Archives for 2015

December 23, 2015

First Website Ever is 25 Years Old

The first website ever created by British scientist, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, celebrated its birthday two days ago. The site is 25 years old. The website was launched on December 20, 1990. The original server is maintained by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Here’s an article about restoring the first web site.

December 22, 2015

Hitting Backspace 28 Times

Apparently, there’s a simple way to hack a Linux distro. Just hit backspace 28 times in a row and you’re in. This applies to systems that use Grub2 boatloader, which applies to pretty much all Linux distros. On bootup, you can bypass the lock screen by hitting backspace 28 times in a row, and it will send you to the grub rescue shell. Researchers say there is a bug that creates a memory error leak, which in turn opens up a rescue shell. You’ll need physical access to the keyboard to take advantage of this bug. Ubuntu, Redhat and Debian have already release patches, so you’re out of luck.

December 21, 2015

VLC on ChromeOS

VLC is considered by many as the swiss army knife of video players is finally coming to ChromeOS users. As you may well know, you can pretty much run VLC on any platform, from the PC, to Mac and Linux and to practically every mobile device. The last frontier was ChromeOS. The VideoLan team just made the popular player available now to ChromeOS users.