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2013-05-21 12:58:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Focusing on network vulnerabilities

Next two days I'm taking part in course that might teach me something about countering attacks towards our network.

Have to admit that it is somewhat exciting how much vulnerabilities and possible exploits we will find during (and after) this course...

2013-05-20 04:54:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Focusing on network vulnerabilities

Next two days I'm taking part in course that might teach me something about countering attacks towards our network.

Have to admit that it is somewhat exciting how much vulnerabilities and possible exploits we will find during (and after) this course...

2013-05-17 19:31:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Made some chicken tonight...

First I put all chicken pieces evenly on pan. After that I covered them with blue cheese, crushed lime-seasoned cashews and finally bbq sauce. Put them into oven for half an hour and got really delicious dish. Enjoyed them with white wine. Not bad experiment!

2013-05-17 10:34:31 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 16 +1s)

Machine that goes PING!

Some humor for friday... This might be my favorite Monty Python sketch, there are many others but this one shines amongst them. 30 years of age, but still entertains today.

2013-05-17 08:23:26 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Why I can't see new posts?

After hitting that 'new' -button, my canal flowed posts into next lock (see my earlier post: https://plus.google.com/117166962835543791045/posts/R1KENdjsGEn) but I saw only roughly 10 new posts... Others were old posts that I had read earlier. So where those 290 posts went?

Unless I keep clicking that 'new' -button continuously, I'll miss most of new posts, because all posts are re-load and popular old posts are offered again.

Is anyone else having this problem? +Google+ Helper 

2013-05-17 05:08:13 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Google+ doesn't have stream anymore, but canal with locks

I just realized that stream is something that moves on continuously and this "stream" here has stagnated into canal with locks. Every time you push that 'new' -button, you open a lock and let posts flow into next lock.

2013-05-16 10:20:00 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

While everyone is blabbing how good/bad this new UI in Google+ is, there have been some changes elsewhere too. Check out the new buttons in GMail!

2013-05-16 09:30:37 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For more than two years, the #Linux operating system has contained a high-severity vulnerability that gives untrusted users with restricted accounts nearly unfettered "root" access over machines, including servers running in shared Web hosting facilities and other sensitive environments. Surprisingly, most users remain wide open even now, more than a month after maintainers of the open-source OS quietly released an update that patched the gaping hole.

2013-05-16 08:32:07 (27 comments, 7 reshares, 14 +1s)

Bring back the auto-update to stream!

It's the only thing I'm asking... Everything else I can cope with. And yes, this looks good, only functionality has suffered.

2013-05-16 04:32:13 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

AAARGH!

Stream layout with posts queued (like it used to be) causes huge whitespace in astronomical scale to appear... Me no like!

Otherwise this seems snappy and working solution.

2013-05-14 18:10:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

It's nice to learn something new every day... I didn't know that oxygen plays so vital part around us.

2013-05-14 10:45:09 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And some humor about my current home town Kouvola... All things might not open up if you aren't one of the locals. ;)

2013-05-14 05:33:23 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Not looking good...

My profile background picture just disappeared and communities have stopped working... What next?

2013-05-13 05:40:08 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Google To Introduce New Login System For Increased Security

This new login method will require a Smartphone, where a login request received through any of the services can be approved through an alert on the mobile device.
#security  

2013-05-11 17:11:25 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Treats from the grill

This summer's bbq season starts slowly... This was just the third time I've been sitting besides hot grill and cool beverage.

Nevertheless, now we had salad, sauerkraut (really delicious!), buttered & seasoned corn, halloumi and some chili sausages. Also found today couple cans of really tasty beer from local shop discount shelf.

And that catfood box had our sauce bottles in it, no actual cat food. :D

2013-05-10 09:43:45 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Have you noticed that commander Riker from Star Trek TNG always sits down swinging his leg over the backrest?

2013-05-08 07:42:54 (56 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Oh my... Robots assembling IKEA furniture without prior programming (about target) or instructions.

Does this mean that those lovely 3D-puzzles will be solved in no time in the future? ;)

2013-05-06 07:46:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Movie made with atoms

Something incredible from IBM's research labs. Gotta love science!

2013-05-06 05:44:59 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

A handy reference... 66 commands you can give your Google Now device

2013-05-04 12:35:59 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

And here they are... Our chicken for the summer! Ground might look crude, but these chicken will get everything they need.

2013-05-03 18:49:28 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Yet again, I'm building stuff...

This time I spent two evenings building a chicken coop. To be honest, I just turned our old kid's playhouse into one. Playhouse had suffered some damage from moisture, but is still in relatively good shape for housing couple chickens for summer. I had to build wooden door frame and attach some mesh fence between it and the playhouse.

I surprised myself with pretty solid structure and I'm not a builder type or good with structures without prior instructions/blueprints. Tomorrow I have to build couple perches inside and add some finishing touches. Still I think that this thing looks hideous, but will do it's job fine.

2013-05-03 02:44:35 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Damn... Looks like I'm listening Slayer for few days now on...Hanneman made all my favorite songs from Slayer and had really cool riffing in them. 

2013-05-02 09:14:07 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Internet access = piracy according to Belgian copyright association... Stupidity/greed reached new heights with this.

2013-05-02 04:34:07 (19 comments, 7 reshares, 27 +1s)

Could you live whole year without Internet?

2013-04-30 10:02:46 (6 comments, 6 reshares, 28 +1s)

2013-04-30 09:30:19 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 11 +1s)

Check out the first URL ever... Time flies with technological advances, is it 20 years already?

2013-04-30 06:03:45 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

"Why are there so many people that pirate? It ruins me!" A Pirate 

2013-04-29 03:02:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Visited Tallinn on weekend...

It's always really nice to visit our southern neighbors and have some quality time there. Weather was fine, but Sunday morning was rather cold, so we had to keep on moving to stay warm...;) On Saturday we saw huge crowd dancing in middle of the old town square, it was all singing and dancing and joyous stuff. Later we found out that they were also walking through streets singing and performing.

We had nice time there and plan to go again coming summer. Food is really excellent (and insanely cheap if you don't end up in tourist traps) and beer is tasty too. Probably have to visit that zoo there and check out more of the new town (and finally check out missing parts of the old town!).

2013-04-27 14:27:11 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

I just had smoked beaver for starters and beef made in Mongolian way for main course...

Now having Brazilian roasted coffee from freshly grinded beans and some hand-made truffles for dessert. Truffle in image has vana tallinn licquer giving flavor. Yum!

2013-04-22 12:09:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

DMCA explained.

2013-04-22 10:34:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Giant game of Pong played on two skyscrapers...

2013-04-21 14:27:50 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

And here's the greenhouse I finished today...

Damn, those panels were really annoying to attach! But I got it done and our little greenhouse needs only few boxes and shelves for plants. Total building time was roughly 8 hours. Whew!

2013-04-20 14:19:14 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

Something that I built today...

I got our greenhouse's frame done today. Tomorrow I'll be fixing panels to it, so we can start growing some nice home-grown vegetables.

2013-04-19 10:54:47 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Debian 7 release on 4th or 5th of May.

2013-04-19 09:37:21 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-04-19 04:24:46 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Moderators can now move posts between community categories

Based on all the amazing feedback you’ve shared, we know that being able to move posts from one discussion category to another is at the top of your wish list. We’re excited to announce that moving posts is now possible, and will be rolled out to all moderators throughout the day. 

To move posts between categories:

1) Go to a community that you moderate, and find a post you’d like to move
2) Click on the post’s current category (located at the top next to the date)
3) Select the new category you’d like to move the post to

Let us know what you think in the comments, and please keep the feedback coming!

#googleplusupdate  

2013-04-18 05:04:17 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Funny and interesting Linux command line utilities

Working on Linux command line can be fun sometimes. Ubuntu Linux is used for all the examples. Enjoy at your own risk!:

1. Linux "sl" command

From the man page: "sl - display animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls."

$ sudo apt-get install sl
$ sl
(see image)

Animated steam locomotive loving across the screen from right to left. One can play a prank on someone by:

$ alias ls=sl

2. Linux "yes" command

From the man page: "yes - output a string repeatedly until killed"

$ yes linux
linux
linux
linux
linux
^C
$

Why would we want a command to keep on printing a string all the life of the process? We can use "yes"... more »

2013-04-17 09:47:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Fuduntu linux distribution EOL'd...

2013-04-17 09:30:31 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Anyone else missing the volume controls for Circles?

(thanks to +François Bacconnet for the heads up.)

2013-04-17 06:08:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Patent insanity strikes again.

Microsoft makes more money from patent licenses than with it's own products.

2013-04-17 02:51:23 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Fever - One way to handle it...

On Monday, I was very tired at work. And by very I mean really really tired. I thought it was just the fact that I had slept only 1,5 hours previous night and woken up 0:30 and couldn't get sleep anymore.

I managed to get through the day, usual it-stuff and one lengthy meeting even. After I got home, my wife asked why I was shivering and pale. I realized that I usually never feel cold, so I took out our thermometer...

Minutes later, I got whopping 39,6 (°C) points in "Are you sick?" competition and decided to not do anything for rest of the day. Lots of juice, couple medicine pills and mail to work that I'm not coming next day. Early into bed and 16 hours of continuous sleep. <-that's nearly 3x my normal amount).

Woke up next morning feeling quite good, no fever or tiredness... 

2013-04-13 18:47:47 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 18 +1s)

Some humor for the weekend... I don't remember when I have laughed this hard. :D

2013-04-12 10:26:21 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Researchers can learn more from the brain by turning them transparent. Pretty cool finding!

2013-04-12 07:40:36 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

The Internet!!!

2013-04-11 11:48:34 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Firewall

While I was today making some changes to our company's firewall, I thought that probably most of our users aren't even aware of it's existence.

Here's simple introduction what firewalls are...

2013-04-11 09:50:22 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Dotless TLD for "search"?

This could work if it would not be tied to any certain corporation offering that service... Same goes for other dotless domains 'blog', 'cloud', 'app' and so forth.

2013-04-10 09:53:27 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Saturn Peeks A Boo

In this extraordinary capture, Saturn appears to be emerging from just beyond the moon. It's worth remembering that the Moon is a mere 400 thousand kilometers away, compared to Saturn's distance of 1.4 billion kilometers. For details, check out the Astronomy Picture of the Day at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130407.html

Image Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann

2013-04-10 08:36:01 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Tech inside Google Glass already patented?

2013-04-09 05:32:19 (2 comments, 12 reshares, 24 +1s)

I did not know you could actually win Snake.

Wowsers.

2013-04-02 07:33:53 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Need to put things in perspective? Check out this scale of the universe. This is one of the best visualizations I've seen! http://htwins.net/scale2/