Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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chkrootkit false positives filtering
Chkrootkit is a tool that searches for rootkits, trojans and other signs of break-ins on your system. Like most security scanners, it sometimes generates false positives. Chkrootkit doesn’t have a native way to filter those out. From the FAQ: [Q:] chkrootkit is reporting some files and dirs as suspicious: `.packlist’, `.cvsignore’, etc. These are clearly […]
WordPress
I just finished writing an article for my blog. It took me most of the evening. Researching, writing, proof-reading, rewriting, linking to articles, etc. I click save, and only one-third of the article shows up in WordPress. The rest? Gone. Hours of my hard work? Gone. Careful proof-reading, rewriting, analysis, unbiasing, rereading? Gone. THANK YOU […]
Why Ethernet didn’t work, the real story
I was just browsing around on Slashdot a bit, and I found an article on the topic of Token Ring Networks. We all know that back in the day, Token Ring was considered ‘better’ than Ethernet because Ethernet would start colliding like mad under heavy (60/70% and higher) loads. This was because there was no […]
Customers…
Customers (as well as business partners, prospects, etc) are not: Aliens Humour impaired Poisonous Unreasonable Inhuman Somehow invulnerable to the same problems we all face in day to day business. Even if they’re wearing suits!
It’s not a Problem; it’s a Challenge!
I finally have a reply to the oft-heard managerial “It’s not a Problem; It’s a Challenge!”: “ITIL doesn’t define ‘Challenge’. ITIL only defines incidents and problems”. That outta shut them up. :-D
SSH + SOCKS5 = Universal proxy
I didn’t know it, but (Open)SSH supports setting up a Socks5 proxy: -D [bind_address:]port Specifies a local “dynamic” application-level port forwarding. This works by allocating a socket to listen to port on the local side, optionally bound to the specified bind_address. Whenever a connection is made to this port, the connection is forwarded over the […]
Android
Android is here. There’s been a lot of rumours about a Google mobile phone. Now, it appears that there is no gPhone (thank god), but there is a Google Mobile Phone Software Development Kit! The SDK appears to have everything you need to build third-party applications for your mobile phone. The SDK is created in […]
New site
Well, the big day is finally here. I revamped my homepage.
The real problem with Wikipedia
According to many, Wikipedia’s biggest problem is that it can’t be trusted because anybody can edit it. Personally, I feel that the problem is that experts are allowed to edit it. Hypercholesterolemia Conditions with elevated concentrations of oxidized LDL particles, especially “small dense LDL” (sdLDL) particles, are associated with atheroma formation in the walls of […]
Python web app server in 48 lines
I needed to write a little application which would be accessible from a remote client, and which wouldn’t need any custom software running on the client. I needed a web application. But I didn’t feel like setting up a whole Apache web server with mod_python and whatever. Of course, there’s CherryPy, but it feels a […]
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