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On IP, the Universe and everything
I’m getting old or something, because I seem to rant more an more. Much of this text is contained in an e-mai sent to the .NET Rocks podcast regarding their OOXML show, but I thought it might be interesting to publish it here to clarify my views on IP, OSS, the universe and everything 🙂…
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Having fun
Via the Hacker Webzine blog (yes, I’m challenging all the security gods by linking to the blog which social engineered people in giving their passwords just for fun – so take care): The Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People: The MIT Gallery of Hacks Also on that page I found the engineers drinking song: Lyrics can…
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My Perl blog – how to turn off warnings
There seems to be a meme going around which encourages blogging about Perl. So here is my contribution: When you write scripts, it is really, really recommended to use the strict and warning pragmas (eventually diagnostics): use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; #mainly for debugging, to better understand the messages I can’t tell you how…
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The cheapest laptop evar 🙂
On a lighter note: You can’t get laptops cheaper than this. If it was any cheaper, they would have to pay you to take it 🙂 I saw this while browsing the online catalog of an IT shop (lei being the national currency of Romania). A true Daily WTF moment.
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Race to Zero
Disclaimer: I work for a security company. This post (and all others, unless marked explicitly otherwise) represent my own opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of my current or past employers. As expected, the announced Race to Zero competition has raised quite some stir, similar to the test performed by ConsumerReports. Here are…
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Think Vitamin compromised?
I’m pretty sure I was not hallucinating… Earlier, when I was reading the Developing with Google App Engine, Part I in my RSS reader, I noticed some spammy links at the end of the article (the kind offering free stuff). I visited the original page, and surely, there it was. It all seems to be…
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Random thoughts and commentary
Via the Erratasec blog: Race to Zero. From the webpage: The Race to Zero contest is being held during Defcon 16 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, 8-10 August 2008. The event involves contestants being given a sample set of viruses and malcode to modify and upload through the contest portal. The portal passes…
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HTTP Redirection with PHP – a complete solution
The problem: you need a generic code which redirects to the current URL or some URL relative to the current one. One of the reasons you might want to do that is to avoid the possibility of users submitting a POST form multiple times (even though both IE and FF – and I suppose also…
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Finding the installed files for modules in Perl
First of all if you want to quickly find out if a Perl module is installed on a system or not, you can do the following: perl -e”use Foo;” If the module is installed, this won’t print out anything, however it it isn’t it should say something like (yes, shame on me, I haven’t upgraded…
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Configuring PPPoE under Windows XP for transparent operation
Lately I’ve been on a quest to provide a simple and highly secure configuration for Windows XP. As the last post focused on security, here is a small usability tip: If you are using a PPPoE link (with an ADSL line connected directly to the computer for example), here are three things you can do…