http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/torpig.pdf

Interesting paper from UCSB with statistics provided by hijacking torpig bootnet for aprox. 10 days.

" Samsung gave me 24 ultra-fast SSDs to play with. I made this! " (4 min youtube vid.)

http://www.b3ta.com/links/287816 show to Duilio !!!

example banner provided by the DoJ (from NIST publication)

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/csl93-03.txt sample security banner for ssh/telnet logins, etc

The World's Biggest Botnets

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=138610&print=true informative

Six ways to write more comprehensible code

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-clear-code/?ca=dgr-FClnxw01linuxcodetips

More Bugs: depmod segfaults on FC5, agrrrr!

http://konstantin.antselovich.com/archives/2006/08/17/more-bugs-depmod-segfaults-on-fc5-agrrrr/ Fedora bug #202927 depmod segfaults So, me fighting irq kernel bug (see my previous post). I went to kernel.org, got a stock kernel, build it, tried to install : /sbin/depmod -e -F System.map 2.6.17.8 WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.17.8/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_DSCP.ko is not an elf object …. some stuff skipped …. Segmentation fault Nice! Apearantly, depmod segfaults after looking at /lib/modules/$kernel_verion/updates strace output: open("/lib/modules/2.6.17.8/updates", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) -– SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) — +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ ...

More Bugs -- IRQ11 nodoby cared

http://konstantin.antselovich.com/archives/2006/08/14/more-bugs-irq11-nodoby-cared/ Fedora bug #202567 “irq 11 nobody cared” I encuntered an annoying bug after I upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5. The result of this bug is that after X server restart or switching to a console or after suspend-resume USB, Sound and Network does not work any more. It happens because kernel disables IRQ that mentioned hardware uses to get CPU’s attention. Hopes that it will be fixed soon. ...

SEO Beginners Guide

SEO Beginners Guide [SEOmoz.org] or download a pdf copy - 459Kb First, what is SEO? Abbreviation ‘SEO’ stands for Search Engine Optimization, or a few things that you as a webmaster need to know-how to increase your site’s visibility with major search engines. (if you want to ask me what the ‘search engines’ are – you are reading the wrong blog) I strongly recommend to anyone somehow involved in web-mastering or website administration to read this guide from the beginning to the end. One issue with SEO though: you need to make sure that you have a good website. Good content is number 1, Cool design is number 2. After all, search engines try to get the highest rank to the best websites. ...

Last on KDE vs Gnome saga

Watching flame wars on forums, newgroups and mailing list is always entertaining. The ever-lasting KDE-vs-Gnome saga just got an interesting update. On gnome-usability mailing list Linux Torvalds just said, “just tell people to use KDE” … so, other people jumped in and you can watch flames flowing in all directions. And of course slashdot just couldn’t miss this one and created it’s on version of this debate. Enjoy! PS; I use Gnome btw ;-) see screenshot ...

RPM Guide Book

RPM GUIDE [ from fedora.redhat.com/docs] Fedora Project has made available online excellent RPM Guide written by Eric Foster-Johnson. This is a long document, including history of package managers, software design goals and implementation details. This guide is a must-read for anyone planning to create and/or maintain RPM packages.