Safe For Seneca – Grumble Grumble

Oh my god, don’t use plural forms

17 November, 2009

There is a magic thing called gettext. It’s magic because it allows some random Joe on the internet with no experience in programming to translate your application into his language. He does this by editing a .po file, then sends it to you, and you just include that file in your build system. Ok there …

So this is why they top-post

5 November, 2009

In newsgroups and many mailing lists top-posting (putting your reply above the text you’re replying to) is a big no-no. You’ll get flamed even if what you say is very useful, constructive, and nice. I’ve never quite understood the zealotry, but I figured: whatever, it sort of makes sense – someone says something, and then …

Easy but impossible way to get rid of spam

14 October, 2009

I’ve been pondering how one may be able to get rid of spam. Not just what comes into my mailbox, but most spam everywhere. And I found such a simple solution it’s amazing I haven’t heard of it before. But of course it will never happen, so that probably explains it. Spammers rely on that …

Slackware 13 knows how I feel

15 September, 2009

Here’s a stupid post, it’s been a while. I’ve upgraded Slackware from 12.2 to 13.0 and now it is messing with me. Believe it or not the stupid thing knows when I’m annoyed and pisses me off even more. Here’s how it works: Sometimes my pointer starts jumping all around the screen, for no good …

KDE now GPL3 only, wants to scap my contribution?

9 June, 2009

I got an email from someone who appears to be helping KDE out with switching their licences. I guess at some point the guys decided that nothing in KDE shall be licenced GPLv2 only, and that’s the request I got – change the licence to “GPL2 or 3” or “GPL2 or later”. Here are a …

Hacked! Part 3 – Teaser

12 January, 2009

I left off with my server almost completely back up, but not yet Apache. I’ve had to make sure the web apps off the internet weren’t full of security holes before allowing access to them again. Though this is my third post 4 days later – in real time it’s been less than 24 hours …

Hacked! Part 2 – Open source hacking

11 January, 2009

First things first – my server had to be brought back up. But bringing it back up was not a matter as simple as reinstalling Slackware and plopping the home directories back in. So the first thing that needed to be done was to figure out how the server’s been compromised. The quickest way to …

Hacked! Part 1 – The Surprise

10 January, 2009

On thursday evening I had a couple of hours to spare, so I’ve SSHed to my server (yours truly littlesvr.ca) to get the Apache logs from the last couple of months. I do this now and then because I like seing the ammount of traffic going up every month. But this time it was not …

Doing worthwhile things is hard

5 January, 2009

Sometimes I think the world would be a much better place if everyone just accepted that I’m smarter then them and did what I said. This of course is not the case, and I when I take some time to think about it – it’s good, I have no desire to be a puppet master …

ISO Master has been cracked

9 December, 2008

For the last wo days or so I’ve been suffering from bandwidth troubles. I throttled the children’s upload to 10K so it wasn’t that. Finally I’ve decided to watch the web server logs for a minute, and I’ve noticed a pattern: 63.226.153.189 – – [09/Dec/2008:17:48:05 -0500] “GET /isomaster/wp-content/themes/ISO_master/images/ss-started-vista.png HTTP/1.1” 200 26112 “http://scenereleases.info/category/applications” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE …