• delete - deletes the selected HTMl from the page you are viewing
• edit-page - places the page into edit mode, letting you change the content in real time
• syntax-highlight - Tries to syntax highlight any text you have selected

• php - searches the php.net website for the text you give it (i.e. try "php date")
• tinyurl - a simple extension of the demo tinyurl which gives you the URL in the preview window
• weatherforecast (work in progress) - an extension of weather which displays the next 5 days weather
• spell (work in progress) - checks spelling of text

Viruses in Space

The BBC Reports that Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS were infected with the Gammima.AG virus! As they don't have a direct internet connection, it is thought that the virus might have travelled via a flash or USB drive owned by an astronaut and taken into space. Doh!

Cool Space Tech

PC Pro blogs about the 'space cube', a 2inch cube that runs a 300mhz processor which boots redhat linux off of A CF card. Packed with ports (RJ45, USB, 3.5mm jacks, Serial, SpacePort and VGA to name a few), the compact metal chassis is remarkable and only draws 5W.

Edit C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\System\Remote Assistance\helpeeaccept.htm

• line 156: btnAccept.disabled = false;
• line 157: btnDecline.disabled = false;
• line 158: btnDecline.focus();
• line 159: DoAccept(); //NEW line Added for auto-accept
• line 160: ;

Edit C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\System\Remote Assistance\Interaction\Server\TakeControlMsgs.htm

• line 25: idBody.style.visibility = "hidden";
• line 26: alert( L_ERRACCESSDENIED_Text );
• line 27: return;
• line 28: }
• line 29: onClickHandler(0); //NEW line Added for auto-accept
• line 30: return;

This week we got hands-on with Intel's new ultra low power processor - the ATOM - a 45nm processor with 47 million transistors. Clocked at 1.6ghz, the Atom230 has an FSB of 533mhz, and consumes about 60W under full load.

The mini ITX motherboard we have has a single DDR2 memory slot, two SATA ports, IDE, built in VGA + Sound + Network.

• The processor is under the top heatsink - passivly cooled! The other heatsink+fan arrangement is over the 945G northbridge.
• The motherboard and CPU combo cost us £32 exVAT, leaving only a HDD, PSU and RAM to worry about

PC Perspective and ArsTechnica have comparisons of it against VIA's upcoming 'NANO' processor, but Intel have already hit the retail market whilst VIA's offering is claimed to be with us sometime this autumn.

Watch this space to find out what we've done with our ATOMs!

• Straight from a UNC path - \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\
• HTTP listing from a browser - http://live.sysinternals.com/

• Namespaces
  

  namespace NathanAGood;
  class XMLWriter 
  {
      // Implementation here...
  }
  
  $writer = new NathanAGood::XMLWriter();

• Removal of magic_quotes, register_globals, register_long_arrays, safe_mode

• Ability to encrypt a windows system partition/drive with pre-boot authentication (anyone who wants to gain access and use the system, read and write files, etc., needs to enter the correct password each time before the system starts).
• Pipelined operations increasing read/write speed by up to 100% (Windows)
• Mac OS X version

Security "guru" Bruce Schneier writes on Wired about how he runs a completely open wireless network. He thinks this is a good idea. Others disagree.

I for one, think he misses the most fundamental flaws in running an open network - the fact that strangers have access to your local network. From there, they can easily scan/exploit your local computers, brute-force your router login credentials, or poisen the ARP cache on your machines to perform man-in-the-middle attacks (to capture passwords, SSL sessions, voip phonecalls, http sessions) and so on.

Similar to the way Jeremy Clarkson didn't think anyone could do anything malicious when he posted his bank account numer and sort code in his newpaper column (he was proved wrong when monies were taken out of his account via a fraudulent direct debit), journalists quite often miss the point completely.