Published at: 10:08 pm - Thursday August 12 2010
One of our customers is running an old, but stable Ubuntu Dapper Server that recently got hacked.
The whole system acted totally normal, except for the fact that it ran ssh brute force attacks against several randomly chosen remote servers. So what happened?
The attacker used a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, which once had been installed, [...]
Published at: 08:02 pm - Monday February 22 2010
Last week Wellington’s IT and web crowd celebrated the annual Webstock week. You’d think that at the end of the day, Webstock is just another conference – but that would be quite of an understatement and completely miss the point.
Published at: 12:02 am - Friday February 22 2008
A few days ago, I was searching for a reverse proxy that is capable of caching dynamic content for a specified period of time. Apache2 + mod_proxy / disk_cache seemed to be the perfect solution, but in fact it did not work properly in the scenario I set up (LAMP / Typo3). After googling around, [...]
Published at: 12:01 am - Wednesday January 18 2006
Just discovered this one:
Harddisk manufacturer Hitachi put a really neat and groovy flash movie about perpendicular recording on its website. It explains the principles of storing data “vertically”, thus offering a higher areal density.
Flash movie about perpendicular recording
…still dancing…
Published at: 12:01 am - Sunday January 01 2006
I’m writing this on behalf of AgentM. He had ordered a replication model of himself and the little girl “R” has finally been delivered on Dec 29. Excellent work, mate
BTW: He promised to post some more details about her…;)
Published at: 12:01 am - Sunday January 01 2006
Hi everyone,
as Kai mentioned in the last post, Agent R aka RenĂ©e was born on December 29th at 03:20 AM, being 45cm “tall” (about 1.476 feet) and weighing 2200g (about 4.850 lbs).
I’m so happy, I cannot find any words to describe how I’m feeling right now…
Time to order a V2.0 shirt at thinkgeek! [...]
Published at: 12:10 am - Saturday October 16 2004
Yes folks, the third version of earth’s best email client is released. If you want email without the hassle, give it a try! Personally, I’m managing seven Accounts in TB, 70000+ Mails and growing. There are several reasons why I’m totally satisfied with it:
-It never crashed since install
-It’s heavily protected against Viruses and Worms
-Built-in anti-spam [...]