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The voice commands in the new Netflix app for XBox 360 are awesome! Now instead of…

December 11th, 2011 2 comments

The voice commands in the new Netflix app for XBox 360 are awesome! Now instead of searching for the controller, waiting for it to turn on, and pressing A, I can just say "Xbox, next episode!" to watch the next episode of a show!

The menu navigation / browsing is still easier with a controller, though. When you're looking at a list, it only shows the title / description for the first item on the page, you're limited to just the the cover art for the rest of the page. Though, I guess it might be possible to use the kinect pointer to view the others, I didn't try that. Was just using the voice commands last night.

Edit: Just tried waving at the tv, and yeah you can point at the other titles on the page to see the title / description.

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SimCity Deluxe for 10 cents today? VERY YES!

December 11th, 2011 No comments

SimCity Deluxe for 10 cents today? VERY YES!

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Ugh, spent last night removing malware from my website

December 11th, 2011 1 comment

Turns out I had accidentally left a folder world-writable on my shared host and another user's account had dropped a shell php file into it, and that infected the rest of my php files.Had a bit of fun dissecting the malware after I had cleaned it up, though. The shell lets the attacker run arbitrary shell / php commands as well a connect to and query mysql, and the base64-encoded block of php that was inserted into all my PHP files checks the user-agent for MSIE, and then modifies the output buffer to inject a <script> tag after the <body> tag that links to a file that infects MSIE users.

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