Michael S. Clark

How cool is this? A German software company has developed a Java port of the every popular Quake2, and it runs like a charm.

We decided last night that it would be a cool idea to register on paddypowercasino.com so I can play the roulette. I made a tenner; not much I know, but w00t! Fantastic! Now I can watch pr0n and gamble at the same time!

After speaking to Gary today, he said he had read an article about the Sony DRM “rootkit” which made a very good point; namely, the software has all the classic symptoms of being malware, yet not one anti-virus, anti-spyware or software firewall package was (willing or) able to detect it. Isn’t it strange that most [...]

(to the tune of Stop the Pigeon!) I’ve been getting increasing pissed off about the level of spam comments this blog has been attracting recently, so I decided to take some action. I searched on Google for WordPress spam, and the first result to come back was this one. After reading the recommendations the author [...]

We’ve recently begun to use ClickOnce technology from Microsoft to deply our applications to clients, and it’s an excellent deplyment and update mechanism; far easier than ZIP-ing all your executables and associated files and FTP-ing them to every one of your clients machines. If you haven’y upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 yet, I highly recommend [...]

2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and is the last major chance to thank all those ordinary men and women who went on to do extraordinary things 60 years ago. Not just those on the front lines, but all the millions of people who worked hard at home and [...]

When Mark Russinovich was testing his company’s security software last week, he came across a disturbing find: a Sony BMG CD he purchased from Amazon had secretly installed DRM software on his PC and used “rootkit” cloaking methods to hide it. With the story sweeping across the Net, Sony is attempting to clean up its [...]

One of Laura’s cousins had a “Bop It Extreme 2” and was totally addicted to it so Laura thought it would be a good idea to get one in time for Christmas and frighten the parents with it. “Bop it!” Now I think we’re both going to need some sort of counselling for toy addiction. [...]

SysInternals.com guru Mark Russinovich has a detailed investigation of a rootkit from Sony Music. It’s installed with a DRM-encumbered music CD, Van Zant’s “Get Right with the Man”. (Mmmm, delicious irony!) The rootkit introduces several security holes into the system that could be exploited by others, such as hiding any executable file that starts with [...]