Archive for June, 2008

Googlé ??

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I have a dead pixel on my LCD (boo hoo!), but its location is at the top right of my screen, its located precisely such that the google search box on the location bar in Firefox, when maximized (Firefox’s usual state), sits right above the ‘e’ in google written in the Google search box. When I read it, it reads Googlé. Thus every time I read it, I think I’ve somehow started my browser in French mode or something

I’d take a screenshot and show you all, but, well….. (For the slow ones out there, think about it for a minute, you’ll get it).

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Googles on IPv6

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Oh, and whilst I’m posting again, I noticed that google has an ipv6 version. I don’t know how long its been around for, but I’m pretty sure its new within the last 6 months. Nothing special to it, except its ipv6. Hopefully they’ll consider publishing AAAA records for all their domains.

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Faulty Firmware in routers UPnP implementation

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The news is out that Service Pack 3 for Windows XP includes a change in Windows’ UPnP core. This change results in some differences in the UPnP packets it sends. The issue however is that some routers, which have implemented the bare minimums of the UPnP protocol, and have implemented it poorly, crash when receiving these UPnP Packets.

Whilst this is news, why is it news here?

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