I had dinner last night at, what I consider to be, a most unusual restaurant, Tropicana Singapore Laksa, in Bexley. What makes this place unusual is that every dish is cooked using sauces which Tropicana bottles and on-sells to the…
Stagefright – again :)
Unfortunately it is not the stagefright you are probably thinking about 🙁 Stagefright is the name given to a malicious program which can affect over 1 billion Android phones. Yes, you heard that right – ONE BILLION ANDROID PHONES. That…
Malaysia’s national anthem – almost
Update : *Ahem* I am beginning to feel that I should not have put up this article 🙂 I have been challenged by my reliable source for saying that the Tengku wrote the Malaysian national anthem. What I had meant…
Dodgy Windows 7 update
I have spent most of today trying to determine the veracity of the claims about this Windows 7 update debacle. OK, these are the facts I have managed to find out. Firstly, the dodgy update does exist. It was first…
Windows 7 Update Warning
Microsoft accidentally delivered a test update for Windows 7 yesterday. As yet, there is very little news about the update anywhere but there are reports that the update renders computers inoperable. At the time of writing this, there is no…
Cisco tool for SYNful Knock
It appears that SYNful Knock is still a matter of interest to serious computing professionals as I am getting hits referred from Google on my website searching for information on it. Cisco, via their Talos Intel group, have released a…
IT Support bad boy :)
Most of us have dealt with IT support and it is not always a pleasant experience. Having being at both ends, i.e. asking for IT support and giving IT support, I can understand why users don’t always get what they…