To anticipate and prevent
Everyone’s heard of comment spamming right? Its where spammers use bots to drop links to their sites in peoples blogs (and wiki’s, etc). Its a meathod to increase their popularity on Google. While Serendipity (the blog software I use) has built in protection for this, there’s the “trackback” feature. Now trackbacks are cool, but they…
Dana Epp’s mentioned it first, and I thought it was worth mentioning it again. PuTTY, the worlds favorite telnet/SSH/etc client, has a security hole. If you use PuTTY you should upgrade to the latest version (released yesterday). And if you SSH/Telnet alot, and don’t use PuTTY. I sugest you try it out, it has a…
As I’m sure many have seen this bit in Bruce Schneier’s Blog about SHA-1 being broken. And we already know DES sucks. What I would love to know is how AES encryption is doing in the grand sceme of things. Right now I use KeePass (a very nifty open source project, I highly sugest checking…
Cruised over to CNET News and found this fun article over dead pixels. The reason why I find this fun, is that I too have recenetly run into this problem. I’ve never had a screen with a bad pixel until now. In fact its on my Averatec. Before the screen died a misserable death and…
I ran across this bit about building a RAID that I thought was very intresting. Its not all that uncommon now adays though. In the recent past I built myself a 400$ machine that was supposed to be the house server (turned out latter the RAM was bad, killed the machine a good bit, etc…
For those of you that haven’t heard the news, Skype is becoming rather popular. Its a ‘P2P’ VoIP/IM/File Trans client. Its P2P in the fact that when party X & Y start a call, the call is not going to a server, its going right from X to Y’s computer (Well, there are sometimes when…