This week, the harddisk is 50 years old! The RAMAC 305 was the first disks developed by IBM: 5MB for $7000!
Bigbrother is listening to you!
I read this article on The Register today: Google developing eavesdropping software. Google plans to “listen” to your direct environment and push advertisements according to your current activities. Watching tv? Why not rent a DVD? etc… Soon, Google will be banned from my environment! :-[
Provider-1 training live from London
Live from the training room… 😉 My 2-days training on Provider-1 will start soon… Stay tuned!
MySQL 5 on OpenBSD 3.9
This is a hot topic on openbsd-msic for a few days. It seems that lot of admins complaint about the MySQL stability. To be honest, I’m also facing issues since I reinstalled my box… 🙁 There is a dedicated page about this problem on openbsdsupport.com. Let’s test it!
When it’s time to go!
C:\\Documents and Settings\\xmertens>man route ‘man’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\\Documents and Settings\\xmertens>
Back to shool for children, new job for me!
September is “hot”! My daughters are back to school and I started my new job. Since yesterday, I’m working for C-Cure as Security Consultant. More later…
URL checker
I found a nice tool: the URL Checker (no not confuse with my URL watcher 😉 ). It scan the provided URL and display its structure “as a search robot”.
Big cleanup!
Today, I spend some time to clean up “my” room @ home (read: where all my IT stuff is 😉 ). I found several old CDs. Some collectors: Netscape DevEdge (1996) Netscape SuiteSport (for Unix) (1996) CDE Linux Client Edition (1997) Linux RedHat 5.0 for Intel Computers (1997) ApplixWare 4.37
block out log quick on $EXT inet proto icmp
A new physing method appeared a few days ago: now stolen data are sent back to the attackers via ICMP packets! Source: WebSense: Malicious Code / Phishing Alert: Data Stolen via ICMP.
MicrosoftSuxx++ (one more time)
One more time, I lost time thanks to a Microsoft issue… With a colleague @ a remote office, we tried to setup a remote Sunray DTU as I did at home. Of course, we faced the fragmentation issue and started to find the best MTU value (thanks to tcpdump 😉