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Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
Talkback On April 26th the chip and PIN machine was stolen from my local Shell petrol station counter in the Bath road in Speen, Newbury. Shell is quoted as saying "Shell's chip-and-pin solution is fully accredited and complies with all relevant industry...
About: Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
[May 12, 2006, 13:37]
IE may share Mozilla 'shell:' flaw
Talkback I seem to recall the vulnerability being not with Mozilla, but rather with the way that WindowsXP/2k itself handles the shell: protocol. Until Microsoft fixes the flaw at the operating system level, this flaw will remain in all browsers that allow...
About: IE may share Mozilla 'shell:' flaw
[July 25, 2004, 2:18]
RE: Perl in the shell
Blog Comment Adrian, go for a Commore PET emulator (http://www.viceteam.org) instead of just looking at the photos of a Commodore PET. An emulator is much more fun ;-)
[September 10, 2008, 17:21 by jfroebe]
RE: Perl in the shell
Blog Comment You made a great point there Jason - we are usually platform specific with these kind of in depth pieces and that can put you off if it's not your preferred flavour of code. That's why I used to be involved with a title that aimed to be 'cross...
[September 10, 2008, 16:35 by Adrian Bridgwater]
RE: Perl in the shell
Blog Comment Amen Adrian. I have been stewing over this for a while, and not only is there not enough about "real programming", what little there is seems to always imply that it should be trivial - "mashups" seems to be the buzz-word right now, and from what I...
[September 10, 2008, 13:41 by J.A. Watson]
RE: Perl in the shell
Blog Comment The only thing I can say is that if you Google: "Perl in the shell" - you won't find many people (I can only find me) that have ever used that title and I think it's a REALLY obvious one that's kind of cute too.
[September 10, 2008, 13:44 by Adrian Bridgwater]
RE: Perl in the shell
Blog Comment Generally speaking, the lack of good programming articles is mainly due to that they focus on a small percentage of the readers. A lot of programmers would love to get articles published but most magazines either won't publish a programming article...
[September 10, 2008, 16:07 by jfroebe]
IE may share Mozilla 'shell:' flaw
Talkback Am I reading this right? For Microsoft to bother fixing it, someone has to exploit it? Actually it kind of makes sense. I guess there's so many MS Vulnerabilities (TM) that are being exploited they don't have time to fix the ones noone using.yet.
About: IE may share Mozilla 'shell:' flaw
[July 16, 2004, 11:24]
Perl in the shell
Blog Why doesn’t anyone talk about computer programming languages these days? I’ve just spent the last couple of days working with a great guy called Jason Froebe on a Perl tutorial that really digs deep into making sure developers know that it is a...
[September 10, 2008, 12:12 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
When "linux single" does not work
Talkback When passing "linux single" to the boot loader does not work one can try replacing the init by the shell using: linux init=/bin/bash at the boot loader prompt (lilo or grub). In this case the kernel will start only the shell and the administrator...
About: Rescuing Linux when it won't start
[October 3, 2007, 0:28 by hmarx]
RE: Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Comment I was only filling out my name and address for my SHELL petrol points card this weekend and got to the email address and date of birth boxes and thought. Shell don't need my birthday to give me petrol points.
[September 1, 2009, 11:57 by Adrian Bridgwater]
A Not-so-Stupid Nerd Trick in Windows XP Pro
Blog First log-on as the intended victim, uhh make that User and open Regedit.exe and change HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” value to an executable BATCH file. Basically setting up a custom User Shell has been fairly...
[August 14, 2009, 15:59 in Home Server Projects by Xwindowsjunkie]
Secure open source desktop gets public funding
Talkback Use a restricted shell by default and run KDE (or fluxbox) in kiosk mode. Maintenance is done using sudo, and if necessary calling a non-restricted shell or temporarily re-mounting the partitions with new options.
About: Secure open source desktop gets public funding
[June 1, 2005, 8:01]
2004: Internet Explorer's year of shame
Talkback of course the mozilla fan above would also note that microsoft has highlighted the shell problem several times--it is the single biggest problem that resulted from 'embedding' IE and other internet programs into windows.yes, it was 'fixed', by...
About: 2004: Internet Explorer's year of shame
[July 10, 2004, 9:57]
RE: Mobile Manufacturers - Obsessed by cool?
Blog Comment I like and still own clam shell phones, the main reason is that I trash technology. Having a clam shell helps the extend the life of the main screen for me. Nice blog, I recently posted on my own blog about the lack of hardy phones and I agree...
[December 7, 2007, 13:55 by welshtroll]
Nokia unveils luxury phone
Talkback The immediate improvement I can see is that the screen moves up to reveal the keypad and not the shell covering the keypad moving down. With my 8890 the shell can get in the way when operating the keypad.
About: Nokia unveils luxury phone
[April 8, 2005, 19:39]
YET is the keyword… iPhone Security Closer.
Blog In the past 24 hours access has been obtained to a full interactive shell, which is a major milestone to enabling outside application development. So far, physical hardware changes are required to obtain shell access, full scripted access yet to come.
[July 9, 2007, 20:57 in On The Road by MobileTech]
Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
Talkback There is one IE shell that I use most of the time. If I am using an IE shell, is that using IE? This is something I have suspected for some time. I asked Onestat about their methods for compiling data on marketshare and they just did not bother...
About: Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
[June 23, 2005, 15:51]
A worm belies Apple's perfection
Talkback A shell script is not an exploit but rather it requires an exploit to be installed in the first place (or it would require physical access or an admin account username and password to be known. There are no known unpatched exploits for OS X that...
About: A worm belies Apple's perfection
[November 5, 2004, 14:39]
XP Nerd Trick 2
Blog In HKLM\Software\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\Shell replace Explorer.exe with the BATCH file as described in Not-so-Stupid Nerd Trick, a previous blog. It doesn't matter what the User settings are, the system never bothers to execute the the...
[September 7, 2009, 17:29 in Homebrew Blog by Xwindowsjunkie]
