Zotob Virus Suspects Caught?

This is an Interesting development…

FBI nabs Zotob virus writers
WASHINGTON (AP) – Authorities in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two people believed to be responsible for unleashing a computer worm that infected networks at U.S. companies and government agencies earlier this month, the FBI said Friday.

Farid Essebar, 18, was arrested in Morocco, while Atilla Ekici, 21, was arrested in Turkey on Thursday, the FBI said. They will be prosecuted in those countries, the FBI said.

HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade

Interesting… Hack-a-day always has a lot of cool hacks, but this one peaked my interested.

Read on about this guy resurrecting his laptop, especially the part about his battery.

HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade – hack a day – www.hackaday.com _
I have been known to keep old hardware alive, long past it’s use-by date. Over the last year I acquired a couple of laptops. One of them had been smashed up (I think someone sat on it..) and the other got a drink spilled in to the keyboard. So I ended up with enough parts to make a cheap laptop.

Walmart hacked?

Looks fixed by now…but that is funny.

Looks like when you search for anything at walmart.com you only get Bibles… Hacked or is this what we’ve come to.. I want an iPod, no you want a Bible!

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Connecting to a SQL Server database from a Linux box with UnixODBC/PHP

Found this via Newsforge. I can talk to a MS-SQL server from linux using the Zend IDE, but I havne’t tried using unixODBC…

Green Leaf Technologies – Connecting to a SQL Server database from a Linux box with UnixODBC/PHP
This article explains how to connect from a Linux (or Unix) based server to an MS SQL Server using a combination of unixODBC and PHP. PHP’s documentation covers connecting to a SQL Server from a Windows machine running PHP, but not a Unix/Linux machine.