain Biking, Pictures