The Interweb Presents; mediadefender's trade secrets, python scripts to identify packers, XP is better then vista, science images, baffled astronomers, writing and memory, mmo gold farming, terror in peace march, popular video game sites, and drupal modules.
- Python script for packer identification - I really like PEiD, but it is Windows only and I haven't been able to get it to just output the packers from the commandline, so I wrote this script which uses a PEiD database to identify which packer (if any) is being used by a binary.
- MediaDefender's Trade Secrets and Confidential Information - Recently, despite security precautions by our client, a person or persons illegally accessed MediaDefender's email and other files, and stole trade secrets and other confidential information including social security numbers and personal information of certain of its employees.
- Microsoft bows to pressure on XP - The XP date change applies to retailers and other manufacturers who sell Microsoft products. Independent firms that use Windows XP when installing and maintaining computers and networks for businesses can continue to offer it as an option until 30 January 2009.
- Best Science Images of 2007 - seaweed, metal, the brain, and more...
- Radio burst from space mystifies astronomers - "This burst appears to have originated from the distant universe and may have been produced by an exotic event such as the collision of two neutron stars or the death throes of an evaporating black hole," said Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
- Why We Remember What We Write - When we write something down, research suggests that as far as our brain is concerned, it’s as if we were doing that thing. Writing seems to act as a kind of mini-rehearsal for doing. [...] this leads to greater memorization, the same way that visualizing the performance of a new skill can actually improve our skill level.
- Gold Farming - User Created Content Gone (Partly) Awry? - The real problem is the perception of gold farming, not the fact of gold farming, and the perception of power leveling. [...] A "gold farming problem" is a symbol of the success of a game, not a failure.
- Two pictures that show how the protest was crushed - A Japanese journalist lies fatally wounded on a wet Rangoon street. Demonstrators flee in terror from the junta’s gun-toting, baton-wielding security forces. A man is being trampled underfoot. A teargas cylinder flies through the air. Flip-flops, lost in the panic, and discarded water bottles litter the road.
- Top 25 Most Popular Video Game Sites - he Top 25 Video Game sites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast.
- Drupal Module: IP Locator - An ip locator utility and API. It provides a block and an interface for locate, display your visitor's country location.
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