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Anycast DNS and BGP

From /dev/random: Introduction to BGP. Also, some short videos on various networking topics from Infoblox.

December 26, 2008
Packetlife.net challenge solution

I mentioned some time ago the packetlife.net contest. I’ve remembered to check back for the answer, which can be found here. Basically, one of the OSPF fields is based on a timestamp. Very cool. Also, it shows how many equipments will break after the 18th of January, 2038 🙂

December 26, 2008
Disabling the Zoom plugin for Compiz

I was playing around with a 8.10 Ubuntu install and I must have pressed a key combination, because the screen magnification was turned on. It was all nice and smooth, the only problem was that I didn’t want it! (BTW, almost the first thing I turn off after a fresh WinXP install is the accessibility…

December 25, 2008
KDE 4.2 videos

Via the All about Linux blog: videos showing off KDE 4.2. They look very nice, although the abundance of the options might be confusing…

December 25, 2008
All things come to an end

I’ve woken up today to find that CastleCops is going offline (link from DISOG). From their website: Greetings Folks, You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. It has been our pleasure to investigate online crime and volunteer with our virtual family to assist with your computer needs and make the Internet…

December 25, 2008
New years resolution for webmasters

Graham Cluley gives some advice on the Sophos blog on how to secure your website. Unfortunately he can’t resist touting the companies horn, rather than suggesting a much more effective solution for this scenario: whitelisting. First of all, files on a webserver need to change very rarely. Executables almost never and it is useful to…

December 23, 2008
Interesting thoughts from the Sophos blog

Niall from SophosLabs UK asks: why does spam work? and gives an interesting answer: In his opinion, although we think that claims made by spam is very “out there” and wonder why people keep falling for it, in fact it is no worse that what we see in other media (like TV commercials). On some…

December 23, 2008
Mixed links

A list of rich content if you are bored have free time the following weeks: (Some) videos from the Fall 2008 Microsoft Bluehat security conference (from the extern SensePost blog). From PerlBuzz: Higher Order Perl available for free (legal!) download. I started reading it and already found some interesting tidbits. It always felt that Perl…

December 23, 2008
Modulo implies division!

When programming, if you write foo / bar, where foo and bar are variables, you usually instinctively thing “can bar be zero? do I need to add a check that bar is zero?”. However how many of you apply the same line of thinking to the modulo operator? I didn’t (until now – when it…

December 23, 2008
WordPressDirect reponds (in a spammy fashion :-))

I received the following comment on my post about WordPressDirect by “Marty Rozmanith”: Hello, I am the creator of WordPressDirect. I want to set the record straight, since your blog is contributing to the disinformation about our service. Forget the content publishing for a second…We save people time and frustration in setting up a a…

December 23, 2008

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