March 2007

My blog is getting killed with spam, greater than 300 per day. Does anybody know how to implement CAPTCHA in typo? Or make Akismet do… Read More »Tracking Blog Spam

Now that the US Post Office has announced the Forever Stamp some folks have begun to wonder if investing in Forever Stamps makes sense. I… Read More »Invest in Forever Stamps?

For any number of bugs/reasons, udev might miss one of your md devices, even if you have arrays specified in /etc/mdadm.conf. More on fixing this… Read More »When an md Device Goes Missing

The news today is that the number of Windows botnets has tripled this month. This isn’t terribly surprising news, but this kind of growth can… Read More »When is ‘Enough’?

Here’s a trick to get gcc to tell you about all of its defines: touch foo.c gcc -c -E -dM foo.c rm foo.c Dying for… Read More »List all GCC Defines

There’s a story in the SANS ISC Diary today about Javascript hiding in media files. It has the potential to be a security nightmare, but… Read More »Javascript in MP3’s?

The Boston Globe has an article about cable companies cutting off access to users who have large data transfer statistics. I’ve also been following the… Read More »Conflict of Interest at Comcast

Curious – I found that on an FC2 box while the timezone files had been updated last March (kicking the general preparedness out of everything… Read More »DST – make sure /etc/localtime is current

I seem to recall Windows Update used to say something along the lines of “No information is sent to Microsoft”, shortly after the Anti-Trust trial… Read More »All Microsoft Updates Phone Home

Sun has a late-breaking DST bug which is not fixed by their previous patches. It only effects parsing of dates from date strings that embed… Read More »Late-breaking Java DST bug