To anticipate and prevent
Today I was turned onto a nift toy called Wpoison. Its a fairly simple perl script that generates random webpages with crap email addresses, links back to itself, and sleeps for 4 seconds on every run. I’ve decided that I’m going to deploy it on a few of my sites, since I seem to have…
Yahoo UK is carrying a bit about Vigilante Hackers — AKA White Hats. Guys (and Gals) running around hacking fake banks and other fraudsters. More power to them I say. As the article says: “Experts say that shutting down the scam websites is often difficult because they may be hosted in countries where legal action…
So my debian machine continues to randomly jump to DHCP (from static) from time to time. I have no fruiting idea why, and all I can do is ifdown/ifup the network adapter. In othernews — I’m moving. Fun stuffs, now back to the ol’ game of DSL Versus Cable — which is faster, cheaper, and…
Oh yea! I love the new firmware. Always goodies to play with. Especially the big jumps — when the actually change significant features are fun. Well the D70 has new firmware (found here ). I just finished flashing my D70 — If nothing else, I really really like the new Menu’s. Very….modern… — Where each…
So.. I got Mission Impossible today from NetFlix and started watching it. At start up it asked if I wanted Widescreen or Letterbox. Having a laptop with 16:10 — Widescreen it was. But.. It wasnt. It turns out it was 16:9 shrunk down to fit the letter box width. Yes! I want to watch a…
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth —Sherlock Holmes This stands particularly true with networking. I had an issue with our home network tonight and a rogue machine. I eliminated every option (including a stranger on our open AP) — with no avail. The rogue machine — the…