Due to me moving to a new apartment, the updates on this site will be a bit slow in the coming days.
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Code highlighter installed
Posted in Messages on Jul 16th, 2008
Just installed Dean’s Code Highlighter v1.2 on the site, so I can post code in a more readable way. It’s currently not coloring the code as it’s supposed to, something I’ll try to sort out as soon as possible. Let me know if you have any problems getting the code boxes to show correctly.
Example
<?php
function example() [...]
Generating passwords with PHP
Posted in Development on Jul 15th, 2008
Last night I got the urge to make a strong password generator for this site. Don’t really know why, just inspiration I guess. However, it was getting quite late and I fell asleep after 3 lines of code. Luckily, the inspiration stayed with me, and today I got the grunt work done on the code.
Tuesday a major patch was released to fix a flaw in DNS that potentially could give hackers total control of the internet. The vulnerability was found 6 months ago by Dan Kaminsky of IOActive.
Finally finished some of the guides and project pages I’ve been writing on! Be sure to check them out.
Also, I would like to mention something Bre Pettis is working on these days; The history of the Chaos Computer Club. Check out part 1 and part 2 on his blog. I wont repeat the general presentation [...]
Single Packet Authorization
Posted in Security on Jul 6th, 2008
A quite common finding in firewall/gateway logs is brute-force SSH attacks. As a result, many choose to implement security systems that blacklists the source of the attack for a certain amount of time. This method however, has two considerable weakneses.
PI license to repair PC’s in Texas
Posted in News on Jul 5th, 2008
I came across this beauty while surfing the internet;
The Texas legislature has decided that computer repair folks need a government-issued PI (Private Investigator) license when performing what the state calls “an investigation.” If a computer repair person is analyzing data on a customer’s computer, this would fall under “an investigation”, and without a PI license [...]
Today I wanted to set up a IDS solution for my Windows partition, just for fun really. I decided to go with OSSEC, which is a host-based IDS, but this still requires you to have a server running.
HP vs the rest
Posted in Thoughts on Jul 1st, 2008
Lately, I’ve been thinking about replacing all of my computer equipment with new stuff. First part of this is of course to hit the web pages and look at whats out there. However, for every single product I looked up, I ended up on HP’s web site when I found the perfect product. Why is [...]
Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation
Posted in Solutions on Jul 1st, 2008
I’ve been using Ubuntu on my Aspire 5720ZG since I bought it, but the other day I decided to put Vista back on the machine to try it out and get some experience with it in case I need it for future work.
Now, I did not expect it to go smoothly, and of course it [...]