Monthly Archives: February 2007

Archive, Operating System, Security

Mac – Eve of destruction

So less bytes and so deadly:
maceve
524946464407030057415645666D7420
1000000001000100007D000000000000
000000006461746120070300

I’m starting to get angry now, as I filed in this bug 1 year ago,
and there’s still no fix for such a trivial bug.
Also I filed it in as a security issue since you can crash every
Mac from remote with these little numbers, but Apple degraded it to
be cosmetic only as it is not possible to alter or execute
code.
I guess they’re not anymore interested in fixing Tiger, as the
Leopard is waiting for its victims…..

Hint: Check for zero values before dividing…..

Archive, Security

Mac – Eve of destruction

So less bytes and so deadly:
maceve
524946464407030057415645666D7420
1000000001000100007D000000000000
000000006461746120070300

I’m starting to get angry now, as I filed in this bug 1 year ago,
and there’s still no fix for such a trivial bug.
Also I filed it in as a security issue since you can crash every
Mac from remote with these little numbers, but Apple degraded it to
be cosmetic only as it is not possible to alter or execute
code.
I guess they’re not anymore interested in fixing Tiger, as the
Leopard is waiting for its victims…..

Hint: Check for zero values before dividing…..

Archive, Japan

What about the Tanuki ?

You might have heard it or not: A
Tanuki, seen almost everywhere around temples in Japan,
is a famous native japanese animal there. To be more precise it’s a
racoon dog.
While looking around for a nice picture of a Tanuki for my website
layout I just found an explanatory figure to better understand the
eight lucks a Tanuki is a symbol for.
tanukitanuki-statue

Archive, Hardware, Japan

Plen Skating Robot

This is the newest toy on the japanese
market, its name is PLEN.
And you’ll be surprised how easy this construction is balancing its
movement without any complicated sensors.This is PLEN skating,
controlled by a bluetooth mobile phone:

Here, you can see PLEN
skateboarding, in perfection, he’s a real pro:

And finally PLEN can
also play soccer:

The price for this toy is also very promising its only 2000 US$,
thus being the perfect gift for…. yeah someone you really want
something. Winking
Anyway, try to compare this price with the AIBO
or QRIO
?

Ah, one last thing:

My delivery address is on the frontpage Happy

Archive

More Theme Wrangling

to be continued… not yet finished,
stay tuned.More changes happened as you might have noticed.

The fresh green vine leaves are gone, and finally sakura
cherry-blossom is to become my final layout, for the springtime
at least.
(Hopefully browser-caching didn’t steal my show. So if you’re still
seeing a green/blue layout SHIFT-RELOAD your browser, or clean your
cache.)

I hope you like it, (too).

Kobaan