http://alterlife.org The world, according to AlternateLifeform. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:58:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google's malware detection program went a bit crazy for a short while today, marking every single search result as malware! Here are my screenshots: I wonder how many (million) other people spotted the event :) .order viagra international shipsbuy viagra next day deliveryorder viagra legal salesbuy generic viagrabuy viagra american expressbuy ... http://alterlife.org/2009/01/31/according-to-google-the-whole-internet-is-malware/ I've written about my internet connection instability worries before... Just to be sure it wasn't all just in my head, I wrote a simple script a couple of days ago and put it on my shell account at TX0.org to measure my connection satability. My system is a VAIO laptop; and ... http://alterlife.org/2007/07/12/tata-indicom-down-on-average-down-for-one-of-every-4-minutes-p/ As on June 13th 2007, 4 of the 20 most active projects this week on sourceforge.net are ERP related. http://alterlife.org/2007/06/13/opensource-erp-on-the-sourceforge-top-20/ That was made clear by the 409 people who clicked on an ad that offers infection for those with virus-free PCs. The ad, run by a person who identifies himself as security professional Didier Stevens, reads like this: Drive-By Download Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here! drive-by-download.info Stevens, who says he works for Contraste ... http://alterlife.org/2007/06/05/people-will-click-on-anything/ I'm in Munich! I landed here flew in from Bangalore last Monday, and promptly caught myself the death of a cold thanks to the climate change. The cold lasted much of the working week. Fortunately, I got much better in the weekend; so I could do some exploring ... http://alterlife.org/2007/06/03/a-walk-through-munich/ Now I'm paying through the nose for a Tata Indicom connection (30 Rs. a day, indeed). . . and I have not been able to get online for over a week. I'm not able to get anything done :( . Gaah, I hate my life. http://alterlife.org/2007/04/07/still-offline-thank-you-very-much-tata-indicom/ The connectivity from tataindicom does not live up to expectation. Connectivity is unreliable, and customer service is not so responsive. My advice: don't get yourself a Tata connection unless it's your very last option. http://alterlife.org/2007/03/20/back-online-a-footnote-on-broadband-connectivity-from-tata-indicom/ I ran into an interesting idea recently - Scientists are experimenting with the possibility of using DNA as an information storage medium. There seems to be a lot of work going into this topic as revealed by a quick google search. And it's not just a vague theoretical exercise. Scientists ... http://alterlife.org/2007/03/15/dna-for-data-storage-whats-on-your-genes/ After over 3 months of fruitless waiting for the BSNL chaps to wake up, I applied for a Tata Indicom (VSNL) prepaid connection. It took them 4 days to get through the formalities and bring the wires up to my house. And after a few hours of configuration pains, it's ... http://alterlife.org/2007/03/15/online-again-finally/ Port25 is the website of the Open-Source Software Lab at Microsoft. They seem to be quite busy. . . And the DO offer code for download :o ! They distribute their code under licenses which they call 'Shared Source Licenses' . There's a nice summary on Shared Source Licenses at ... http://alterlife.org/2007/02/27/port25/