I have an attempt at redesigning the Notepad++ logo using the new style of icons presented by Microsoft for their Office suite. Here's how it evolved. Warning: I'm not a professional designer! The Inspiration Microsoft office got some new icons, and I thought they looked very nice. A modern refresh of the old look. Then I noticed that of all the icons sitting on my taskbar, the old notepad++ icon stood out as the ugliest. So I decided to try and redesign it with the same kind of design style that was used in the new office logos...

Today, I'll show you my current Vivaldi setup as of June, 2019. New tab Page My new tab page, which I call "My favs", is pretty minimalist with only a few shortcuts to my frequently used sites. Overall theme My Vivaldi theme settings My overall theme is what I call "neon blue" where the icons are blue and the background is pure black. This theme makes the browser look slick. The image to the left shows the settings to replicate my theme. This is my current Vivaldi setup/theme. Fell free to comment you feedback on my theme.

General greynoise stats - 12th June 2019 As we seem to be eternally blue about the Windows network access vulnerabilities, and the latest botnet threat, I thought before I take cover I will have a look over the battlefield. Spotting the new GoldBrute botnet is not as easy as with other activity so I thought I would look at related activity and current big spikes, seen by the GreyNoise site to see if there is a correlation https://viz.greynoise.io/stats I looked at the common exploits and scanners that obviously relate to GoldBrute, SMB, RDP, EternalBlue and BlueKeep. Most show what appears to unusually large daily counts over the past few weeks. There are other filters that you may find also show correlations. All slides captured on 12th June 2019 BlueKeep is thankfully not yet on the radar other than a few scans. The EternalBlue SMB exploit has seen a recent surge in "popularity" even though the patch has been available for over two years. LOOKS_LIKE_ETERNALBLUE (Peaked at 1234 on the 5th of May then dropped to normal, but now accelerating fast) ETERNAL_MS17_010 (Saw a big spike on the 14th of May at 1062 and dropped off. Now leapt to 2015 per day) SMB_SCANNER_HIGH (jumped to 971 per day. Previous peak was 357 on the 26th of April last year) SMB_SCANNER_LOW (just jumped through the roof at 5271 per day. Previous peak over the past year 330 per day on the 20th of May) OK what about RDP exploits and scans...

This post originally appeared on an old blog on 1st August 2013. It's part of a series of posts which I'm "recovering" from the archives. The topic of this post deals with Virgin Media and some technical trouble I seemed to be having. I guess that's still a thing that happens. Full disclosure - the issues mentioned here are 6 years old. [edited lede 2019]...

Does what it says and reloads tabs / pages in intervals until you hit the stop button for that page. The interval can be set individually for each page. You can choose any interval you want as default interval. Unloads if the last tab was set to "stop" to free up resources. Name: Auto-Reload.crx Size: 13340 Bytes (13 KiB) SHA256: 88ED2F0BDD550EF168FA80F46565FB495D469DC3DC55F48712E1A15DE1A4F748 Download To install you need to: Unzip it (optionally rename to .zip if your unzipper doesn’t recognize .crx as .zip) Look into the source to see that it is clean (optional, but recommended) Open vivaldi://extensions and switch to developer mode Click the “load unpacked” button Navigate to the folder where you have unzipped it Click “OK” or: Open vivaldi://extensions and switch to developer mode drag’n’drop the file to the window (not recommended, because it is too easy to install malicious stuff this way, see disclaimer.) Disclaimer I am no experienced coder and you have now be warned about it, so USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Other than that: I tried to check for all cases and linted the code, but I can not guarantee that it e.g. doesn’t clash with other extensions or work as expected with the browser, doesn’t delete all data on your drive or even work at all on your machine. PS: I totally forgot to put malware into the extension put a coin miner into the extension rewrite all links to amazon and ebay to affiliate links connect to external servers to pull other stuff in later do any logging of any kind do other nasty stuff that I have seen several times while checking extensions from the chrome web store

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Browse the web without advertising, without the need for extensions or anti-ads scripts. Avoiding intrusive and malicious adverts. The business model of the World Wide Web is to generate revenue in exchange for content and it is very good. The drawback is when you lose performance, bandwidth, web experience, generated by intrusive advertising. Added to data mining, it simply makes the browsing experience intolerable. There is a heterodox way to avoid annoying ads and is to configure the router, mobile device and Personal Computer. The vast majority of operating systems in the world, use Windows, so I'll take care of protecting those extremely vulnerable computers. First We Go type ncpa.cpl and modify the DNS to: 198.101.242.72 and 23.253.163.53 Comparative of Browser Without and With Alternate DNS Modifying the router and Wifi devices If you are a company and you modify the router you can generate conflicts with the Internet provider's policies. But if you are a natural, non-juridical person, you have the right to modify the router to your liking, to optimize the process of loading bandwidth, MTU, DNS and that's what we're going to do. According to your ISP (Internet Service Provider). There are several ways to enter the router configuration, the most generic 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 10.0.0.1, another alternative is to talk to the administrator and ask for the username and password. DNS Section: 198.101.242.72 & 23.253.163.53 for LAN 23.253.163.53 & 198.101.242.72 for WAN In the mobile devices is a little easier, just search in advanced network configuration, Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP), click on Properties press for 10 seconds your wifi user and manually modify your local network, subnet mask, the gateway and DNS. Thank's for your attention.