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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…
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Parse the camel
A quick note about the B::Deparse Perl module: use it to tame hairy (obfuscated) Perl code, even code like this. Use it like this: perl -MO=Deparse obfuscated.pl In the area of obfusctation, but more on the funny side there is Acme::Smirch and Acme::Bleach. Have fun! PS. You can exercise your skills on the perl one-liners.…
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Interesting site / videos
I finished watching the Crash Course from ChrisMartenson.com. It is interesting and slightly frightening. Although my BS detector had some faint signal (like saying on the front page “Chris Martenson, PhD”, only to find out on a closer read that he is not a PhD in economics), I’m no economist to judge how accurate the…
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I saw/read about SSLstrip – should I be afraid?
A friend of mine said that he saw the SSLstrip presentation from BlackHat DC 2009 and asked me if he should be afraid. Here is the advice that I gave: you shouldn’t be afraid. Fear is a bad motivator because it wants to force you to act quickly. A much better concern is informed concern.…
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Does Google Chrome prevent CSRF?
Some time ago I was reading the article Session Destroyer: Automatic Webapp Session Invalidation from the Linux Journal. It was a neat idea, however the part which peeked my interest was the following: Mozilla Firefox does not protect you against this attack by default. However, Google Chrome supposedly does because they implement each tab in…