Da Dogs Musings

September 16, 2005

Mozilla / Firefox Security warning

Filed under: Computing — Zoomdog @ 1:48 pm

Sept 9 news ..

While it was first discovered on Sept 6 .. it was officially announced on Sept 8 with the patch available Sept 9 .. nice work !! The Mozilla Foundation is aware of a potentially critical security vulnerability in Mozilla and Firefox browsers’ support for IDN, as reported publicly on September 8.- as listed on mozilla security page
Mozilla have this listed as critical.
instructions on update available here  according to zdnet new firefox and mozilla releases due soon  Hackers work to exploit latest Firefox flaw-zdnet  

September 15, 2005

Broad Band Thead

Filed under: Computing — Zoomdog @ 4:04 pm

You can get 5mb connection down and 1mb up + free phone (voip) + free tv (+70 channels) + media center via the modem
For 20€/month, not bad if you look 2 years back (56k for the same price)

Quote from a French citizen on hearing the Service we have here in Ireland- read the full thread..–as seen on Boards.ie

September 13, 2005

Spy.org – CCTV legal or not

Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, General — Zoomdog @ 11:53 am

CCTV in the uk found to be a breach of Human rights as sourced from spy.org.co.uk

To UFO or not to UFO

Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, General — Zoomdog @ 9:35 am

For the Sceptics and Believers

here is a local news report from romford (UK)

Have you had a visitation near you .. a Quick Google has thrown some of these links up

UFO Sightings in Ireland] Some more info here

More...

Edwards Air force base (another link here) Roswell Report UFO and Project Blue book

UFO EVIDENCE: A team of American scientists note that recent astrophysical discoveries suggest that we should find ourselves in the midst of one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. Moreover, they argue it is a mistake to reject all UFO reports since some evidence for the theoretically-predicted extraterrestrial visitors might just be found there.

UFO Conspiracy links

Pergrine Communication Reports Alien-ufos.com abovetopsecret.com

Final link Gary McKinnon Speaks out Gary McKinnon Case Details (PDF FORMAT) Free Gary McKinnon Blog 

Occam’s Razor

Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, General — Zoomdog @ 9:17 am

What is it … well according to this site .. putting it as The simplest explanation is usually the best. is probably over simplifying the the theory but worth the read anyway

and here is more reading from Wisconsin-madison philosophy dept 

War on Adware providers

Filed under: Computing — Zoomdog @ 9:06 am

So bad are the allegations that my sources tell me that the FBI & the United States Secret Service have started to investigate some of these companies for possible federal racketeering charges quoted from here

 Remember to rid your machine of Adware and spyware…. have the following installed Spybot Ad-aware Microsoft Antispyware Spyblaster Also a Good Antivirus is always needed and both Antivirus and anti-spyware/adware products kept upto date.  As Companies Grow and merge there are inconsistencies as can be read here  

September 12, 2005

Back to the Future

Filed under: Motoring Links, Movies — Zoomdog @ 1:46 am

Easter Egg courtesy of eeggs.com

When Marty is in the year 2015 and goes into the shop to buy the magazine that tells the winners of every past major sports event. Look in the window when he first gets there, what do you see? Oh my, it’s Marty’s jacket from Back To The Future part One!!

 Also

Why not visit bttf.com

Delorean Motor Company Delorean Owners Club

 Finally From Bigwaste of Space Here it their info on Film Locations

September 8, 2005

Scotish Geneological Link

Filed under: Historical / Genealogical — Zoomdog @ 4:00 pm

Just a link I Found interesting in trying to locate some of my Wifes family

Privacy .. ??

Filed under: Conspiracy Theories — Zoomdog @ 3:57 pm

Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns and research throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, medical privacy, and freedom of information and expression. for more read here

As sourced from The Global Internet Campaign 

Nerd TV (Free internet download)

Filed under: Computing — Zoomdog @ 3:38 pm

Among the names lined up for NerdTV in coming weeks are former Sun Microsystems guru Bill Joy, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, computing pioneer Doug Engelbart and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

click here

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