SteveX Compiled

My post on how to get linked to?  Here’s a guy that gets it.

This is one clever virus.  Here’s the summary on Slashdot: The algorithm used by the Sober worm to ‘communicate’ with its author has been cracked. According to F-Secure, it can now calculate the exact URLs the worm would check on a particular day. Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure, explained that the virus author […]

Windows Live Local is now live. Virtual Earth was a bit of a dud when it was released, but Microsoft has had a chance to go back and spend some time working on it.  How much better is it now? Um… better? I’m in Ottawa, and there’s still no satellite coverage of Canada.  The vector […]

I just realized I didn’t have any way for anyone to contact me on my blog, so I’ve added that. I already depend on spam filters to save me from the deluge, so I don’t think publishing this email address again will make it any worse.

The Ottawa Events site is doing pretty well; it’s fun watching a new website start up as users discover it and start using it.  Seeing the first search hits from Google, MSN, Yahoo.  One thing I want to do with this site (and the instances of this site that exist for other communities like Brantford […]

I’m trying to connect the XBox 360 to my music, videos, and pictures. The XBox 360 can connect to a service called Windows Media Connect, which in turn can connect to network shares.  This lets the XBox 360, which can’t be on my domain, connect to a service which is running on a machine which […]

Reading Digg and Slashdot, both of which are aggregators of popular content, it’s amazing how many of the articles that get posted are numbered lists. 6 Places You Must Use Ajax, for example.  10 things you should do to prepare a new Linux installation.  Top 10 System Administrator Truths.  Leonardo Da Vinci’s 10 Best Ideas.  […]

Microsoft says the number of defective XBox 360’s is less than 3% of all units, and that this is below the industry average (via Joystiq). Presumably these things are tested before they leave the factory; I wonder what happens on the trip between the factory and the living room that causes about 1 in 30 […]

Given that some folks are saying that VS2005 is unstable and unreliable, I just wanted to add a positive data point.  I’ve been running it (on a machine which also had the betas installed) and if I have had Visual Studio crash on me, I can’t remember it.  It certainly doesn’t happen often enough that I’d […]

There’s a whole world of hacking that the XBox 360 is going to open up.  But this one mentioned in The Inquirer isn’t one of them: CRACKERS HAVE already discovered a method of illegally adding MP3 storage capacity to Microsoft’s super soaraway Xbox 360. What the “crackers” have discovered is that the XBox 360 supports […]