Herbie and Beastie Boys mashup
I stumbled across this today (I’m a huge Herbie fan): [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WzfxjPcgtU]... Read More
Author: Christopher
Clever bash hack
I stubled across this from a colleague at my new gig: #!/bin/bash if uname -r | { IFS=.- read -r a b c _; [ "$((a*10000+b*100+c))" -lt 20622 ]; }; then echo 'Your kernel is too old!'; else echo 'Your kernel is 2.6.22 or newer!' fi... Read More
What nerds do for fun
So, I was logging in to an account with my registrar today, and there was a notice saying that ‘.in’ domains were on sale for $2.48. I couldn’t resist, it is the best $3 I’ve ever wasted.... Read More
Back from my social ‘vacation’
It’s been a while since I posted anything here, I blame winter plus a host of all sorts of things that have been keeping me busy. Since the last blog post, there have been a number of things. Delano and I released One-Time Secret, along with Ruby, PHP and (thanks to Kyle Dawkins) Perl client […]... Read More
Protecting your credentials from criminals
In my previous blog post, I wrote about choosing good passwords. However, most hack attempts don’t involve password hacking/guessing at all. Even dictionary attacks — which are far more common that brute force attacks — are not the most common way that criminals get at your account information and private data. In this blog post, I’ll […]... Read More
Good passwords
One of my pet peeves about security are people who advocate for ‘strong’ passwords. Everyone knows these people, they’re the tech support person who tells you your password must have a minimum number of characters that you only use when censoring expletives. Even worse, some of them use a random password generator to assign a […]... Read More
SimpleRSSEmbed – my first WordPress plugin
Ok, I’ve been doing all sorts of things with WordPress for a while now, but oddly enough, I never actually wrote a plugin (although, in retrospect, I did a lot of template hacks that probably would have been easier to do as plugins). Anyway, I needed a plugin for a blog I was working on […]... Read More
Upgrading software RAID drives (and increase capacity)
Disclaimer: This is one of those semi-selfish posts, where I need to perform a task that I do only once in a while. So, to save myself from having to search these steps every time, I’m documenting it here with the use of digital software as sodapdf that help with this. I hope someone else […]... Read More
Internet Hosting Solutions
Web Hosting services are usually easy to use and get to store a website for your business. Websites that are not available on the Internet can be saved in such a manner to be available in the future. The service is available in an unlimited amount. After a period of 30 days all the files […]... Read More
Hello (again) world!
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve had a professional blog, (back when I was working for Terra Soft and managing YDL.net in fact) and my own website was worse than terrible. It’s ironic, because I was too busy building medium and large web systems for universities, SMBs and ISPs to actually keep my own […]... Read More