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Linux tips – take two
A short Linux/Ubuntu tip: If you want to control what services (daemons in Linux speak) run when you start your computer, use sudo sysv-rc-conf from the command line. If you don’t have it installed, do a quick sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf. It’s a very small download (around 25 Kb) and it’s much more convenient than…
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Linux also has a hosts file!
Update: I’m recommending that you use 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1. Please check the link to see the reasons and how to modify your hosts file. Also, if you do the changes, the ping command at the end of this article won’t work (it will say something to the effect of “Destination specified is invalid.”, but…
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If you want statistics, you better include the tracking code
Around mid-December I did a redesign of my blog (actually I chose a different template and tweaked it a little bit :D) and forgot to include the Google Analytics tracking code in the new template. The result was that according to statistics I had 0 visitors in late December – early January. First I thought…
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So what I’ve been up to
Recently in my spare time I was hacking away on a tutorial on SVG for school. You can find it on my Google Pages account or download the whole thing as a zip file. Hopefully it helps someone.
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GMER Site DDoS-ed
It seems that the site hosting one of the popular rootkit detection programs is under DDoS. (news from AntiRootkit blog). So I’ve uploaded the file to my Google Pages account (good luck DDoS-ing Google, however they may take it down because bandwidth is money). While it is available, get it at: http://hype.free.googlepages.com/gmer.zip File size: 490698…
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Mixed links and commentary
The Perl Golf contest has ended and I have to admit I don’t even understand the winning entry so I couldn’t have written it. To my defense: I’ve been only programming in Perl ~6 months, so I can’t expect to be a guru. On the flip side: I can’t even get the winning program to…
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On disclosure
Disclosure and responsible disclosure is a very much discussed topics these days as the MOAB (no, not that one – yes it is a cheap shot, but maybe there are people who didn’t read it on ten other blogs :)). Here is one blog entry which says: I completely disagree with the decision for security…
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Reinventing the wheel
Those damn kids today don’t know their history and think that .NET is 1337! 😀 Some random dude in Taiwan couldn’t browse the web (because an undersea cable broke due to a recent earthquake) and he decided that using a webserver (probably configured by him) which ran arbitrary executables mailed to it (hint: the from…
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Good bye PWDMag, hello .NET
If you are a fan of Paul Boag, you might now that the Practical Webdesign Magazine website closed down (as did the magazine itself) and they moved to become the .NET magazine. Before closing down I took a complete mirror of the site (thanks HTTrack), and asked them if I can put up a mirror.…
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Mixed links and commentary
The thing on everybody’s mind is the recent GMail hack. You can read a very good writeup about it on Joe Walker’s Blog. You can avoid it (if you are an application developer) by Not using the JSON format Not using cookies to store session ID, but rather including the session ID in the URL.…