Flametoad

Usually I consider myself somewhat well informed, but somehow several recent waves of massive, automated attacks on web servers flew under my radar. This attack, which affected hundreds of thousands of web pages and thousands of servers, adds malicious code to web pages. The code is “injected” into a “SQL” server database, thus the title of my post.
The code that [...]

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Dell XPS 630
– Intel® Core蒂2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.40GHz,1066FSB)
– 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz -4 DIMMs
– Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
– nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
– 500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
– Dell Premium Optical USB Mouse
– Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
– Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
– Microsoft [...]

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Okay, here’s the setup: China to Use Weather Control at Olympics
and the money-quote:
If rain clouds are expected the Weather Modification Office can call on 1,500 staff with 30 aircraft to drop chemicals into the clouds to force them to drop their water early.
A further 37,000 part-time staff can fire additional materials into the clouds using 7,113 [...]

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Sorry posts have been hit-or-miss this week. It’s Spring Break, which means that the tadpoles are home and thus so am I. Thursday morning Tadpole 1 woke up with a wet, nasty cough, and in the afternoon Tadpole 2 developed a fever. When we checked her at around 8 pm she was 102 degrees.
I’ve also [...]

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Ordered a new laptop the other day. It hasn’t shipped yet, but this is what I’m getting:

Intel® Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce 8400M GS
160GB Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive, 7200RPM, for Dell Vostro 1500 [...]

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