Price: $1.99, Version: 2.0 -> 2.1 (iTunes) Description: Penny Saved not only helps you budget your money… It helps you save your money! User Reviews? “Nice Interface. Very intuitive and quick and easy to log expenses. This app should pay for itself.” “This app changed my life. I didn’t realize how much money I...
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Anyone running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 needs to update their registry ASAP. A critical bug in the Help and Support center was made public recently and Microsoft has neither a fix nor an estimate as to when a fix might be available. Worse still, sample code to exploit the bug is readily...
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Security experts have warned that hackers are already exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Windows Help and Support Center, just days after a Google researcher published exploit code for the attack. Tavis Ormandy went public with the CVE 2010-1885 vulnerability last week, having given Microsoft just five days to develop a fix. The flaw affects...
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we thought it fitting to compile a list of free green-inspired iPhone apps that promote continued environmental awareness. Although incredible progress has been made in this movement over the past few decades, the fate of the environment still hinges on immediate action from all of...
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To kill all processes of a particular user from root at unix prompt type: # kill -9 `ps -fu username |awk ‘{ print $2 }’|grep -v PID` We can also use the username as an argument and pass it from command line, if this command is put as a script.
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There is nothing more frustrating for an Administrator who has to reboot system due to fork bomb (the number of processes in the system reaches the maximum limit when a user, even a superuser, tries to execute some command, the system will respond with Vfork failed) In Solaris under SPARC, this can be controlled...
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The creation of many temporary files in Unix during compilations, occupies a lot of memory space. This can be got rid of by using a simple script. find $1 \( -name a.out -o -name ‘*.o’ -o -name ‘core’ -o -name ‘*.ii’ -o -name ‘*.ti’ -o -name ‘*.class’ -o -name ‘*.pur’ \) -exec rm {}...
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You used to have to set up ip addresses, netmasks, gateways, and name resolvers all manually. Refer to any basic networking text to learn more about this aspect. These days DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) is very popular. Let’s assume that a DHCP server (typically inside your Cable/DSL modem) and issues all the network...
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It’s the publicity around zero-day bugs that drive Windows users to patch their software quickly, not the fact that Microsoft sounds the alarm by issuing an emergency update, a researcher said today. Windows users rush to patch whenever a zero-day vulnerability is involved, even when Microsoft doesn’t deliver the fix in an out-of-band update,...
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