I’m gettng a master’s degree. And in the current course I have one of those professors who act like something’s up their ass whenever someone cites a work that’s not ‘academic’. For the assignment this week I actually needed to get my hands on some academic papers, because the topic is so uninteresting noone else …
Continue reading Bloody scholarly papersI 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 …
Continue reading Hacked! Part 3 – TeaserFirst 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 …
Continue reading Hacked! Part 2 – Open source hackingOn 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 …
Continue reading Hacked! Part 1 – The SurpriseSometimes 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 …
Continue reading Doing worthwhile things is hardFor 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 …
Continue reading ISO Master has been crackedWhomever didn’t know that already? But knowing a fact without understanding the causes or implications can be pretty useless. So here is a summary of my wonderings of the last couple of weeks. For me to remember and you to enjoy. All of this year I’ve persistently worked on one thing and have signed up …
Continue reading Nice guys finish lastIt’s getting cold. In a few weeks it will be way too cold to ride my Vulcan 500, so I’m trying to make use of it as much as I can before I have to put it into storage for a half a year. Now it’s 2 AM and I just came back from a …
Continue reading Lost in the sticksI work on the Canvas3D project, a Firefox extension. Actually I work on JavaScript that uses it, not the extension itself. So every now and then I need to download the thing, from addons.mozilla.org And it’s bloody annoying. The addon is classified as ‘experimental’, which I assumed means that it’s not really ready for general …
Continue reading Open source projects can be full of it tooEver since I read the subversion manual I’ve been really impressed with version control, and with subversion especially. Like any other student in CS I’ve had my fair share of “Where is the latest version of my assignment? Crap, it’s on my desktop at home and it’s due in two hours”. And subversion got rid …
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