Posts by Dean_

CyanogenMod 7.1 brings 24 Android phones into fold

Those were the good old days..

Running CM on the G1 and waking up to find a new release along with a couple of .1's

Major BT exchange titsup in power outage

GRR

Just been reconnected after almost 5 hours offline. Got to love BT..

Acer claims first Core-i7 Ultrabook

Finally

Finally a laptop with some I/O at the back. Lately, manufacturers have been putting the hinge/battery at the back with the I/O on the sides, this makes it incredibly awkward to use a mouse with something plugged into the side, getting in the way.

T-Mobile JavaScript comment stripper breaks websites

YUI Compressor

Why not just use a tried and tested tool?

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/

Many sites cookie-track users regardless of opt-outs

You'll want to see this

http://collusion.toolness.org/

Utilitybidder gets disconnected by developer

Right click > View Source

You may wonder why this site is offline, if you are reading the source then you are most probably a web developer that has been paid to change this.

I put this here as the company in question broke our contract and left payments outstanding, as a last resort I put their site offline, what else could I do.

Make sure you are paid up front, even if you have a contract, they aint worth shit.

Fake student hacker avoids jail over ID theft scam

Misused password cracking software?

Surely it's sole purpose is to crack passwords? You can't really misuse it..

Attack reads smudges to retrieve Android password patterns

Point out the obvious..

Anyone could of told you that.. you don't even need a camera, just hold phone at various angles and you can see the smudges.

The Reg guide to Linux, part 1: Picking a distro

What about Slitaz?

http://slitaz.org/

Masked passwords must go

ATM

So why do banks keep telling us to cover up the keypad when we use ATM machines?