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Blog moved to WordPress and new domain...

I've moved my blog to my own domain and onto a WordPress engine, CS + SPAM was driving me nuts!

Catchup posts: Oh yes, I've been in Japan for a couple of months, first 2 weeks of photos are uploaded on Flickr, I still havent had a chance to upload the thousands after.

Whats more, I've actually written some information about me so you can finally find out my sad sad way of life. See About Thushan Fernando.
posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:57 PM by Thushan Fernando

COOL TOOL: VMWare v6.0 has been released!

Something i've been eagerly awaiting, VMWare 6 has finally made it out of beta and into the open. I'm too tired to go through details (need sleep!), so i'll leave it to this internet.com VMWare article but try an evaluation version and see the VMWare Product Page for more information. The VS2005/Eclipse integration, VNC support and USB2.0 support is awesome if the 'Back in Time' feature doesnt sell you over.

Sleep time:-)
posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:28 PM by Thushan Fernando with 1 Comments

UPDATE: Security update for WMF Security issue from Microsoft

You heard it here first folks, the update patch to fix the WMF flaw just got released by Microsoft:

HIGHLY recommended download!
posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:21 PM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

WORKAROUND: WMF vulnerability work-around for Windows

In light of the newly found exploit for Windows Fax & Picture Viewer (when rendering a specially crafted WMF file) heres a quick way to reduce the impact whilst MSFT works on a patch is to unregister the main renderer shimgvw.dll (COM) library.

Run this to unregister:
regsvr32 -u %windir%/system32/shimgvw.dll
and later if you want to reenable it:
regsvr32 %windir%/system32/shimgvw.dll
Thats it! A patch should be available soon, until then its recommended to unregister the library, ofcourse images wont render without this library.

For more information on the exploit see Microsoft Security Advisory 912840.

UPDATE: Official Patch now Available

Well theres an official patch to fix this issue, for more information see my post UPDATE: Security update for WMF Security issue from Microsoft for download locations.
posted Friday, December 30, 2005 6:45 AM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

COOL Trailers: Serenity / IBM Ad

We'll I think I'll start a new part that has some of the more interesting trailers that stream in Vividas format every so often (maybe once a month)... so to get things started...

Serenity
We've got the first 9minutes of the movie in VIV (Vividas) format to view right here. Take a look, the TV Trailers made the look look like *** but after watching this I'm so going to watch it this weekend;-)

IBM
 What is Big Blue doing these days I hear you ask? Consulting ofcourse! This video's pretty well done, quite comical too.

Make sure when you run the player that  no Windows Media Player instance is in the background (or anyother movie  software -PDVD etc), if you notice a slow down thats probably that in the background...
posted Friday, October 14, 2005 5:12 AM by wsoftware with 2 Comments Rated Excellent [5 out of 5].

Write ASP.NET Applications for linux in VISUAL STUDIO.NET :O with Grasshopper you can!

Everyone likes Visual Studio .NET, but alas being MS technology its not very open to other platforms. Thanks to Grasshopper you can now use VS.NET to write ASP.NET web apps using their compiler that will digest MSIL over to java byte code and deploy it to Tomcat. Confused? Excited? Pee'd your pants? Ofcourse you are/have!

Grasshopper, the Developer edition of Visual MainWin® for J2EE™, is a Visual Studio .NET® plug-in, which enables you to use C# or Visual Basic .NET® to develop, debug and deploy Web applications and Web services that run on Microsoft® Windows®, Linux® and any Java™-enabled platform. Grasshopper supports single-source code development, so you can develop an ASP.NET application that will compile and run on multiple platforms. Grasshopper bundles the Apache Tomcat application server and PostgreSQL database, so you get a complete cross-platform Visual Studio development environment for any platform running Apache Tomcat.

Read more and download a copy!

UPDATE: I've got a few simple pages running on a linux box using grasshopper! w00t i feel so special!

posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:31 AM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

Netscape 8.0 Final Out!

Its finally here! Netscape 8.0 with FireFox / IE rendering engines has finally arrived.

Official Site:
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/

DDL:
http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape8/english/8.0/windows/win32/nsb-install-8-0.exe [ 13MB ]

I think Netscape did a wise thing, they cant compete with either browser so they create something that has both engines so users can dig both... I'm not sure i like the menus being *ALL* teh way to the right of hte screen but the UI is a fresh look:-) Looks like they've opted for a very customised version of hte NSI installer...

Just a note to someone in the browser industry, I'm craving for a feature where you can click one button on a toolbar that saves all the current destinations so the next time you load the browser it loads everything exactly teh way it was(something like the QuickExit feature in HotHTML 3). That way you dont neded to save all the pages as bookmarks and go back and find them the next time you need it... (IE 7 anyone?)

posted Friday, May 20, 2005 2:06 AM by wsoftware with 2 Comments