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Kryptowire’s discovery of malware in Android-based smart phones
Kryptowire announced on 2016-11-15 the discovery of malware in Android-based smart phones sold by, among others, Amazon US and BestBuy. The malware was allegedly created by Shanghai ADUPS Technology Co., Ltd. Kryptowire claims the malware sends all your text messages, all your contacts, all your call history, etc., to the domain names listed below. The […]
Read More → Kryptowire’s discovery of malware in Android-based smart phonesSSL Certificates issued by royalvulkan.com
A student came to my office today. His browser showed our fronter.com instance protected by a peculiar SSL certificate issued by royalvulkan.com. The norm for fronter.com instances are SSL certificates issued by COMODO CA Limited. The intrusive SSL certificate has a validity period spanning from 1996 to 2056, which is very odd. The certificate probably […]
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Error 30174-4 while installing MS Visio Professional 2016?
If you run into error 30174-4 while installing MS Office and related software, try running a full repair of the product from the Control Panel.
Read More → Error 30174-4 while installing MS Visio Professional 2016?msvcr100.dll missing?
After installing Autodesk Revit 2017 on a student’s laptop, the software started whining about missing msvcr100.dll. This was solved by repairing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, both x86 and x64.
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Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 and Autodesk Network License Manager
I was installing Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 in the wee hours today, and I noticed the Autodesk Network License Manager was installed in C:\Autodesk\Network License Manager. That’s a bit strange when C:\Autodesk has until now been a temporary location for extracting the setup files. I can confirm moving the files to a saner location like […]
Read More → Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 and Autodesk Network License ManagerServer on fire while running out of milk
Warning! Your server is on fire! Also, you are out of milk. Ref.: Linux Journal, Issue 267, July 2016, pp. 14-15.
Read More → Server on fire while running out of milkC++ draft standard N4604
I just learned about the new C++ draft standard N4604. I read Section 16.8 “Predefined macro names” and created this little test program to assess the compilers available:
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Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi
Read More → Fourth law of programmingLoonixes and stuff
Our product is broken, so just tell the OS not to use the broken feature and hey presto you’re a winner! Now stop bugging us with your Loonixes and stuff. Ref.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/1449005/comments/53.
Read More → Loonixes and stuffFreeBSD has mono
C♯ and mono are both a blessing and a curse. Most documentation, FreeBSD-specific or not, on the internet are more or less outdated. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places. It was really frustrating. Soon this will be outdated too. Start by adding lang/mono. Then add x11-toolkits/libgdiplus.
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