Personality of Innovators

5 personality of Innovators - Which ones are you?

Brenna Sniderman wrote an article on 5 personality of innovators. In summary, those are:

1. Movers or Shakers
2. Experimenters
3. Star Pupil
4. Controllers
5. Hangers On

So which ones are you?
Check out this interesting article at Forbes (Online)

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What to do when you are in 'black-out' mode?

Schlesinger, Kiefer, Brown wrote an article about how you can maneuver from being 'black-out' condition (simply don't know what to do) to a condition whereby you'll always know what next to be done. There are four steps listed by them and those steps are:

1. Start with desire
2. Take a smart step as quickly as you can towards your goal
3. Reflect and build from what you have done from taking the step
4. Continuous repetition of step 1 - 3

Read the full article at Harvard Business Review

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IETC-RFC 6561 - Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in ISP Networks

Dear All,

IETC (Internet Engineering Task Force) has release a recommendation for remediation of Bots in ISP Networks (Release for Comments) number 6561 (ISSN: 2070-1721). Lead by Livingood and shared by ISOC.org.

It can be viewed from ISOC site or view from here.

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Latest Conference List - As of 21 March 2012

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) In Medicine and Biology 25 March 2012 Ein Bokek Israel 
• CSR Data Management 19 April 2012 London United Kingdom 
• CampaignTech 2012 19 April 2012 Washington DC 
• Cairo ICT Trade Fair & Forum 26 April 2012 Cairo Egypt 
• M2M WORLD CONGRESS 2012 26 April 2012 London United Kingdom 
• The National Higher Education Information Management Strategy Forum 2012 22 May 2012 Sydney Australia 
• The landscape of Canadian language: word nerds gone wild 01 June 2012 Ottawa Canada 
• expo:QA 04 June 2012 Madrid Spain 
• Agile Development Conference West 10 June 2012 Las Vegas NV 
• Better Software Conference West 10 June 2012 Las Vegas NV 
• International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT'2012) 16 June 2012 Bangkok Thailand 
• International Software Radio 20 June 2012 London United Kingdom 
• 2012 3rd International Conference on Signal and Information Processing(ICSIP 2012) 07 July 2012 London United Kingdom 
• 2012 2nd International Conference on Strategy Management and Research (ICSMR 2012) 23 July 2012 Singapore Singapore 
• 2012 International Conference on Nanomaterials and Electronics Engineering - ICNEE 2012 24 July 2012 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 
• 2012 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ICIKM 2012) 24 July 2012 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 
• 2012 2nd International Conference on Circuits, System and Simulation (ICCSS 2012) 03 August 2012 Hong Kong China 
• 2012 International Conference on Mangement Technology and Science (ICMTS2012) 04 August 2012 Dubai United Arab Emirates 
• 2012 3rd International Conference on Construction and Project Management (ICCPM 2012) 04 August 2012 Dubai United Arab Emirates 
• LCBR European Marketing Conference 2012 09 August 2012 Munich Germany 
• National Conference on VLSI, Signal Processing and Communications(NCAVSPC-2012) 11 August 2012 Hyderabad India 
• 2012 International Conference on Computer Technology and Science (ICCTS 2012) 18 August 2012 New Delhi India 
• OWASP Information Security India Conference 2012 24 August 2012 Gurgaon India 
• HLS- Israel's third leading annual event for Homeland Security 11 September 2012 Airport City Israel 
• Third International Conference on the Image 14 September 2012 Pozan Poland 
• The Green Data Centre Conference & Exhibition 18 September 2012 London United Kingdom 
• The 6th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies AICT2012 17 October 2012 Tbilisi Georgia 
• 6th International Conference - ICACCT 2012 03 November 2012 Panipat India 
• 10th International Scientific Conference People, Buildings and Environment 2012 07 November 2012 Lednice Czech Republic 
• 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology 15 October 2013 Waltham MA 

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The cost of delay on Internet

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/infographic_how_much_does_a_one-second_page_load_d.php

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Improved Recursive Function that is not improving at all

#include #include void printIntegesr(int n); main() {    int number;    cout << “\nEnter an integer value :”;    cin << number;    printIntegers(number); } void printIntegers (int nom) {     cout << “\Value : “ << nom;     printIntegers (nom); }

The above is the original recursive function which will definitely put the program in infinite mode.

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#include #include void printIntegers(int n); main() {    int number;    cout<<“\nEnter an integer value :”;    cin >> number;        printIntegers(number); } void printIntegers (int nom) {     if (nom >= 1)           cout << “\Value : “ << nom;      printIntegers (nom-2); }

What is wrong with the above 'improved recursive function'?

Not sure? Guess what will happen if the condition is met? It will print out the value and then move to the next step and continue to call the function again. What if the condition failed? It will just call the function again. And this will continue in a never ending loop.

The above two code is extracted from a lecture note. An email has been send to them for confirmation.

How to solve that?

Here the fraction of it on how it can be solved.... have fun trying. BTW, the above infinite loop code will allowed hackers to hack into the program :)

void printIntegers (int nom)
{
    if (nom >= 1)
          cout << “\Value : “ << nom;
    if ( nom < 1 )
         exit(1);
     printIntegers (nom-2);
}

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Anonymous is good and Google is dirty word

1. Anonymous is 'good' for security
Exploits of hacktivist group help improve companies' security posture by exposing vulnerabilities, but its threat remains despite key members of the group being arrested, security insiders warn. Read detail at ZDNet Asia

Comments:
The author said that the group is good to business of security company but put up lots of damages to the effected victims. As for me, the good of them is absolutely more than the bad things. After all, there are also white-hat hackers whom get paid for hacking. This 'Anonymous' do it for free and what they did is beyond capability of white-hat hackers. Why? Because the managed to hack without getting information from the victims whereas the good hackers had preliminary discussion first before hacked and they normally hacked what is allowed. "Your best friend is Your ENEMY. He will describe everything you are exactly including your weaknesses" - Sun Tzu in Art of War.

2. 'Google' a dirty word in healthcare services.
Two days ago, I returned to the healthcare services provider, where I had done the examination, for a review of the results and to get any advice on problem areas I might have with regard to my well-being.

I was told I had borderline cholesterol levels, so I asked the doctor what foods I should avoid and what I should consume more of to bring the numbers down to the normal range. Her reply? "Go Google it."

Read the full article at ZDNet Asia

 

Comments:

The author is sharing her friends experience on meeting a doctor that proposed her to 'google' for sample of healthy food and how frustrated the person was when he/she was expecting a good proposal from the doctor. And there are few comments too.

Yes, I do agreed that the 'Internet of Things' started by Google and other IT giant had make people like me gone lazy on sharing our expertise and advises. It is a bit tired of saying same things continuously. Thus, by putting the information on the NET and make it available for access to all is much easier and reduce the tense. However, the information in this 'boundless' world should not be used as total information. It should be used to enhance knowledge thus ensure when you met a doctor or expert, you can discuss better and get better input.

That's all my comments on this two articles.

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Using Flex HTTPService to handle RSS with PHP

If you are using HTTPService in flex or using flash actionscript to handle RSS feed, you might found that not all RSS feed is supported by flex. This is due to flex can only access any feeds that have cross-domain.xml in their root directory of the web-server.

What happen if the website supplying the feed don't have cross-domain.xml or limited to certain website to access it by defined rules in the xml files. How to handle that?

I found a way with the help of php.

As usual, in your flex applications, you will have this line of code:

showBusyCursor="true" method="GET" resultFormat="object" />


and somewhere in your code, you have it called
myHttpSvc.url = "";
myHttpSvc.send();

and you php should contains this line of code:
class rssfeed{
    public function getRssFeed($urlAdd){
       return file_get_contents( $urlAdd );
    }
}

$sp = new rssfeed();
echo ($sp->getRssFeed(%_GET['urlToPass']));

That should do the trick. Now you can access any rss feed any feed into you flash / flex code without worrying about cross-domain.xml anymore.

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Comparative Analysis on 7 Commercial Anti-Virus

This is a report on comparative analysis done by PassMark Software on seven known commercial anti-virus tools. The comparative analysis is done on:

1. ESET Smart Security 4 Business Edition
2. Kaspersky Business Space Security
3. McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint
4. Microsoft Forefront Client Security
5. Symantec Endpoint Protection
6. Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection
7. Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security: Standard Edition

The criteria used for evaluation are:

1. Installation and configuration
2. Migration
3. Default Policies
4. Client Installation
5. Interface Design
6. Client and Policy Management
7. Remote Management
8. Updates
9. Common Use Cases
10. Effectiveness
11. Performance

Based on the comparative analysis done, ESET came out first and followed by Kaspersky and Symantec. For detail reports, please get it here.

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I'm looking for comparative analysis on free/OSS antivirus tools as I believed many home/personal user will used this rather than spending extra pocket money to used commercial anti-virus product.

On the other hand, this evaluation is more generic evaluation. I do preferred a detail analysis on Effectiveness and Stability and Zero-day attack prevention capability which is not performed here. Anyway, it can be a baseline/guides for those who wish to buy any of the seven commercial product for their business needs.

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Learn HTML5 and CSS3 with Microsoft

	Learn how to use Microsoft developer tools Visual Studio 2010, Expression Web, and WebMatrix to leverage the full potential of the new HTML5 APIs such as Canvas, Web Workers, Geolocation, and others. See how your application can realize the full range of HTML5 features using IE9's hardware accelerated graphics, the new "Chakra" JavaScript engine, F12 developer tools, and more. HTML5 Canvas Tutorial Learn how to create a visual library for a large image collection using HTML 5 Canvas. David Cathue walks you through the HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript needed to build this data intensive, browser application using Visual Studio 2010. Read the complete tutorial. Learn HTML5 in 5 Minutes! This tutorial walks you through some key areas of HTML5: semantic markup, canvas, audio and video, and shows you how to use HTML5 while retaining support for older browsers. Read the complete tutorial. Mobile Video with HTML5  If you are hosting progressive download video and audio on the web, supporting HTML5 video and audio can help you extend the reach of your content. Learn how to make your HTML5 video play on mobile devices. Learn more. Canvas vs. SVG: An HTML5 Comparison Guide Canvas and SVG are important components of the HTML5 graphically rich Web but each has its own strengths and limitations. Read this comparative guide to learn when to use one particular vector graphic technology over the other. Read more. HTML5 Web Workers: The JavaScript Multi-Threading Approach Learn how HTML5 Web Workers can help you take advantage of today's multi-core processing environments, dramatically improving the performance of your applications. Read the complete tutorial. Browser and Feature Detection: Make your Website look Great Everywhere When you're building a web site, you want it to look great in any browser -- this article provides hints, tips and best practices that will help your sites look their best. Learn more. HTML5 Gaming: Animation in Canvas with EaselJS When you write casual games using the HTML5 Canvas element, you need a way to handle your sprites. This tutorial shows you how to use the Easel Javascript library to use your existing sprite elements and animate them. Learn more. Accelerate Your HTML5 Game Development Using the power of accelerated graphics, this tutorial shows you how to develop your very first brick breaker game -- ripe with special effects -- using HTML Canvas and SVG. Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know There is a lot of excitement around HTML5 and for good reason. Why is it important and how can you adopt it in your applications? This article explains how, and shows you some exciting new tools that can help.

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Fedora Users and Developer's Conference

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developer's Conference, an opportunity for all who contribute to or use Fedora to meet, learn, plan, and hack. This event is free and is open to everyone.

For detail, check out the site at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:KualaLumpur_2012

Come and join Malaysia in this exciting events

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