hangout-disco - Renders a WebGL room with avatars for each participant of a Google+ Hangout, with the possibility to play music, etc. - Google Project Hosting. Fun - something like a virtual Hangout world.
Archive 30. November 2011
BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps • The Register. Net - Android phones infected with rootkit/keylogger. And if I read that correctly, the software was apparently installed by network providers and/or device manufacturers. Oh, of course, it's just a "diagnostic tool" - just like the various trojans for PCs are only remote maintenance tools ...
Zinc HTTP Components. Interesting project that has set itself the task of providing as complete support as possible for all aspects of the HTTP protocol. Interesting because they start from the protocol definition and not, as in many other cases, the HTTP implementation is only as far as it was necessary for the respective web framework.
I'm a confessed PyPy fan, and with version 1.7, PyPy has done a good job - the memory leaks of version 1.6 seem to be gone, and you can now run long-running processes (like a Tornado web server here in the post) with it. Especially for more complex template engines and situations where you work internally with larger data structures to produce results, it's a real alternative - but remember, PyPy needs more memory for the same work.
GemStone Seaside | About. About Seaside: there is a pretty cool virtual appliance (i.e. pre-chewed virtual disk image) for mounting in VMWare installations with a GemStone/S installation including Seaside and a Squeak as an IDE for development for this system. So if you want to see how the big kids work with Smalltalk, click here to download and try it out.
Security flaw: Fire hazard with HP printers? - Golem.de. Finally able to remotely burn down offices. Surely every hacker dreams of that. Thanks HP for this extremely useful feature.