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Mixed links
First of a nifty tool for all of you (us?) people using RDP: Terminal Server Ping Tool. What’s even better, it’s written in Delphi and the full source code is available. Opera 9.5 is out, making problems with older versions obsolete. At the same time, via the the Think Vitamin website, Opera Dragonfly. This seems…
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Subscribing to a members-only SMF forum via RSS
This is one of those bug or feature? cases. I’m member of an online forum which uses Simple Machine Forum (or SMF for short. This is a members only forum, meaning that if you are not a member (or not logged in) you see a very little subset of the forum. Now I would like…
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Flaws in the Cisco PIX appliances
Via NetworkWorld (emphasis added): Crafted TCP ACK Packet Vulnerability Crafted TLS Packet Vulnerability Instant Messenger Inspection Vulnerability Vulnerability Scan Denial of Service Control-plane Access Control List Vulnerability The first four vulnerabilities may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition and the fifth vulnerability may allow an attacker to bypass control-plane access control lists (ACL).…
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Story cards
This is really nice: From the Atlassian Developer Blogs
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Humane markup language
I’m always searching for methods to make my blog postings better. And by better I mean: Easier to write. This means both speed (because I already spend quite a lot of time with different side-projects) and less formatting-cruft to add (so that I can concentrate on the actual content) Offer useful features to the readers…
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Defense in depth for programming
Two things you should always do when developing in Perl is to use strict and use warnings (with the caveat that warnings should be disabled in production systems or redirected to a log file). However recently I was reminded that nothing is 100% (and this isn’t a compiled-vs-interpreted issue, because there are many errors compilers…
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Microsoft and the “Not Invented Here” syndrome
A couple of days ago I was listening to a recent episode of Hanselminutes (a great podcast BTW) about Distributed Caching with Microsoft’s “Velocity”, and the only thing I could think of was: How is this different from memcached? This is why MS should be broken up into smaller divisions: to keep them from reinventing…
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Resolving the problem with inserting formulas in OpenOffice with Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
While writing some text (under Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy with OpenOffice 2.4) I wanted to insert a formula and much to my surprise the Insert -> Object -> Formula way grayed (greyed?) out. My first reaction was that this is probably because I was missing Java (or more precisely: OpenOffice didn’t recognize my installation of the…
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Disabling mod_deflate for certain files
I received a question regarding my compressed HTTP post. It goes something like this: I want to use a PHP script as a kind of transparent proxy (that is, when I request a file, it downloads it from an other URL and serves it up to me), but mod_deflate keeps eating my Content-Length header. My…
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Automated analisys
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are my own, and unless expressly stated, do not necessarily represent the views of any former or current employer. Automated security analysis is good for dealing with a large flux of (possibly) malicious files, however information resulting from these types of sources must be clearly marked as such (as oppsed…