Please give one laptop.

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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a project that I`ve been eyeballing for some time now. The concept is very powerful. Provide a laptop to help the developing countries` children. Give them a tool to discover.

First I was skeptical about this. I would say, first lets feed them and then give them a laptop. But then my thoughts changed a bit. When you think about the greatest programmers, computer geniuses of this century, all of them had something in common. They had a computer.

Now let`s think about how many children in this world have access to computer, and how many don`t. To give us an idea, in the least developed countries the number of people who has internet access is 11 per 1000 person. roughly 1%. (WB/UN data) Out of that many who never had a computer, maybe one will use this computer and after X years, (s)he`ll develop an algorithm to make extensive data mining for health projects run twice faster. Maybe another one will develop an idea that will help his/her society… This laptop could be their first step. Technology is an enabler, even if we this is a shot in dark, we need to start somewhere.

This what you can do in the next 7 days. The laptop costs ~$200. You can buy one for your child and pay roughly $400.00 and a second laptop heads to a child in a developing country. It`s called Give one Get one. Give one Get one campaign ends on November 26th. For US citizens and tax payers this campaign is tax deductible.

You can get more information about this laptop built for learning and designed specifically  the children in mind by visiting their FAQ section, Vision and Mission sections. 

You the security enthusiast, if you want to know how you can secure a ten year old kid`s computer without using usernames, passwords, classic file permission structures, etc… please take a look at their Bitfrost Architecture. Very very good reading ; )

Cellphone usage on airplanes.

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It looks like soon we will be able to use cellphones on airplane travels. (At least over Europe) This article talks about new developments on regulations and technology.

Is there any place on earth where I can chill without a stupid person screaming his lungs out on a cellphone conversation around me?! The air travel has already became chaotic lately, and now I will have to deal with an idiot next to me talking all the flight… *sigh* 

How to clean the activexdebugger32.exe virus

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From Emre virus labs:

This motherfucker virus was living in my parents` computers. (Since I use Linux I don`t have any as usual…) And it`s a pain in the ass…

What the virus does:

  • Shares your drives to the world as PATRON1, PATRON2, etc…
  • Copies itself to any writeable devices around you. USB sticks are great examples.
  • On a USB drive, it generates an autorun.inf file and a copy of itself. Each time you connect your USB drive it infects your computer again…
  • It uses the CPU at least to 70%… Noisy bitch…

How do you know that you are infected:

  • Press CTRL+Shift+Esc buttons. You`ll see the activexdebugger32.exe process running.
  • You can see a copy of the executable (activexdebugger32.exe) in your USB drives if you enabled the STUPID Windows to show you hidden files.

How to kill the bastard and have a nice smiley day/night (It`s 3am ok?) If you kill your computer i`m not responsible.

  • Plugin your USB stick (if you have one)
  • Kill the process activexdebugger32.exe
  • Delete the activexdebugger32.exe binary. It usually lives under c:windowssystem32 (or c:winntsystem32 depending your Windows installation)
  • open regedit. Go to the top of the tree on the left pane. hit F3 (or CTRL+L) to open the search dialog. type, yes you know it, activexdebugger32.exe, NUKE the damn registry entries wherever it`s found. (Search until the end)
  • Go to the root folder of your USB stick and delete, yes you`re right again, activexdebugger32.exe and autorun.inf
  • Update: Motherfucker leaves more trails… Delete the file NESNELER.EXE (meaning objects.exe in turkish) under c:Documents and SettingsLocal SettingsTemp
  • Update: Delete all the files under C:windowssystem32 named: Ijl11.dll, KMON.OCX, KTKBDHK3.DLL, MSWINSCK.OCX, PAC, scrrntr.dll, scrrun.dll
  • Done.

Lastly, fuck microsoft and windows, have a nice life….

Update after 4 months: Damn I was angry when I wrote this. And it was 3 am. The entry was somewhat full of typos so i edited and changed some info. 😛