Over at http://public.youtranscript.com/ is a site, which is a bit special, named YouTranscript.

The folks there have developed a streamlined system for making transcripts of any YouTube video having good quality audio, uses the English language and is less than 10 minutes in length.  In fact YouTranscript ... more

On Windows, I've noticed that the copernic desktop search system tray icon, which is usually yellow and orange , sometimes turns blue .  It will remain this colour until an update to the index begins, but I haven't been able to determine what causes the change in colour.

Google came ... more

Nmap 4.75 was released on Sunday 7 September 2008 and, since it includes some great new features, I thought I'd mention a few of them here.  The currently available version of Nmap is actually 4.76 which was released on Saturday 13 September 2008 and which fixed some ... more

So let's say we want to poison the cache of nameserver.bigisp.com so that customers of a big ISP trying to find www.phatbank.com will be directed to a machine with an IP address of 69.118.105.108 instead of the real webserver at 83.97 ... more

Fast-flux Service Networks commonly are compromised hosts and part of a malicious botnet. They provide a layer of protection around a central "Mothership" to which they provide client access by blind proxy. The DNS records for the domain used to access the Mothership is a rapidly changing subset of the ... more

On Tuesday, 8th July 2008, multiple vendors published patches for Domain Name System (DNS) software after a coordinated effort to mitigate a widespread vulnerability arising from deficiencies in the DNS protocol and common DNS implementations which would allow DNS cache poisoning attacks. Earlier this year Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher ... more

At about 2015hrs UTC, I clicked a link in an email from one of my subscriptions to view a video sent to me and from there I tried to login. Strangely, rather than being directed back to the video I wanted to watch, I instead found myself looking at a ... more

UPDATE: 2008-06-29T23:08 +0100 UTC

There's now an easier way to import your del.icio.us bookmarks and tags into firefox 3. In a forum post at mozillazine.org, watanabe described a process using a ruby script (written by the same) to combine a firefox bookmark backup file (in ... more

"He's got a mouth like Low Moor Tunnel in a Fog" is a phrase I've often heard my parents say. My Mother said she first heard it from Mildred who was born and bred in Derby. We think it means something like "He's Loud" or "He says ... more

Here's a rough guide to building Amap 5.2 from source code for windows users. I've been playing with this rather old tool recently and noticed that the web update functionality is broken due to a change of location for the update files. I decided to patch the ... more