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EthicalHacker.net compromised
Today I was greeted by the following e-mail in my inbox: EH-Net Compromise Disclosure EH-Net was compromised a few months back, and we are asking all members to immediately change their passwords. Although we do not hold any sensitive data such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, date of birth, etc., we still realize…
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Mixed links
A new security Linux distro announced: SUMO Linux Notes on hardening Apache – some of them is not applicable if you are installing Apache from packages. I liked the idea mailing the admin whenever the server is (re)started. IWF causing problems for archive.org – interesting. While it wasn’t intentional, it was more an interoperability issue,…
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Draw a bunny!
So I joined a useless but fun meme started by Andreas Gohr. As you can see, my artistic skills are not that good, but it is still fun to experiment. I tag kurt wismer, Dan Dascalescu and LonerVamp.
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Yahoo! Briefcase closing
Apparently Google isn’t the only big web company closing down some of its offering. I got this email today: I didn’t use the service, but some of my readers (all 2 of them :-p) might, so watch out. As a security side-note: it is nice how Yahoo attaches a little icon to their “official” mails.…
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PostgreSQL data corruption issues
Lately I’ve been helping out a friend with PG data corruption issues. Usually PG is pretty good about data consistency, but it too can fail under extreme conditions (multiple power failures, fsync=off in the name of speed, no battery-backed RAID controller). The interesting thing I didn’t realize, is that your transaction log can get corrupted!…
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8bit music
I was checking out the site of the hugi e-zine the other day, where I came over the next announcement: 22 December 2008: News: CGM UKScene Radio is back online News from Solorize: "I have decided to start up the station again! With Nectarine being down I thought I should start streaming again as I…
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Quick tips for installing PHP + IIS7 under Windows 7
If you are trying to install PHP under the default configuration of IIS7 with Windows 7 (and presumably Vista & Server 2008, but I observed it under Win7), you might run into problems (for example getting “Service Unavailable” errors). Here is how I managed to fix them: First, make sure that you’ve installed all the…
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Mixed links
Multiple websites on Windows XP – links to IISAdmin. It doesn’t seem to work 100%, so caveat emptor. From the as days pass by blog: Opera Web Standards Curriculum. A nice addition to the Sitepoint references. Google apologizes for the Japan fiasco – in big company it is hard to enforce standards across the board,…
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Migrating feeds over to Google Feedburner
I migrated over the feeds from Feedburner to Google Feedburner. Everything seems to went well and hopefully there won’t be any problems. All you need is to signed into your Google Account, after which you try to sign into Feedburner and it will automatically offer to bind the Google account to your Feedburner account. Hopefully…
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Massaging DVDs
A couple of tools that can be used to move around DVDs (and video files in general). All the tools are free, many of the open source. Some of them might include additional programs (like toolbars), but they can be deactivated during install. Sorry for the list being Windows centric, but I was a Windows…