I finally relented and bought myself a new Dell DJ music player tonight! My last portable music player purchase was a Sony Discman I bought in 2002 for my sister. I thought it was finally time for me to get with the times and gift myself something I could use to listen to music while mobile.
My new gizmo has a 30GB hard drive, and comes with a neat docking station. It cost me $200 after $95 in coupons and customer appreciation discounts. I just couldn’t give up on this special …
I bought a new domain – cerebrawl.com last night through Yahoo! Small Business. They are running a special where you can get a domain registered through an affiliate Australian domain registrar for $1.99 a year. I got mine for 2 years!
I was looking to find something that had to do with a mental struggle, and chanced upon cerebrawl, which sounded kind of interesting to me. I am sure I could think a bit more and dwell upon the word’s deeper significance.
At this moment, I have no concrete idea on what …
Yet another Amber Alert has been sounded in NC, this time for a 12 year old girl who was abducted by a 27 year old man. I came to know about this while I was coming back from Burlington on Saturday evening, and saw animated signs about a vehicle registration number near the RBC Center in Raleigh.
This made me wonder; what if there was a way to use the existant GPS network to track runaway vehicles like this Hyundai Sentra. What if we could embed a GPS tracking device into …
I just realized that the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger suffers from a vulnerability that allows a hacker to get your IP address.
Basically, if both the clients use the latest version of messenger and the victim responds to an IM from the attacker, the former’s IP address is shown in the netstat output of the latter. This is a very old vulnerability that was supposedly patched a long time ago, but has resurfaced in the latest version of the messenger software.
It appears that both the clients initiate a direct end-to-end …