TechTalk

Lol seams like I was hacked, some fool deleted all my wordpress installs, lucky for me, I had backups and I could get everything back to normal within about 30mins after I discovered the problem!

A valuable lesson was learnt, update update update…. I upgraded to version 2.5 of wordpress and about a day after 2.5.1 was released I just didn’t feel like downloading and installing all over again, oh boy was I wrong… lol the “hacker” even had a sense of humour, after publishing my online banking phishing scam post, he deleted everything and replaced it with bank-of-america.com lure sites… hehe. He probably was using fresh, newly created email accounts but they will be unusable in a while, expect some very nice A-grade German porn to hit your mailbox very soon…. just as a thank you for waking me up….

The issue regarding Phishing and Online Banking is one that has been discussed allot in recent times. Banks in South Africa have been especially plagued by this, every once in a while I have heard from friends and family that they received strange email messages, instructing them to fill in their internet banking credentials, as far as I can I have evangelized the anti-Phishing gospel, and have had success, my mother recently received an email message instructing her to change her Online Banking Credentials, lucky for her I had been brain washing her to just ignore any email which asks any information with regards to Online Banking! She took a printed copy of the email to her bank branch and at enquirers the person told her: “The bank sometimes sends out emails like that and that she didn’t have to worry about it”, I was shocked beyond believe when I heard this, how could a employee of the bank who works at enquirers, not know that this was a scam? Are the banks people not educated in the matters at hand!!
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In the recent months, I have been trying to cope with the constant attack of malware on all of my (windows) home pc’s. Feeling like I am figthing a war, trying to protect the users of the systems. Most of the times I needed to manually “remove” the infection from the PC’s because the anti-virus program, does not believe the infection is of a viral kind, this is like a Doctor telling a patient, hmm I can see nothing wrong with you, the blood pouring from your eyes is not a symptom of any known illness or virus, it is sure to clear up in a day or three. I think I will just ignore it…
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Jip, my eeePc has arrived form Taiwan! Thanks to the guys from qbitonline, I am very satisfied with the level of service I received from them. I have called my little eee Micro, and I have allready installed 2 gigs of Ram and a 8 gig sdhc card and I have replaced the old Xandros system with Ubuntu! And I have to say the little thing is quite something! Look out for a full review coming soon!

Yes, I am still waiting to receive the psp remote serial adapters I order from Hong Kong. The moment Ireceive these I will be able to complete my ps/2 keyboard to PSP interface. I hope to receive them before the end of the month…

I just received the serial/remote port connections I ordered. This was the last piece of hardware I needed to complete my psp keyboard interface. I might be able to release the first version after this weekend! Stay tuned for pictures and progress report.

I received a shipment of components I ordered, which I want to use in a couple of my upcoming projects.

On such component was the Microchip Pic18f4550, micro controller. It is a 8 bit micro with usb capabilities. Very nice I am in the process of design and building a dev board for it so watch this space for more info!

Last night i order my eee pc. 701 white. I can’t wait to get my hands on it it is going to be great, I predict it is going to be the gadget of 2008. I expect there to be a couple of revisions and new innovative models before the end of the year. There are already talks about a bigger screen version as seen at CES, and a touch screen.

The touch screen mod is the one hardware mod I am seriously considering. You can buy diy touch panel kits of ebay at reasonable prices.

I will be posting updates about my eee pc adventure as soon as I have the thing

I also got myself 2gigs of ram, and a 8 gig SDHC card.

I will be getting the first shipment of components today. So Hopefully I will be able to start on some of my projects by this weekend. First will be the home automation system, them the psp keyboard. But before all that i will be building a development and programming board for the micro-controllers I ordered, because the micros will be the core of most of my future projects.

I haven’t even started the development of my PS/2 -> IR -> PSP Interface, and I have a revision to the idea, well maybe an addition, or even a supplicant. USB keyboard - > Psp via serial or Ir. Ok just a quick post…