A week ago or so someone via Google Earth located what could have been the greatest scoop of – well I guess ever – the possible remains of the lost city of Atlantis (see picture), it was a large man made structure like shape in the ocean.
Sadly Google has come up with a different less exotic explanation, stating that its actually sonar tracks (yeah, I know sounds strange, but take a look at their blog for a more detailed explanation).
Bummer, it would have been cool finding Atlantis.
If you have ever had problems with autorun files in Windows (within a corporate environment) here is some good news for you.
If you, in your environment set up a GPO to disable autorun.inf to combat the spread of virus/malware you were likely dissapointed, yes the setting was propogated to the pc’s but it did not stop all autorun.inf’s from executing. The problem (among other things) had to do with complexities of autorun introduced with of USB devices (before it was only cd and disks).
Anyway, FINNALLY Microsoft has come up with a patch, lets just hope it works out 🙂 I have not had the opputunity to test it yet.
Patch should be introduced via Windows Update, for more details look here;u
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/967940.mspx
Update March 8th 2009, I tested the patch, and it DOES now work on network shares as well, excellent 🙂
Unless you live under a rock (on the moon), you should have heard about the court case against “The Pirate Bay” a torrent tracker site in Sweden, charges are piracy and aiding in committing piracy (well more or less).
If you find the case interesting you can follow it here;
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/yo_ho_ho/index.html
and here
http://live.piratpartiet.se/ (Swedish)
It is an interesting judicial dilemma, and I am quite entrigued in regard to what the outcome will be.