Tiny PC sips power, runs Linux - nice little box.
sysadmin - 9.2.2007 - 20.7.2007
Trojaner-Basteln für Dummys - ouch. Big ouch.
integer overflows - and how the PHP maintainers imagine preventing this ... is anyone still wondering about the many problems in the PHP interpreter? Maybe it's time for some of the maintainers there to learn how to program?
Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' As Open Source Debate Turns Nasty - yet another case where I think Linus should just sit down and write code - and otherwise keep his mouth shut. Open source is always opinionated software and this silly bashing of Stallman (who admittedly is completely crazy - but which visionary wasn't?) is ridiculous. Without RMS, open source would not be what it is. Writing a kernel based on 1970s technology is one thing - but building a community based on (not only technical but also moral!) ideas is a completely different matter. The FSF people at least have an idea of a better society, whereas their opponents couldn't care less about society. On which side do the "hypocrites" sit, I wonder?
low-level network packets with python - we hack IP packets. And scan the network. And filter packets. With Python.
Genera Concepts - who is interested, why Genera is so brilliant and why many people think that it is conceptually far ahead of even today's systems.
Perlbal - a balancing proxy server focused on performance. In Perl. Tons of features that make it easy to compose a single frontend from many backend systems.
WinMTR - mtr with GUI for Windows.
Deutsche Telekom blocks TCP port 8085 - they're crazy, those Deutsche Telekom people. Because they sold their customers junk that can't be made secure, now a port is being blocked.
'Intel Core 2' - buggy as hell, according to Theo. And well, if that guy knows one thing, it's exploitable bugs.
Paul Dowman » Ruby on Rails EC2 “Appliance” - maybe not a bad idea to play around with EC2.
Spamhaus.org relativizes nic.at listing - I think I've said before that I don't think much of spam list operators, because they all go crazy sooner or later. Of course, Spamhaus is more important than laws ...
ZFS is in MacOS X 10.5 - Golem.de - "ZFS is only equipped with read support and can only be used via the command line - integrated ZFS partitions cannot be written with Apple's operating system." - damn. That's useless.
Sun: ZFS becomes the new file system in Apple's Leopard - hopefully not just in the server version. HFS+ is somehow more of a hack than a file system.
Linux.com | Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG - could be interesting. However, I still don't like Firefox on the Mac - it's just not a Mac application in behavior.
Man described as a top spammer arrested - and now please get the others too.
duplicity - encrypted differential tar archives. Sounds interesting for backups.
RFC against Spam - will it help? Maybe, because an RFC tends to be implemented in mail servers. On the other hand, will the mail servers also be updated to the new versions with the feature?
Google turns the page… in a bad way. - how Google nests on Dell computers. No, not just the toolbar, but an additional tool for redirecting to ad pages.
A MacFUSE-Based Process File System for Mac OS X - quite nice. Very nice. procfs and its many variants are extremely practical for shell scripts that want to check something quickly. Good to have something like this as an option for OS X as well.
Chanalyzer Software and Wi-Spy Stick - Analyzer for the 2.4 GHz band. Free software available (from the Kismet people) and a beta for the Mac.
Rampant Layering Violation - why ZFS does not care about the classic filesystem layers, but takes over many functions itself.
Thursday: Biggest. Anti-Spam. Lawsuit. Ever. - $1 billion in damages claimed. Lawsuit against several spammers who have recently collected email addresses, which is a violation of laws in the USA. Could be interesting.
Manually Adding DNS-SD Service Discovery Records to an Existing Name Server - an interesting way to manually get server entries in Bonjour. Could be used, for example, for network-wide centrally maintained bookmarks on sites, or for the various Linux-bound services.
Apple - Downloads - Mac OS X - Automator Actions - see what's listed there.
USB-To-Ethernet Adaptors for Mac OS X - could be useful to turn a Mac Mini into a firewall, for example.
Speakeasy - Speed Test - well done, easy to test and provides useful data.
Vinton Cerf thinks about an Internet restart - well, whether replacing an ad-hoc network with research software provides the right solution? The success of the Internet was not exactly due to its long planning and extensive research, but rather to the "let's try and see what happens" ideology.
Debian 4.0 finally arrives! - mist. I don't want to update servers.
Breaking WEP in Under a Minute - and thus WEP for WLANs is considered dead and unusable.
Serval - VLAN software switch in Erlang. Fun idea - implement VLANs over IP tunnel (basically VPNs). Virtual patch cables, virtual MAC addresses, virtual switch ...
Tsung - Load-Tester in Erlang. Can test various protocols (including SOAP web services and HTTP servers).
What is Eddie? - Load balancer on both DNS and HTTP level, written in Erlang. Website is a bit marketing-heavy, but a very interesting project.
Lingon by Peter Borg - edit launchd configs with a GUI. Clicky-Bunty-Goodness for sysadmins.
Report: OpenBSD developers wanted to downplay critical vulnerability - embarrassing, because Theo keeps hacking on other systems, which do exactly the same thing. Hypocritical, because this is probably just to maintain OpenBSD's clean record regarding security holes - at the expense of openness. Ridiculous, because OpenBSD still has the best security history and it would be more appropriate to admit a mistake and communicate openly.
Alioth: Debian Root Software Raid Documentation: Detail: 303419 XFS issue / solution - important tip for lilo, RAID1 and XFS.
Debian Administration :: Migrating To RAID1 Mirror on Sarge - enabling a RAID system after the main system has already been set up.
RAID-1, Part 2 | Linux Journal - additional information about setting up RAID1 afterwards - also covers LILO.
Darwin Streaming Server under Ubuntu/Debian - Apple's page on it with a link to the documentation.
Streaming with Linux - simple introductory article, also a few interesting tips in it.
rzip - new compression variant with higher compression rate for very large files.
personal computers will never have gigabytes of RAM - ouch. Someone really miscalculated there ... (especially funny is the question of whether one would want to wait 6 minutes for their word processor to start)
GrandPerspective - graphical display of disk usage. Useful to find out what is cluttering up the huge disk again.
Schneier on DRM in Windows Vista - many reasons to keep your hands off Vista.
Caught in the Network - it begins. A professor receives a visit from security for using TOR. We also have isolated instances of targeting TOR and other systems. Not entirely unimportant given the current paranoia and control freakery of the authorities.