Techie Manager

A new version of the venerable UNIX find utility has been released - now with support for XPath.

One example:

$ ./find -xpath ‘/bin/*[@size > /bin/bash/@size]‘
/bin/ipv6calc
/bin/rpm

Wow. Someone named “Beale Screamer” has cracked MS’s Digital Rights Management (the copy protection in WMV and WMA files):
Beale Screamer has successfully cracked Microsoft’s copy protection used in Windows Media digital right management software. The crack called Freeme strips off the piece from the WMA or WMV file that prevents copying the file.This is [...]

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John Haller has modified Firefox 1.0 to run off of a USB key drive.
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that [...]

From the maker of WinAMP and Gnutella — the Jesusonic.
Using the Jesusonic, you can combine any number of effects in whatever order you choose. Effects can interact with eachother (for example, a volume detection effect can trigger a tremolo effect), or (especially in the case of the Jesusonic CrusFX 1000) with the user (you can [...]

How do you know you’re browsing a secure site?

Uploaded by jkottke via flickr.

I was just thinking the same thing the other day - Firefox makes it very clear if you’re viewing a secure site.

A good friend of mine, Dave Costello, is co-author of a paper entitled “Quake II as a Robotic and Multi-Agent Platform“. It should also be noted that Dave is also on the top scorers list for his senior hockey league, and is very proud of that fact.
We have modified the public-domain Quake [...]

PDA Buyer’s Guide has a review of the new Dell Axim X50v, which makes my not-even-a-year-old Axim X3i look like an abacus.
Specs -
Display: Transflective TFT color LCD, 64K colors, Screen Size Diag: 3.7″, Resolution: 640 x 480, VGA. Intel 2700G graphics processor with 3D acceleration and 16 megs of video memory.
Battery: Lithium Ion [...]

From Fred Langa’s column in Information Week:
Our recent discussions about Windows XP’s SP2 show that the huge patch is working fine for most users; and that with caution (make a full backup or image beforehand; read and follow all of Microsoft’s pre-SP2 installation tips), even potentially troublesome installations can be handled smoothly.
But not swiftly: [...]

NewsForge has an interesting article that critiques port knocking, which is a method of opening and closing service ports on servers via a secret knock sequence. Their conclusion?
In general, port knocking has too many points of potential attack. In particular, anyone with non-root access to the server should be able to trivially break the [...]