April 1 Conficker virus

Here comes April Fool Day, this Coming April 1 is a day to watch for us web users, I was curious enough for this day somehow and i have dedicated one computer for this one because of the conficker c thing. It was actually the third variant of the worms win32: conficker that hit the net in the web sometime in january. I hope i could soon extract and obtain the code and make a study of it. "Sabi ng mga Friends ko" this worm will activate at the same time all infected computer at the same time come April 1,2009..

All infected computers will come under the control of a master computer located somewhere across the web,as expected i assume all slave computer will become denial of service attack pawns, steal personal information, wipe your data drives, malware pop-ups and anything is possible. This is what is called a Botnet, in which computers are controlled remotely to spread the virus ,launch spam e-mail or even attack and shut down websites.
Microsoft has even posted a $250,000 reward for the capture of the virus author, but up to now they failed to catch that person.Initially once infected, the worm soft penetrated into the code of a computer and blocks security updates which could remove it and when activated.
Some noble ideas to make fun of this one is to have an patch that will force the clock to jump from March 31st to April 2nd, and then when the computer reads April 3rd, It will reset to the normal date “April 2nd”! But i think the author was clever enough that he would have had it launch for any day after April 1st.
So will just wait and see and what happen next..

Solar cellphone charger

A little soldering is all it takes to make this cool little emergency cell phone charger.

Please note, you'll also be cutting the wire on the cell phone charger, so make sure it's not the only one you have! You can often find cheap chargers at stores -- it doesn't matter if it's AC or car compatible, since you'll only be using the end that plugs in your phone.

MATERIALS:

• 1 Altoids Tin case
• 2 Mini Solar Panels (3V 20mA each)
• 1 Solder (3")
• 1 Small Heat Shrink Tubing (4")
• 1 Large Heat Shrink Tubing (4")
• 1 Double Sided Tape (3")
• 1oz Flux
• 1 Solder Iron
• 1 Heat Gun
• 1 Wire Stripper
• 1 cell phone charger

STEP 1: Cut wires & tubing

Take the 2 solar power panels and cut all four wires to about 1" in length. Cut 1/4" of plastic off of the tip of each wire with the wire stripper so copper wires are exposed. This exposed wire is called a 'lead.' Cut the small heat shrink tubing into four equal pieces (1" each). Slide the small heat shrink tubing onto both black wires.

STEP 2: Solder solar panel leads

Using a toothpick, paint leads with flux on a red wire from one solar panel, and a black wire from the other solar panel. Put those two leads together, and solder using your piece of solder and the soldering iron.

STEP 3: Heat-shrink tubing

Slide small heat shrink tubing over the leads you just soldered together. Heat the tubing with heat gun just enough for it to shrink.

STEP 4: Cut phone charger wire

Cut off the wire from your old charger to about 2.5 feet and strip off 2.5" of outer plastic from the loose end. Cut 1/4" off of each of the inside wires to make leads. Slide the full length of the large heat shrink tubing onto this main wire for later use in Step 6.

STEP 5: Flux, solder and heat-shrink loose leads

On your main wire, slide a piece of small heat shrink tubing onto the red wire. Flux all loose leads of main wire as well as the solar panels with the toothpick. Solder red leads from main wire and solar panels together. Repeat with black wires. Slide heat shrink tubings over these soldered leads and use heat gun to shrink.

STEP 6: Test charger

Test the charger by connecting it to a phone under bright light.

STEP 7: Heat-shrink solar panel leads

On your main wire, slide large heat shrink tubing over the two soldered leads which connect to the solar panels. Use the heat gun to shrink the tubing.

STEP 8: Tape and close

On the back of the solar panels, cover the two brass rivets with double-sided tape (so they don't make contact with the Altoids tin.) Tape the two solar panels on the inside lid of the tin. Tuck the main wire into the case and close. Go somewhere sunny (Florida is nice) and charge it up!

Source: Brian in DIY

Bayani Agbayani Nagwala?

When I heard the news on radio the way home from work,one thing caught my attention. It was the youtube video of Bayani Agbayani daw arguing/altercation with someone due to minor traffic accident. So what i did was searched it my self in youtube and it was very disturbing video indeed, bayani was not aware he was being recorded (unclear video) probably by a cellphone cam. But all of us have some commit mistakes in our lives and i believe bayani was not that bad otherwise he done what he is treatening to do. Wine spirit makes a person crazy, thats a logical explanation i could think of. Although he is intoxicated he paid the motorcycle he bumped while backing his BMW X5 of php 6,000.00. "Mukhang naisahan pa cya dito at tinaga pa cya dito sa presyo." Don`t know lang what is pissed him off to act that way..weird....
Just to increase traffic on my site i have posted the links..hit starts at 115,500 hits..let us see how many hits i would get from this link..
Hear it yourself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvinoXMRQo

Speed Up Firefox

Firefox is a powerful browser with extensions to do almost anything, but it's never been accused of being light on resources—and limiting your history size can help.

Every time your browser requests a page or image from anywhere, that data is stored in your browser history for a default of 90 days—for most of us that translates to an enormous amount of data stored in the internal history database. The Mac Tips and Tricks weblog has a quick and very useful tip to make Firefox load more quickly—just visit Preferences -> Privacy -> History and turn the dial down to a more reasonable 5-10 days. You'll need to clear your history or restart Firefox after you make this change, but in my testing the startup speed improved significantly.

If you want to keep your entire computer clean instead, you can set reader favorite CCleaner to run silently with a keyboard shortcut, or set it up to run on a schedule for hassle-free system cleaning—just make sure to include Firefox in your CCleaner profile.
Source: Lifehacker.com