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Month: August 2007
WP-Scanner
This blog runs under WordPress as many other blogs on the Internet. WordPress is also known to not be very secure: lot of vulnerabilities have already been discovered and more will come! On blogsecurity.net, a security tool is proposed to check your own blog: WP-Scanner. It’s like a Nessus scanner
New NAS @ home
Ok, my summer holidays started a few hours ago and I’m still online ;-). The first project will be to reinstall my home server and enforce its primary functionality: provide storage for the whole family. My server runs OpenBSD. First step is done: I found a extra 250GB disk on
Let’s share!
I tested several RSS feed readers for a while. Finally, I’m using Google Reader. It works very well and give me access to my feeds wherever I’m! Just open a browser and log in! I’m sharing interesting articles via my public page. You can find a link to this page
Useless eID?
I just read on a Belgian news website that >6 billions millions of eID cards have already been distributed to Belgian citizens (that >70% of the population) but 50% don’t see any advantage in this “piece of plastic”. I got mine in May and, to be honest, I still never
Data Center Nightmare
Don’t try this in your data center! In this example, it was not possible to close the floor anymore. If you’re responsible of a data center (whatever the size! One rack is enough), follow simple rules: Arrange cables in separate cable-ways (power, data, voice); Use colored cables (red for backbone,
nagiosexchange.org Turns Three
Happy birthday to NagiosExchange! Involved in monitoring and/or reporting projects with Nagios or Groundwork, this website was always a must! Why re-invent the wheel when somebody already contributed to the plugins base?
I hate marketing!
Is it normal to have to subscribe to a f*cking distribution list to increase my chances to win a price of a *free* contest? That’s true, I’m sure to increase my chances to get spam…
WiFi in unusual environment
WiFi technology is more and more used in industrial environment and sometimes for entertainment purposes. In Belgium, Walibi opened a new attraction called “Le Vertigo“. Last week, the attraction malfunctioned and 20 people were blocked during one hour up to 50 m above the ground! In this case, it was
GPS hacking
When I read articles about the potential security issue with GPS, my fist reaction was “How can they hack a GPS without interfering with the satellite signals?“. In fact, it’s much more simple! More and more GPS models on the market come with a builtin TMC receiver (Traffic Message Channel)