Archive For March 11th, 2004

New Mozilla Exploit

Ooer. Looks like a vulnerability in Mozilla. It doesn’t mention Firebird or Firefox explicitly but I presume they’re vunerable too unfortunately.

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Noise, Grain, Artifact Reduction – get rid of the scratches!

PhotographyBLOG links to a few interesting articles on photographic noise and defect reduction tools. Wow, the last link is a very lengthy article comparing different products! Unfortunately, only one application has a chance of running natively in Linux, it’s a Java app. The other apps might work in Wine. YMMV!

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The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC)

Mark reminded me to check out the The High Voltage SID Collection as I haven’t looked it up for several months! It’s a huge collection of Commodore 64 music all organised neatly for nostalgic types! I note that my old friend Merman/Andrew Fisher is mentioned in the release notes for the latest update. Looks like [...]

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Pics of the Day

Wow, several photos on photosig caught my eye this morning.. Porcelain sky – love the sky! On Maligne Lake – I want to go on holiday soon! Water Flower – great abstract photo!

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Dangerous Driving.. in Cork

I had to leave the office at lunchtime, and on the way back to the office I saw what was almost a very serious crash. Note, I said “crash”, it would have been no “accident”. Two lorries were in front of me, a heavy earth moving one and a container lorry. The container lorry driver [...]

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At least 173 killed in Madrid train bombings

30, 40, 173… the death toll rises. I heard this on the morning news as I got ready to leave for work. I texted Cachu in Madrid and she and her friends are fine, but they were watching it on tv. She couldn’t describe the horror of it. Last November, I visited one of the [...]

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