Thursday, February 05, 2004

States I've visited are shown in red on this map. [Scripting News] 7:55:58 PM

MySQL: Building User Interfaces MySQL: Building User Interfaces Posted by timothy on Thursday February 05, @05:00PM Craig Maloney writes "If you are a Windows programmer looking to create or move your stand-alone database applications away from Microsoft-specific tools such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Access or SQL Server, MySQL: Building User Interfaces is written just for you." [Slashdot] 7:29:37 PM

Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware  Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware Posted by michael on Thursday February 05, @09:35AM from the improvise-adapt-overcome dept. FatCat writes "SecurityFocus has a story about a group of hardware and software hobbiests specializing in embeddded systems who've released their own custom firmware for Motorola Surfboard cable modems. The firmware lets you log in to an interactive VxWorks shell, or issue commands from a Web browser through an http interface. You load it by tapping an undocumented console serial port on the circuit board. So far, uncappers are apparently the primary consumers, and they're downloading up to 400 copies a day."  [Slashdot] 10:59:33 AM