Apparently a zero day PDF exploit is still on the wild, targeting unpatched Adobe Acrobat users. Here’s an actual exploited PDF file (with the XMP payload removed to prevent script kiddies from using it):

Viruscan: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/ac0da53fe0e1ba5a0cece750df99facf167c4f84
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Enjoy! Tutorial will come soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWIJdOv3bdQ

If you’re using Microsoft ASP.NET AjaxToolkit’s AsyncFileUpload placed inside a webform nested in a master page, chances are you’ll be faced with a baffling error message “The file attached is invalid”. No amount of manual troubleshooting and breakpoint-ing help because there’s no complete error messages (or even any that makes sense).

The reason: The client side script got confused because it couldn’t find the predicted ClientID.

The solution: Add ClientIDMode=”AutoID” to your markup!

Developers new to Active Directory programming might find it frustrating that the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider example codes provided by Microsoft does not seem to work, at least on Windows 2008 R2 with ASP.NET 4.0 using “logon” usernames eg. “administrator”, “domain\joe”.

The reason is because the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider by default maps username to as UPN username (User Principal Name, ie. joe@domain.com) instead of SAM account name (Security Accounts Manager, ie. administrator, domain\joe).

To enable logging on using SAM account name, add attributeMapUsername=”SAMAccountName” to your web.config:

They are many reasons why I wanted to get this meter working in Linux. But whatever your reason is, this guide is for you.

Screenshot of QtDMM 0.8.13 reading of the N56FU. This screenshot was captured from an Asus EeePC 900 running Ubuntu 9.10.

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