The other day I stumbed upon a weired piece of software on howtoforge.com : dns-add (code on sourceforge.net). Actually, the purpose of dns-add was very intriguing : update your DNS in one command ! The output should look like this: …::: ISP-fW DNS add v1.0 :::… http://isp-fw.sourceforge.net/ –== copyleft 2005-2006 ==– | Free memory: 864 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the System category.
Downtimes: a hardware problem
You may have noticed that the site had a lot of downtimes recently. I was having a daily kernel panic and weired file system corruptions, which I first tought were coming from the successive crashes and reboots. However, while it happened again and again and I could not find any good reason for that, I [...]
Updates on OpenSSL CVE-2009-3555 (client renegociation)
So there are some news from the front of OpenSSL CVE-2009-3555 (see this and this for the history). Now the latest version of Apache mod_ssl (2.2) embeds an option to reactivate old way client renegociation : SSLInsecureRenegotiation on Check the official doc for more details. With this option activated, you can now safely upgrade openSSL [...]
Deleteyouraccount.com to easily get rid off social networking
Deleteyouraccount.com is a very convenient website if you consider deleting your account from one of these social networking sites that are everywhere now. Of course, they all do their best to make it difficult, trying to hide it and discourage you. Here Deleteyouraccount comes to help. I will still take a few days of thoughts, [...]
My new toy
No, it is not a computer this time. And yes, it is off topic, but I wanted to thank a Japanese friend for his gift and, at the same time, promote his work : He owns a small company in Hokkaido producing a number of wood toys. He is an artist and designs them, which [...]
So much noise from Google about the attacks in China !?
And Google is making so much noise about that ? If what is said is true, it nothing else but a trojan. A good one, but nothing new otherwise. I would also say that the most targeted company was Microsoft. After all, it was an Internet Explorer 0-days breach that was exploited. Once the computer [...]
Privacy and Facebook
That is exactly why I have never used – and will never use – Facebook or anything like that.
SSL/TLS RFC updated against CVE-2009-3555
A solution has been finally brought up to fix CVE-2009-3555 and the temporary solution that broke client authentication. At least, the IETF agreed on a fix as Marsh Ray informs us, though it will still take some weeks for the whole validation process to complete. Moreover, as it requires both the servers and the clients [...]
