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Adobe Responds to Flash Crash Bug.

As we have previously discovered, Flash 10.1 beta is not affected by the crash-inducing bug. Matthew Dempsky has been pressing this issue for quite a while. The news hits front page of Hacker News earlier this week and garnered more attentions.

Adobe has now officially responded to this bug. The fix will beincluded in Flash 10.1 that will be released sometimes in 2010. Considering the nature of this bug, Adobe should have included the fix sooner in the 10.0.x release.

I have been using ClickToFlash for a while to weed out those pesky Flash-based ads. In addition to that I have not been missing Flash on the iPhone and iPod touch at all. In a way I’m glad that the iPad won’t be supporting Flash plugin.

Seriously, I don’t really depend on Flash when surfing the web.

Note to Darren Carter, you need to dump the stupid Flash-based site of yours. Get a real webmaster!

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Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.1.3.

Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.3 (7E18) to address a few issues including the accuracy of battery level in iPhone 3GS, third party apps compatibilities and crashes related to Japanese keyboard.

No, this is not the iPhone OS 3.2 as in the iPad, let alone the rumored iPhone OS 4.0 that will be an A+ upgrade just like what Steve Jobs allegedly said.

iPhone OS 3.1.3

  • iPhone 3GS: iPhone2,1_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw 305.1 MB
  • iPhone 3G: iPhone1,2_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw 228.1 MB
  • iPhone: iPhone1,1_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw 238.3 MB

As usual, if you had jailbroken your iPhone, please refrain yourself from updating to iPhone OS 3.1.3 until it’s safe to do so.

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Up All Night Removing Malware From Windows XP.

Since the computer is needed 1 hour at 06:00 hour, I pulled an all-nighter to remove the malware from Windows XP. This malware is a vicious one. It is a memory resident malware and altered any executables ran after explorer shell was launched. It did not alter the executables and that’s why most Anti-Virus programs detected nothing at all.

I managed to remove the offending malware manually so I could get started with the process. Here I am six something hours later running final scans on the hard-drive or any traces of the malware.

So far, so good…