http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com Tue, 29 May 2007 00:40:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just wishing you all a very Merry Christmas as you remember the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/merry-christmas/ People for a very long time have been searching near and far for a solution to bridge the gap between the worlds’s financially wealthiest and poorest (United Nations 2001). Will the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) idea be the solution to the problem? This article will expose some of the ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2006/03/12/bridging-the-gap-with-the-one-laptop-per-child-scheme/ I’ve been working on a game the past couple weeks, it’s called Outer Maths. Some information about it: Outer Maths is a computer game designed to help bring some fun into Maths; it works by combining a thing students love to do, that is, play computer games, with Maths, a subject ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/11/13/outer-maths-v100-released/ The Australian Domain Authority (auDA) has released the results of a ballot to find out what .au geographic domain people want the most. In the end, perth.com.au was the winner, with cairns.com.au and margaretriver.com.au following behind. Overall, there was 10,000 applications sent in, covering a range of over 2700 commercial geographic ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/08/22/perthcomau-is-the-most-coverted-au-domain-name/ Update: After researching this further, origen is a spanish word for origin and in 37 days the Xbox 360 will be released in Japan, the origin of the Xbox 360. A recently registered domain, origenxbox360.com, has been registered by what it looks like Microsoft. The WHOIS has all the same details ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/08/20/official-xbox-360-countdown-by-microsoft-itself/ The SHA-1 encryption, now widely used for most cryptology applications, has been broken by a faster method, with research done by Xiaoyun Wang, Andrew Yao and Frances Yao. The new method can crack the encryption in 263, just slightly better than their previous effort of 269, and better than the ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/sha-1-broken-by-faster-method/ Google has recently updated and added new data for over 100 cities in their Google Earth program. In this it includes the Washington DC area, and Google has forgotten to erase out the roof of the white-house (which they have done previously). Click on the image for a full view. http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/08/19/google-forgets-to-erase-out-detailed-shots-of-white-house/ A new worm, called Zotob, has hit the internet recently by exploiting a vulnerability affecting Windows users. The worm scans random machines for activity on port 445. If a venerable machine is found, the worm is then downloaded from the scanners machine and copied to the newly-found machine. The worm ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/08/15/zotob-worm-on-the-loose/ Within 24 hours of the release of Microsoft’s new Windows Genuine Advantage tool, there was information on the internet to bypass it easily by pasting a javascript code into the address bar. About 11 days ago, Microsoft caught on to this method and blocked it. I was just retrying the ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/08/14/javascript-method-to-bypass-wga-still-works/ Have you ever been caught speeding by a speeding camera? Well if you have, you needn’t have to, as a case in New South Wales, Australia yesterday was thrown out of court because the Roads and Traffic Authority admitted that it can’t prove the authenticity of the pictures they take. ... http://ryanhemelaar.blogsome.com/2005/08/11/you-dont-need-to-pay-for-speeding-tickets/