10 things to learn on April 11th

10 things to learn from the almighty WWW today:

How to: Prevent, Detect, and Recover from Router Worms

Recently, security researchers at DroneBL identified a botnet, named psyb0t, which attacks DSL modems and routers. It searches out and takes advantage of particular devices with ports opened to the Internet using a weak password. Once the worm enters a router, it blocks ports and could possibility do more damage by exposing sensitive information and/or attack other networks.

In this tutorial, we’ll review the types of routers that are susceptible to this particular worm. Then we’ll discuss how to prevent infection from this and other router worms. Finally, we’ll see how to get rid of the worm on infected routers.

Lifehacker – The Beginner's Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox – Virtual Machine

irtualization is a whole computer concept unto itself, at least on the server/enterprise/big-fancy-corporate level. For home users, talk about "virtual machines" generally refers to x86 virtualization. Basically, it's software that allows an entire operating system (the "guest") to run on another OS (the "Host"), whether in a container window, or full-screen, or in what's sometimes called a "seamless" mode, where just one application is run from the "guest"

VRT: Updating Software

Things to remember when updating software:

reddit all — customizable front page of the internet and epic waster of time

When is it “too early” for a new product? « counternotions

While this looks like a case of massive wishful thinking taking over sensible viability assessment, we can’t really be sure why the venture failed without inter-related facts and the benefit of hindsight. Fred’s conclusion? “Beware of ‘way too early’.” This does sound like good advice, except perhaps when coming from a VC, especially when contrasted to Peter Drucker’s dictum, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

Why funny guys get the babes – CNN.com

According to new research, women rate funny guys as more intelligent than guys who are not so funny. The research was presented this week at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference in Brighton, England.

"Over the course of history, women actively look for signs that their man is intelligent, and I believe the ability to actively judge the situation and pull off a joke and make you laugh is an intelligent feat," said Kristofor McCarty, a researcher at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, and author of the study, in an e-mail.

McCarty's study asked 45 heterosexual women aged 18 to 30 to rate various self-descriptions of men, some funnier than others.

Lifehacker – RBTray Minimizes Any App to Your System Tray – Windows

Free, lightweight application RBTray minimizes any app to your system tray. Once it's running, you can tray your windows in a couple of ways: You can either right-click the bottom-right corner of the minimize button to instantly send the app to the system tray, or you can right-click anywhere on the title bar and select Minimize in tray from the context menu (which also offers Always on top and a useless My size feature). The app doesn't require any installation, so you can also toss it on your thumb drive and take it with you. Even better, RBTray used a meager 380KB of RAM on my system. RBTray is a free download, Windows only.

Money Illusion : The Frontal Cortex

Consider two individuals, Ann and Barbara, who graudated from the same college a year apart. Upon graduation, both took similar jobs with publishing firms. Ann started with a yearly salary of $30,000. During her first year on the job there was no inflation, and in her second year Ann recieved a 2% ($600) raise in salary. Barbara also started with a yearly salary of $30,000. During her first year on the job, there was 4% inflation, and in her second year Barbara received a 5% ($1500) raise in salary.

As they entered their second year on the job, who was doing better in economic terms, Ann or Barbara?

As they entered their second year on the job, who do you think was happier?

As they entered their second year on the job, each received a job offer from another firm. Who do you think was more likely to leave her present position for another job?

135+ Ultimate Round-Up of Wordpress Tutorials | Tutorials | instantShift

It’s certainly no secret that I think the WordPress platform is the way to go in developing a web presence for any design professional who wants to do it on their own and control the result. What sets Wordpress apart from other blogging software are the many free templates, tutorials and extensions available through plug-ins to help you to achieve your goals.

With so many blogging software programs available, its often difficult to choose which is the right one for you. It’s important to take into consideration not just the up-front cost but also your future needs for advertising, categorizing, updates etc.

For those who choose to design their blog via WordPress route, Here we present a Ultimate Round-up of Quality Wordpress Tutorials which helps you to enhance your blog design and features.

Subsonic » Free Music Streamer

Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.

Subsonic is designed to handle very large music collections (hundreds of gigabytes). Although optimized for MP3 streaming, it works for any audio or video format that can stream over HTTP, for instance AAC and OGG. By using transcoder plug-ins, Subsonic supports on-the-fly conversion and streaming of virtually any audio format, including WMA, FLAC, APE, Musepack, WavPack, Shorten and OptimFROG.

Share and Enjoy: