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Living off of the hype
Disclaimer: I work for a competitor, however this is my personal opinion and does not necessarily represent the views of any of my past or future employers. So tell me, what does F-Secure exactly contribute to the malware fighting effort? Sure, they have a blog and a chief researcher who has an opinion about everything…
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Computer immune system
Disclaimer: this post (as all the others) are my personal opinion and do not necessarily represent the opinions of any of my past or current employer. From time to time I get questions from people like: how to best secure my computer? or which security products to use?. Other times they me is product X…
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Google survey beta
So Blogger wanted to know my opinion. I happily clicked along to express my desire to be able to include syntax highlighted code easily. Five point question: what is wrong with the webpage below? Hint: how do I submit this thing? While the looks of the questionnaire were spartan (not like some people who feel…
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Checking out CVS and creating patches
Update: Qemu moved from CVS to SVN. While the CVS repository is (and will be) available for some time, you should look at the new checkout instructions. Lately I started to dive into open-source development, specifically Qemu. Since I’m relatively new, here are some commands I found useful: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/sources/qemu co qemu – to…
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Two quick tips
Via the .:Computer Defense:. blog: the Windows command prompt has a history feature: just press F7 in a command window. One of the great features of Firefox 2 is the session saving (I know, there were extensions before that to do the same thing, but they somehow never worked for me). If you want to…
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Why not to chain remote desktops?
Quick tip (learned the painful way): do not chain remote desktops, meaning don’t open a remote desktop (or VNC sessions for that matter) to one computer and open in that session a remote desktop to an other computer, unless you have bandwidth to waste and don’t mind the increased delay :-). The explanation is rather…
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Installing and using Truecrypt on Ubuntu
Update: while truecrypt still doesn’t offer native packages (ie. .deb / .rpm) for Linux distributions, their shellscript installer works just fine. So the simplified version of the installation procedure is: Download the correct package from Truecrypt (either 32 or 64 bit – you can find out which you need by typing uname -a – if…