Mac Defender kills Apples Security!

The well known scareware mac defender that has been around the last few days, was to be killed by Mac OSX Security Update 2011-003 but the scareware developer team killed the security suite within 8 hours! Apples Security suite isn't able to track MAC Defender anymore and the app looks legit again.

A new race has began between Mac OSX Developers and the on the come scareware team. Windows users now can look at apple mac osx with an smile ;) the malware future has begun and there are more to come!

Nokia announces new QT 5 Framework

Nokia have announced their plans for the year 2012 in desktop developing, they are planning to release the new Qt5 Framework for Linux their objectives for the next Release QT 5 are:

• Make better use of the GPU, allowing you to create smooth (and accelerated) graphics performance even with limited resources;
• Making your creation of advanced applications and UIs easier and faster (with QML and Javascript);
• Make apps connected to the web be as powerful as possible, i.e. to embed and power up web content and services into any Qt app; and
• Reduce the complexity and amount of code required to maintain and implement a port.

Nokia QT 5 Components for Desktop show off:

 

Youtube sucks so here is a screenshot of the Widgets and applets that will be possible, not so impressive as the video imho.

 

And thats how it looks on a MAC

If you are interested further continue reading: ROAD TO QT 5 by nokia labs

CHEERS

Diff and Patch a file in Linux

Yesterday i ran into an Problem, i needed to Burn an DVD+R DL and the file i needed to burn was at 300Mbytes and an DVD+R DL got a capacity of 8,4 Gbytes. So i used the standard GROWISOFS command to start a normal Burn i selected the file and i told me the following weird message:

growisofs: :( more than 50% of space will be *wasted*!
                      go use single layer disc for this!

My mind was, what the hack ?! Linux is Open Source but i never thought it is  ecofriendly, so tried a few commands but no way, it wont let me burn a DVD when about 50% of space will be wasted ...


 A search later i found an PATCH to apply to get rid of this problem. As follows this is the patch file needed to apply on the original growisofs_mmc.cpp before compiling the whole program.

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--- growisofs_mmc.cpp.orig      Mon Dec 28 02:58:51 2009
+++ growisofs_mmc.cpp   Mon Dec 28 03:00:12 2009
@@ -1622,11 +1622,6 @@ static void plus_r_dl_split (Scsi_Command &cmd,off64_t
     blocks = size/2048;
     blocks += 15, blocks &= ~15;

-    if (blocks <= split)
-       fprintf (stderr,":-( more than 50%% of space will be *wasted*!\n"
-                       "    use single layer media for this recording\n"),
-       exit (FATAL_START(EMEDIUMTYPE));
-
     blocks /= 16;
     blocks += 1;
     blocks /= 2;
@@ -2059,10 +2054,6 @@ pwrite64_t poor_mans_setup (void *fd,off64_t leadout)
                layer_size |= dvd_10[4+14]<<8,
                layer_size |= dvd_10[4+15];

-               if (data_size <= layer_size)
-                   fprintf (stderr,":-( more than 50%% of space will be *wasted*!\n"
-                                   "    use single layer media for this recording\n"),
-                   exit(FATAL_START(EMEDIUMTYPE));
            }
            if (is_dao && leadout)
                minus_r_reserve_track(cmd,leadout);

So to apply this simple patch file to our  growisofs_mmc.cpp we need to use the Program "patch" or "diff"

first i will guide you trough this patch file.

First Part:

--- growisofs_mmc.cpp.orig      Mon Dec 28 02:58:51 2009
+++ growisofs_mmc.cpp   Mon Dec 28 03:00:12 2009 
@@ -1622,11 +1622,6 @@ static void plus_r_dl_split (Scsi_Command &cmd,off64_t 

is the Description and some Info for the file itself, called lines of context...

Part Two:

the lines with an - in front of them are going to be deleted, the others are going to be changed.


So long we apply this patch with ->

patch growisofs_mmc.cpp < patch.txt

And voila this sould be the mesasge you'll get:

Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- growisofs_mmc.cpp Sun Feb 26 19:35:43 2006
|+++ growisofs_mmc.cpp Sun Feb 26 19:35:14 2006
--------------------------
Patching file patchtest using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2.
done 

The Google Patch :)

 No im able to waste Disks on my linux machine :D