McAfee : Runs on Windows/Linux and from Police

1.    Strange is the heading and so is the story....according to the news doing the rounds in cyber space.Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee says he is moving every four hours to avoid Belizean police who wants to question him about the murder of his neighbor, a fellow American....how true or untrue is this ...m no one to comment....but being an ardent McAfee user for long on my various VMs....I would like to wish him the best.....more on the story that I read from is available here.....

Otome 3D : World’s first 3D-Printing Photo Booth

1.    At one of my earlier posts about 3D Printers about 4 months back,I had discussed about the phenomenal world of 3D Printers....the vast applications envisaged and what not...it is left to imagination of how do we use this technology....but then I could not find any commercially available products available to comman men.....but here we are....a company Harajaku in Japan will house the world’s first 3D-printing photo Booth by Otome 3D. This can ensure that you have your very own Madam Tussad-esque replica, up to 20cm, of yourself. The process involves scanning of entire bodies of subjects for about 15 minutes, after which, you are reproduced in material, to much awe and astonishment. More details about this at here

2.    Thanks http://www.newlaunches.com/

FEDORA 17 & VIRTUAL BOX : Virtualbox Installs but won't load

1.   This particular problem kept me busy the whole day....and in fact I reached a point of frustration that I should switch back to Ubuntu that I was earlier using.......so the problem goes like when I install virtual box via the rps and yum commands ...I used to invariably get some odd message that mostly included the following :

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing

'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'

2.    I would not actually lie about it...but i checked about so many forums that gave relatively the same solutions that you would have mostly found out by now...but to no avail...so the two command simple solution that would make you VB run like a horse without any issues goes like this :

yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-PAE-devel

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

offcourse you have to run this as a su -

3.   Do let me know if u r stuck on this again...the sets of commands that I run since morning as root are produced below for info only.BUt I am sure the commands above would solve your problem.

   21  wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

   22  yum update

   23  rpm -qa kernel |sort |tail -n 1

   24  uname -r

   25  reboot

   26  rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

   27  pwd

   28  cd /etc/init.d/

   29  ls

   30  cd vboxdrv

   31  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

   32  cd /var/log/

   33  more vbox-install.log 

   34  cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

   35  wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

   36  yum update

   37  yum install binutils qt gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel      

   dkms   

   38  yum install VirtualBox-4.2                                                                                  

   39  virtualbox                                                                                                  

   40  KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5-x86_64                                                        

   41  export KERN_DIR                                                                                             

   42  yum update virtualbox-4.2                                                                                   

   43  aptitude update                                                                                             

   44  yum install dkms gcc                                                                                        

   45  yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel                                                                     

   46  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup                                                                                   

   47  more /var/log/vbox-install.log                                                                                                                                                                    

   49  wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo                                   

   50  uname -r                                                                                                                                                                             

   53  rpm -qa kernel |sort |tail -n 1                                                                             

   54  uname -r

   55  service vboxdrv setup

   56  uname -r

   57  KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE

   58  export KERN_DIR

   59  virtualbox

   60  usermod -a -G vboxusers duqu

   61  virtualbox

   62  apt-get install dkms

   63  wget install dkms

   64  uname -r

   65  rpm -q kernel-devel

   66  uname -r

   67  virtualbox

   68  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

   69  more /var/log/vbox-install.log

   70  KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE

   71  export KERN_DIR

   72  virtualbox

   73  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

   74  uname -r

   75  yum install kernel-headers-3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE

   76  exit

   77  yum install kernel-headers gcc

   78  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

   79  exit

   81  yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-   

   PAE-devel

   82  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Do all ANTIVIRUS companies research independently ?

1.   Ever wondered how a Antivirus signature is made? Not so difficult actually....the answer goes like you detect a virus and then make a anti dote for that and subsequently release it as a signature.But as you think at a slightly larger level...i mean signatures being released by various antivirus companies for the same virus.Does each antivirus company re invent the wheel for each virus every time a new virus is detected..... Do they actually work differently to first find and then create a signature separately....Are all the viruses/malware's created by various hackers and agencies detected independently by all these antivirus companies?I doubt...!!!!But if my doubt is incorrect, then it is a SAD issue.....Because with the speed of population explosion of these various malware's and viruses....there can not be so many separate fighters and if there is one way to fight this gigantic threat...these all antivirus companies have to fight together...We should indeed realize that the threat is not individually existing to you and me but it exists to US...ie not United States...but you and me together ie ALL OF US....:-)

2.  But fighting together will not be so easy as the Economics of this War will defy competition ...so is there a need of funding at national level or at cross country level?Will it one day become a UN issue....ha ha ha!...like poverty..food scarcity and other issues being undertaken by UN,will there be a day when UN funds these antivirus companies because global dependency on IT is increasing and so are all vulnerable to so many threats.....:-)

3.   The earlier this is made a common issue...the more safer will the world become in future...because this threat is common to world...so should be the solution...

New Ubuntu AD takes on WINDOWS 8 :-)

Nothing to EXPLAIN here...one popular ad doing the rounds ti promote opensource UBUNTU..although not at the original Ubuntu Home page!!!!This comes just a week before Windows 8 Release..........