Visit http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ and report a phishing page this is the response:

Report Sent

There is a Zero-day Adobe flash exploit being actively distributed in the wild using SQL injection attacks onto many websites (Securityfocus thinks about 20,000 or more). Reported to be a password sniffer.

Yet another reason to run the excellent Firefox addon NoScript.

Sources: 1, 2

I started writing for MakeUseOf, which is a blog for web application and other free, useful programs! I just posted an article on Ditching your cable company with free, legal alternatives.

Summary:

Ditching your cable company has never been more viable than it is today. The rise of online, streaming TV shows allows you to save on one of the most expensive household bills if you are willing to sacrifice a bit of the convenience of having either a cable box or DVR. The main question you will need to ask yourself is what shows you actually enjoy watching. Several name brand shows are now available online in free, ad supported formats; if your particular shows are not available then you may be stuck with your cable company, at least for now. More and more shows are always coming online, so keep checking back to see if your favorite show is available.

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I recently formatted my laptop and installed Windows first, using half of the hard drive, and then installing Ubuntu 7.10 on the other half. It had been a while since I tried Ubuntu – it has a come a long way – but that is another story.

The install worked fine, however at the end, it just sort of hung while installing grub. GREAT. I reboot and it kicks me to a (grub) standard prompt.

It took me a while to figure this out, but you can manually boot Ubuntu via the grub prompt. The tricky part is finding out the right commands since your system is totally inaccessible.

You can find your available hard drive name by typing:

> root ( <tab>

pressing tab will list your available hard drives and partitions and hopefully your Ubuntu ext3 partition.

Continue setting the root boot partition. This includes your partition with all /boot files. For example, mine was installed onto the root / filesystem, and not a separate filesystem.

> root (hd0,2)
>

This sets your root that grub uses.

You then need to set the kernel. Use:

> kernel /boot/vmlin <tab>

Tab will show you the available files to use. Also you can use this at any level to explore your filesystem. So for example:

> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-20-386

But wait before you hit enter!

You will get a pivot root error – the kernel doesn’t know where the rest of your file system is. In a file called device.map in your /boot directory, this location should be specified. In my case, it is listed as /dev/sda3. This is important for your kernel. Fortunately, GRUB has a ‘cat’ command you use to get the text output of this file. We also set this to a read-only filesystem – Ubuntu takes care of setting it back to rw when it boots.

So the final kernel line is:

> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-20-386 root=/dev/sda3 ro
>

Now we need to set the initrd file – hopefully you by now know to use to find this if you do not know it off of the top of your head:

> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.15-20-386
>

And finally, type ‘boot’ to begin the boot process:

> boot

Hopefully ubuntu will boot for you now without problems. Again, if you get a pivot root or ‘unable to mount root VFS’ error – you need to check the root=/dev/sda3 line part of the grub commands. This means that the kernel could not find your main filesystem.

Once you are logged into Ubuntu – use the following command to regenerate menu.lst for you. Once this is rebuilt, you will be presented with the normal Grub menu and you won’t need to follow the process above!

sudo update-grub

I’ve used RSS readers in the past – they are great for aggregating information from sites which I view. However – adding all of my daily sites, as well as all of my ’sometimes’ sites I quickly have 50 or 100 RSS Feeds and it is impossible to keep up to date on feeds because getting through all content takes forever.

Part of this problem, I’ve noticed, is that many articles around the web mirror each other – for example when the MacBook Air was announced, every site came out with a news item about it. That means I have to click through so many items in my newsreader to just mark it as read and make sure I haven’t missed anything.

So – what I am looking for is an RSS client which will not segregate each individual RSS feed, but create a mesh of all of them and highlight the important items, and somehow also promote smaller, less popular items that may have been missed by other sites. This would involve somehow analyzing the text and date of the post and correlating the items together. For less popular posts but ones that are nonetheless interesting, maybe create a ranking system based on social bookmarking sites like reddit or stumbleupon.

In a way this is done by some sites – Google News is one example of news sites; and TechMeme is another one for technology related items.

Does anyone know of a program, either online or offline, which will do what I am asking? If not, would you be willing to program it?