Aug
11
2010
Oh. Hello there.
Let this post mark the beginning of yet another probable lapse in updates which are soon to follow! I suppose since I went through all this effort to create this blog/website, I may as well take a few moments to update it, right? …Hello? Hey wait a minute, there is nobody here…
Nonetheless, I thought that since I’m here anyway, I may as well give a brief summary of what is going on and what I have planned – albeit not very exciting plans. If you’re still reading this, I suggest you take up a hobby. I digress…
Okay, so I may not have written any updates since…err…November, but I’m here to try and get the ball rolling again. My original plan was to write a technical article or a tutorial every week, but too many obligations/problems got in the way. Now with things settling down (kind of), I’m going to give this blog another go.
After spending the better half of two days scraping a rootkit off my fiancee’s system, I think I need to reevaluate my position on Firefox being the safest browser ever. While browsing some fairly innocuous sites (artsy sites she frequents), she somehow managed to infect her entire system – in a matter of seconds – with some very nasty malware. This is what we call, drive-by-downloading – simply visiting an infected website and utterly compromising your system.
It would appear, I’m (just about) ready to go public. Now with the site template coding and skinning out of the way, I should now be able to focus entirely on content. I’ll be passing around the URL on a limited-release basis to get some feedback about the looks, navigation and any browser bugs. From my own testing (FF 3.5, IE6, 7, 8), I think this site should work with the majority of browsers out there – it is 
Welcome Aboard, Internet User! You have reached the website of Máté Varga (as you may have noticed from the prominently displayed point-55 font in the header! Take a look. I’ll wait). If you’re reading this NOW, you’ve probably arrived here by Googling my name. If you’re reading this in the future, well, you have a very impressive set of skills.