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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…
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The case of the missing blog post
After seeing the post on rootkit.com about Atsiv I planned to take a look at it because the official announcement (which is by the way now changed to a reply to Microsofts actions) didn’t give any details. Fortunately people smarter than me did that (proving the old saying that if you can do something today,…
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Setting up a PPTP VPN (client) with Ubuntu
This applies to the latest release (7.04), because from what I understand older versions had more (complicated) steps to follow. My solution is based on this blog posting combined with some advice from here. The steps are: Install the network-manager-pptp package (either by doing sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp, by using Synaptic or any other way…