WTF! A critical daemon (vmpsd) crashing due to this piece of code: function(char *s) { // bla bla bla fprintf(stderr, “%s\\n”, s); // bla bla bla } main() { // bla bla blah function(NULL); // bla bla bla }
Life in green!
Everybody start thinking green. While some initiatives are started [1] to reduce the power consumption, the business cannot be stopped! Major IT companies started a new project called The Green Grid. Their goal? Trying to find solution to reduce consumption on datacenters! Keep up the good work! [1] See my
Dr Watson promises?
Playing with Vista (eh, be up-to-date is mandatory in our business!), I got my first application error: I like the sentence “Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.“.
Second life for your computer?
I’m not against events (nor in favor) such as “the women’s day”, “the internet’s day” or “the pink cars day” (put whatever you like in front of “day” 😉 ). This time, it’s the shutdown day! The idea is simple: how many people can spend a day without computer. Why
A taste of Vista?
The new Microsoft OS “Vista” is out for a while now. No problem for end-users, they can “safely” (notice the quotes ;-)) upgrade their machine with this new toy. But, professional users (who must run specific applications[1]), it is safe to delay the “big jump”. When you start Vista for
SpamAssassin upgrade
A vulnerability in SpamAssassin has been reported by Secunia (Ref 24197). SpamAssassin has been upgraded on rootshell.be!
Clippy, RIP: 1997 – 2007
Microsoft announced that Clippy won’t be part of Office 2007! After ten years of “ding ding ding” sounds made by knocking on the screen, Clippy is gone! RIP Clippy!
securitybullshit!
Every day, thousands of new blogs come to light and the same amount dies! From time to time, there are very nice initiatives like this one: securitybullshit!, like the well known Dilbert or User Friendly, offers small cartoons about security. All aspects of security is covered: virus, computers, risk assessment,
New XSS attack on the way!
A new XSS attack is on the way!
Small /. effect
Yesterday, a user put a video on its homepage on www.rootshell.be and linked in on videogalleries.com. Result: a nice small Slashdot effect! I was forced to kill all Apache instances…