Well yesterday was Alan Turing’s birthday. I would have said something sooner but this is the first time I’ve really had a chance to write. In case you didn’t notice the Featured Content Gallery (thingy at the top with pictures that show up and disappear) was not working. Being that I’m trying to make this site as best as I can I basically devoted two full nights till ad nauseum to fix it. Which as you can tell is fixed. If I never see another line of php, or jquery it will be too soon. Anyways-Happy Birthday Alan, your gone but never forgotten. Now lets down to brass tacks.

Alan Turing (23 June, 1912 – 7 June, 1954), was a brilliant mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst (code breaker). He also so happened to be an open homosexual in a time and place where it was illegal (the UK) and condemned because of it, even criminally charged. The same crime Oscar Wilde was convicted of about 48 years earlier. How very dandy! However he lived his life, he is the creator of the Turing Test, the famous test to tell whether your talking to Artificial Intelligence or a human. Alan is considered too be the “father of computer science”. I mean the man built a computer program to play chess with, and there wasn’t even a powerful enough computer. He had to wait for one to be built. His life is slightly shrouded in mystery being that he was involved with Bletchley Park (look it up). Even his death by cyanide may not be accurate due to his prior work, but the world may never know. We do know that Alan Turing is one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, and a personal hero of mine. So Happy Birthday Alan, if you we’re here I’d give you a hug, but don’t touch my butt. Again…

If you know anything about computer companies and how they got there names. We have this man to thank.

Finally graffiti gets a face life. Well sort of. Apparently ignored by the mass of stupid people in the public, a sneak few have been “throwing up” (means doing graffiti) right in front of your eyes. These select few have taken it to the next level. No I’m not talking about throwies or digital graffiti however fun that is. Shh. I’ve very fun. They are wheat pasteing curors, writing 404 on street grates, and even going so far as to stencil. Eat that Banksy you has-been. I’ve seen some pretty witty stuff in my day, even doing some pretty witty stuff but I’d like to take a moment to recognoize my fellow geeks who like myself do not view graffiti as destruction of property, but as a way of expression. This is not a forum for debate. This is just my view. Now shut up, and scroll down and enjoy the fruits of their labor. Graffiti bianary stylee. Boiiii.  (along with being a geek I am also a 1980′s hip-hop affectionado, seriously)

These are just a few. See if you can find more, or better yet go out and impress the world. Or that hot girl who knows hip-hop is not a dance its a culture and take her bombing as a date, but rememer two things. You never heard of me, and keepy it geeky.

Malware hunters at Symantec have discovered a direct link between a malicious file embedded in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 software and what appears to be the first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service attacks.

Writing in the current issue of Virus Bulletin (subscription required), researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli found two malware variants — OSX.Iservice and OSX.Iservice.B — using different techniques to obtain the user’s password and take control of the infected Mac machine.

[ SEE: Mac OS X Malware found in pirated Apple iWork 09 ]

The variants have been found inside bogus copies of iWork ’09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 which were shared on the popular p2p torrent network. The author of the malware downloaded the original/trial versions of each program and introduced a copy of the malicious binary into the packages. Users who then downloaded and installed the applications from the torrent download would have been infected. It is estimated that thousands of people have downloaded the infected torrent files.

They describe this as the “first real attempt to create a Mac botnet” and notes that the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes.

The researchers pointed to this blog entry that describes a a PHP script, running as root, launching attacks against an unknown Web site.

The article goes into detail on the botnet’s peer-to-peer engine, startup and encryption capabilities and configuration file structure and concludes that the person who wrote the malware is not the same as the person who actually ‘used’ it.

“The code indicates that, wherever possible, the author tried to use the most flexible and extendible approach when creating it – and therefore we would not be surprised to see a new, modified variant in the near future,” the researchers added.

I hope this doesnt affect the iPhone. or my MacBook for that matter. Its a dark day for the macworld. Apple Fanboys will be wetting their beds for days. I already put plastic down.

In the begining there was Apple.