To anticipate and prevent
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…