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Browser Password Manager test
This is rather old, but still good (originally found it via the Pat’s Daily Grind blog): a security company did some tests with the password manager included in different browsers. And of course they slapped not one but two sensationalistic titles on it (“Google Chrome Receives Lowest Password Security Score” and “Safari Ties for Last…
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How to get random numbers into Yahoo Pipes?
In what follows I will present two methods for obtaining random numbers inside a Yahoo Pipes setup. The first method is based on obtaining the current timestamp and using it your random number. The advantage of this method is that it is quick (you don’t need to access third-party websites). This disadvantage is that it’s…
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A free, open-source, cross platform alternative to VirtualDub
I’ve been a long fan on VirtualDub, a great linear video-editing software (and it is also free and open source). The only thing which bothered me was the limited number of input/output formats supported. There were some forks of it, but they pretty much died off. However in the latest full circle magazine I think…
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Random Database Blogging
From the Database and Performance blog: Queuing Theory & Resource Utilization – a lightweight introduction into the field which explains why you don’t have linear growth all the way – at a moment you hit a magic ceiling and things get much worse. PostgreSQL Replicator is an other way to replicate your PostgreSQL database. Now…
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How to create nice surveys?
Disclaimer: I’m not a psychologist, this is just my personal opinion. There might be some reasons for this behavior, but it is still very annoying. Also, this is about free surveys where the people filling it out are making you a favor. If you provide some kind of compensation for their time (ie. pay them),…
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PHP security is scary!
I knew that PHP limits the amount of memory that one script can allocate, so life is good, right? Right? Wrong! Reading the documentation it states: Changeable – PHP_INI_ALL, meaning that you can change it using ini_set from the script itself. Even worse, it goes on to say: “Note that to have no memory limit,…
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Google broke the Internet!
Short summary: Google maintains a list of “malicious URL’s”. This list is used both to offer warnings on the search results and to warn users in third-party applications (like Firefox 3) via the Google Safe Browsing API. The format of the blacklist is such that arbitrary subelements of the URL can be used. This is…