Today, my blog suffered of a new severe outage! It already happened end of 2006: One more time, my server was moved to a new data center without prior notification! Ok, there is nothing business critical in this server. But little communication from my hoster would be much better: –
Category: Grrrr!
Shit Happens!
We are all vulnerable! Yesterday, it was my turn… Infected by a trojan. Up to 04:00 AM to fix the problem! The culprit was Vundo. A well-known (and quite old) Trojan which slows down the system, display pop-ups etc… Nothing very malicious but it was difficult to get rid of
Microsoft Helps Big Brother
In a previous post, I talked about US authorities who have rights to read your hard drives. Today, Microsoft announced a new toy USB stick called COFEE: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. “The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which
DNS (un)Management
Today, I registered to a web cast event. Unfortunately, I lost my password. So I used the “lost password recovery ” feature provided on the website. But the temporary password didn’t reach my mailbox. Second try, same result!? After some unsuccessful investigations, I checked my SMTP log file and found
while(true) { reboot(); }
For the family usage, we have a laptop running Vista. Yesterday, the system suddenly requested to restart the OS without alternative. After the first reboot, I got the following screen: The laptop started an infinite loop of patch install, reboot, patch install, reboot, … I googled the message and found
M$ Patch Joke
623MB of patches? WTF!
New Belgian Story
I just read an article in DataNews about a project of the “Union Wallonne des Villes et Communes” which would like to bill Belgacom, our national tel co operator, for every meter of sidewalks opened to place new cables! Working for a Flemish company and living on the French part
Where are we going?
I read on /. this morning that researchers from a Japanese university genetically modified a mouse to stop it to fear cats!? My question is: where are we going? My little daughters are addicted to the Tom & Jerry cartoon. How can I explain to them that in a near
Is my bank down today?
Today, I went to the local cash-dispenser to retrieve some money… “Card rejected“. I check with my wife’s card… “Card rejected” WTF!? Suddenly I was able to read a brief message on the terminal… “Due to a maintenance, it won’t be possible to retrieve money this Saturday from … to
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…