Malware: All Clear
I have removed the script from the last nooks and crannies, Google has lifted the malware warning. Nevertheless probably time to burn some bridges.
The ISA-Bus
One blog to bind them all.
April 21, 2012
Digital Pegasus
A Macintosh Paint image from around Christmas 1986, converted to PNG and cropped a little. Macintosh Paint supported only images of 576 × 720 pixels size.
April 21, 2012
Two Months on Tumblr
2,267 posts, 101 followers. My first post was Raphael’s portrait of Julius II.
April 20, 2012
Old Digital Art
Michelangelo's Creation from the Sistine Chapel, digitized in or before August 1992
Botticelli's Birth of Venus, digitized in or before August 1992
April 19, 2012
A Malware Warning and Some Consequences
A couple of hours ago I wanted to check something on my old site and got a malware warning from Google. Someone had hacked the site and put some sort of script (no idea what exactly it was supposed to do) on every page. I reuploaded the site and changed the FTP password, so there shouldn’t be any more problems. I asked for a review, but it was a bit premature, I had overlooked some quaint subfolders. In the meantime I hope I’ve really reuploaded, or deleted, everything that was infected, but it might take some time for the warning to go away.
The annoying thing is that most of my newer sites still link back to the old one, especially Download Central. Most of the game concept links went back to the old site, and all of the flags, as far as they were linked at all. I have now un-linked the flags and started building an index of game concepts right on Download Central. So far, it has eighteen entries. There are more than a hundred game concepts, so it may take a while till it is complete, but most of the links back to the old site should already be eliminated.
In any case: Download Central itself was never affected, nor any downloads, no matter where they are hosted. It was merely a script on the HTML pages of Astoria, nothing more.
April 14, 2012
What people on Tumblr like
After two months and more than two thousand posts on Tumblr I notice that just as before with the games, it still comes as a surprise to me what gets lots of reblogs and likes and what doesn’t. Tumblr does not list posts by popularity, or I haven’t found the way yet, so I checked those where I remembered manually.
April 12, 2012
A new flavor of the Nigerian scam
Okay, we’ve all got lots of these. But this one has a few new aspects:
Dear Friend
I know that you might be surprise on this mail, but I am telling you the truth. I know that it is against my official duty to release confidential issue like this to an outsider. There is nothing I can do to help you beside this, I am taking this bold step because of my belief as a Christian.
What I want to tell you is about your contract/inheritance and lottery payments with the Federal Government of Nigeria, there are a lot forces working against you right from the last CBN Governor Chief Sanusi and the immediate past Governor Prof Charles Soludo, they have been frustrating you by demanding upfront payment from you constantly, If I tell you that they are using all these money you sent to them to work against you, you might not believe it. But it is reality.
The rest is business as usual. But I don’t think I’ve ever had “forces working against me” before.
March 9, 2012
Some vintage Sega ads
Vintage is the big buzzword nowadays…everything is vintage…anyway here are a few Sega ads from around 1990, I guess. One of them promotes the Game Gear, which was released in North America in April 1991.
March 7, 2012
Facepalm, text mode
You’re familiar with facepalm, I suppose: Posting a picture of someone covering his face with his hand to indicate that you or someone else has done something incredibly stupid.
Captain Picard facepalm is popular facepalm
Now suppose you’re not on an image board, but on some forum where posting images is too much hassle or even impossible, think Facebook. Wat do?
