Back in Sri Lanka
Dammika wanted to know where the hell I was. Things have been pretty hectic for me since I landed in Colombo last Tuesday morning. Let me see… On Tue...
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Singapore
This is the last leg of my long trip back to Colombo. It's really cool that the Changi Airport at Singapore has free internet access. What have I been doing ...
Microsoft on ‘Rootkits’: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or "rootkits," that are almost impossible to detect...
A gift for my brother
My brother and sister teamed up to buy me this, so to return the favor I bought Julius (my small bro) one heck of an MP3 player. I ordered the SanDisk 1GB&nb...
My home away from home
It’s my last day here in Boston, so I cleaned up my desk and took a snap to capture the moment. Look at how MSF is all the rage now.
XP Sinhala Language Pack
Jinath has posted some screenshots of Windows and a Google page with the Sinhala Language Pack installed. Microsoft released the beta version of the Sinhala ...
Co0L, chEcK THis 0U+
Now, why would Microsoft need to publish this web page for parents to de-greek teen speak. D00D MIcR0S0PH+ R0x0r 4nD 15 w4y t0 k3WL! If you didn't understand...
Windows Beats Linux in Live Security Contest
Well, well, well. Now this isn’t what you get to see everyday. Paul Thurrott reports in his latest newsletter. During a live duel of sorts between back...
Dataset performance in .NET Framework 2.0
Andrew Conrad writes about Dataset performance improvements in .NET 2.0. For me these improvements are really, really good reasons to switch to .NET 2.0 as s...
SHA-1 Broken
Schneier reports that SHA-1 has been broken. ‘SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing.’ Time...