Windows Security alert on Ubuntu OS!

I was checking out some cites while preparing for the upcoming ICT seminar of 06CSE that to be held in Jaffna. Suddenly a pop up took me to the site freescanreveals.org. The site was showing a nice screenshot of 'my computer' showing the list of affected files, repeatedly prompting me to install the anti-virus to cure the virus attack. Funny! It has faked a Windows XP OS nicely on my Ubuntu 9.10. [ROFL]

Anyway the fake messagebox was so real that can scare any of the windows operating system user by using "System Security Antivirus" messages. It was a loop, so I had to forcefully shutdown the browser. Finally I confirmed from Spamhaus that freescanreveals.org is a reported attack-site posing as providing an anti-virus software.

Please make sure your virus identifies my operating system and acts accordingly.

Fortnight Reports and Presentations

Fortnight Reports depicting my progress on our Mooshabaya Project can be found below.
Fortnight Reports: FNR17, FNR16, FNR15, FNR14, FNR13, FNR12, FNR11, FNR10, FNR9, FNR8, FNR7,FNR6, FNR5, FNR4, FNR3, FNR2, FNR1

First Formal Presentation: 30/10/2009. Evaluated by Mr.Shantha Fernando. [83/100]
Second Formal Presentation / Viva: [Evaluation of the report and progress]: 10/12/2009. Evaluated by Mr.Shantha Fernando. [90/100]
Draft Report [75/100]
Third Formal Presentation: 24/03/2010. Evaluated by Mr.Shantha Fernando. [78/100]

Overall view of Mooshabaya

References - Mozilla Rhino Host Object
[1] Writing a Custom Host Object
[2] Tutorial: Embedding Rhino
[3] File Host Object

* Special thanks to JetBrains for providing the Open Source License for the Mooshabaya Project; Open Source License concept makes IDEA more FOSS-friendly.

Motivation and Llovizna

ClustrMaps is here being awarded as the biggest motivator for me to blog. Not kidding. It does give a huge encouragement. Isn't it good to see many people from different countries taking a look at our blog posts? But I should accept the sad truth that since they archive the map once a year, all those sweet red dots indicating the visitors will be gone in a few days, making the journey start from zero once more. For my future reference, I have just archived the 'dots' here.
Bookmarks of ClustrMaps or its facebook page is also worth visiting.

Is Delete() == Hide() for Facebook?

As you all may have noticed facebook was having some problems today, as mentioned here. Interestingly when I tried to delete my status message today, the prompt I got was as usual, "Delete post: Are you sure you want to delete this post?". But when I clicked yes, another message popped up "Unable to hide minifeed story: Failed to hide mini-feed story". After trying thrice it did delete. But what does this error message point out? Facebook never deletes stuff in real; it just hides them from your view.

So I feel unlike twitter, facebook deletion is not a permanent delete, but a mere hide. Once you put it there, it will be there for an unknown period of time. Of course, it is obvious that there is no way of permanent deletion* of facebook accounts. Aren't these a violation of user-rights? I'd better go and read the user agreement of facebook (only if I am that much jobless).

* Update: Seems they have enabled the permanent deletion option at the moment. Give it a try!

yay yay.. Blue.. Screen..

I hit into this blue screen while running my Windows XP on VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu. Anyway I could solve the issue with the help of this post. Frequent appearance of the blue screen on Windows OS makes me smile really 'big'.