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You And I
I lose control because of you babe. I lose control when you look at me like this. Theres something in your eyes that is saying tonight. I’m not a child anymore, life has opened the door To a new exciting life. Scorpions – You and I (PS. Hope this falls under fair use and they…
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Which password?
A little note about mounting Truecrypt volumes: When you issue a command like this: sudo truecrypt [truecrypt volume] [where to mount it] You will be greated with the following prompts: Password: [your password to elevate privileges] Enter password for ‘[truecrypt-volume]’: [the password to the truecrypt volume] Now in hindsight it’s clear which password goes where,…
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I can be wrong too 🙂
As Forest Gump said: Shit happens, and the best you can do is to admit that you were in error and to post in the forum where you previously posted the erroneous message to make sure that people who would possibly be mislead have a better chance at finding it. The situation: I’ve commented on…
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Using co.mments.com with NoScript
A couple of months ago I was complaining about the fact that blog comments are usually one-off fire and forget, you can’t really have a discussion (compared to forums) because usually you don’t have a way to notify users about new comments. That’s when fellow blogger kurt wismer from the anti-virus rants blog came to…
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Creating optimal queries for databases
Although I’m a big PostgreSQL supporter, I started out as a MySQL user and still use MySQL daily, so I listen to the OurSQL podcast. In the latest episode (number 22) the topic was Things To Avoid With MySQL Queries. While I picked up a few tips from it (and most of the things mentioned…
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Hack the Gibson #94, #95 and #96
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. I’ve talked a lot about authentication in two recent blog postings (Getting ahead of the curve and Two channel authentication with the followup Two channel authentication – part tow), so I won’t really cover episode #94 in detail. Now for episode #95, OpenID One of…
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Hack the Gibson #93
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. An other Security Now! episode, an other SpinRite story without mentioning backups. There are few explanations for this, none of which shed a very good light on Mr. Gibson: (a) he doesn’t care, (b) the flaws SpinRite repairs are not at all serious, so with…
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Pictures
Sometimes I get the urge to shoot some photos (although I’m not very good at it, as you can tell from the images below), and borrow the camera from a good friend (who tells me three times how to handle it, because it’s some pretty serious stuff, not the point & shoot kind) and go…
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PostgreSQL REPLACE INTO
When migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL a question which seems to come up often is how to do the equivalent of REPLACE INTO? At the supplied link you will find the answer (with the mention that you should wrap the code in a transaction if it’s not done already for you by your data access…
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Letting competent people do their jobs
Firs of all – the usual disclaimer applies – this is my personal opinion, blah, blah The first positive comment to my VirusTotal uploader came in which is cool, however it brought up two issues: The fist would be: please don’t use this tool to scan your entire collection, performing a small DoS attack on…