Blog: Security researchers found PHP exploit code embedded in a GIF on a major image hosting site, slipping through the proverbial gates with the aid of a legitimate image at the beginning of the file, according to security researchers.

PHP exploit code plants itself in GIF

WordNet is one of the best English language references available, but its command-line and rather primitive graphical interfaces don’t really do it justice. WordNet would greatly benefit from a graphical front-end similar to Visual Thesaurus that allows you to view and explore the connections between different words. Fortunately, there is a tool that does exactly that.

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Visuwords: WordNet goes graphical

Joomla! project leader Louis Landry and his colleagues want to protect the project they love. That’s why, after two years of allowing proprietary plugins for the open source CMS, the group has decided to ask third-party developers for voluntary compliance with the terms of the GNU General Public License, under which Joomla! is licensed. Those developers are complaining that it’s unfair for Joomla! to reverse its position after “a bunch of companies spent millions,” according to one developer employed by a company that markets the proprietary extensions. Landry says he and the Joomla! team were wrong to have allowed the exceptions, and a return to compliance is essential in order to legally protect the open nature of Joomla!.

(And just when I was thinking of changing Software it goes to war with itself, Baldy)

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GPL compliance issues are tearing Joomla! apart

One of the most hated things on the Personal Computer is Crapware. It slows your PC down to a crawl, often causes instability and crashes, eats up valuable screen real-estate, and may even border on Malware. I started on this topic a few months ago with a partial solution but it wasn’t the total solution that really scrubbed the computer clean. This time I’m going to show you thoroughly scrub a PC of Crapware but first I’m going to give a few definitions.

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