• Copy the folder name from windows explorer address bar and paste it into your document
• Copy the file name by pressing F2 and then Ctrl-C and again paste it into your document

So we have just 5 keyboard strokes and 3-4 window switches.
Situation is much worse when you’re copying the file path of network file. Then you could encounter multiple problems:

• You mapped the network path to drive letter. If you’ll copy the path as is then most probably someone who’ll try to use your path or hyper link from other computer or even from the same computer with different account won’t be able to access the referenced file due to different network path mappings.
• Server name you used in your file could be without fully qualified domain name and thus can be accessed in you LAN, but can’t be accessed through corporate LAN.
• Situation can be even worse if the path you provide will be used by users external to your network.

I’ve used different copy path applications, which usually integrated into windows context menu, but only one was really helpfull: Ninotech Path Copy 4
(I know there is similar Windows Vista functionality – never tried)
It allows you to copy the short and long file and folder paths, it allows to copy their UNC path and even Internet path in a form of file://…
But the best part is configurable copy path option, which I’ll cover in separate post (if at all, knowing my indolence).

Download from: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/13986.html
Original home page (was inactive last time I tried): http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm#pathcopy
Installation:

• Download the zip file
• Open it in a temporary place
• Right click on the INF file and choose install

Usage:

• Right click on file or folder you would like to copy its path
• Choose Copy Path submenu and then one of default copy methods or setup your own

Possible usages:

• Use current SAP NetWeaver implementation of JPA for simple ORM usages and create all needed services around it
• Put proprietary mature repository with stable codebase and vast offer of services as a JPA persistence agent and allow developers use it with a simple, but powerfull JPA programming model

So first steps is to find the simplest platform to experiment with. Plain J2SE JPA implementation seems very tempting.

“Even as phishers widen their nets, they are getting ever more focused on targeting financial services, which grew to 93.5 percent of all targets in July, according to the APWG report.

The report showed a drop in the number of unique reported phishing campaigns from 28,571 to 23,670, but the number of reported phishing sites rose steeply to 14,191, 18 percent higher than the previous peak.

The U.S. topped the list of countries hosting phishing sites, with 29.9 percent, followed by the Republic of Korea with 13.3 percent, China with 12 percent, France with 5.9 percent and Australia with 4.6 percent.

Attacks are getting more sophisticated, the group found, noting that a malicious site is now capable of placing a Trojan horse onto a system without user interaction. The Trojan involved, Web Attacker, is a Russian do-it-yourself toolkit sold for anywhere from $20 to $300. ”

In most cases user can handle phishing by himself, just check real domain against stated one and don’t follow stupid emails, but there are more sofisticated attacks:

1. DNS cracking and modification of system’s DNS settings to direct some or all DNS lookups to a fraudulent DNS server capable of directing users to fraudulent sites when particular addresses are entered.

2. Trojan horses. For example in some cases (IE someone told?) a malicious site is now capable of placing a Trojan horse onto a system without user interaction. The Trojan involved, Web Attacker, is a Russian do-it-yourself toolkit sold for anywhere from $20 to $300. “

3. Putting phishing pages on real brand domains, like Google phishing hole or PayPal flaw.

I remembered that there were already such cases in the world and found winning example pretty fast. Additionally there is a site dealing with all aspects of GPL violations. There is a lot of interesting info about this controversial license.

Got it today in my email box from colleague.

GPU doesn’t manage resource sharing in means of fairness, resources are managed based on simple and very familiar idea: take whatever you need (and we can give you), give us whatever you have (and want to give).

This principe can’t workout for internet, so they are talking about computer aliances.

Basically idea isn’t new. There were lot of theoretical work (Tuple Spaces, etc.), specifications (Java Spaces) and implementations (GigaSpaces).

There are lot interesting security and cryptography related info on their site. Specifically:

- New secure hash standard

-General description of their methods