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Tue Jul 12 19:14:31 2005 GMT: Domain Grabbers
Thu Jun 30 17:01:09 2005 GMT: Alpha Processor Comeback?
Tue Jun 28 19:43:53 2005 GMT: Testdriving 16x 1.5 GHz Itanium
HP has recently added an Integrity rx8620 to its TestDrive. Its 64 GB of RAM and 16 Itanium processors are quite impressive, although its running the "wrong" Linux distribution (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 instead of Debian or Ubuntu).
BTW, their Debian systems have been upgraded to Debian sarge (3.1).
Sun Jun 26 15:50:28 2005 GMT: Anti-Virus Software Quality
When you choose to run some kind of Windows on your PC you will probably also use some anti-virus software to protect you PC against viruses and trojan horses. And to get the maximum level of protection you will surely want to allow your anti-virus software to automatically update its virus definition database via the Internet.
We all know that the Internet isn't 100 % reliable and if a request fails it should be retried sometime later. Of course, we all expect that the update routines of anti-virus handle these cases reliably.
But today I noticed that the anti-virus software on a Windows PC started to bombard the proxy server with HTTP requests (at a rate of about 50 requests per second). Apparently, it somehow tried to request a non-existent file from the update site and got a HTTP 404 response which triggered an immediate retry.
Hmm, this looks a bit like a DoS attack -- I really had hoped that at least security related software should handle these cases better. After all, you won't have to write a worm for your next DDoS attack, anti-virus software's update functionality will do it for you (if you can poison a DNS cache, for instance).
BTW, I am talking about Bitdefender which tried to fetch http://upgrade.bitdefender.com/update71/avx/Plugins/c.gzip? for some reason.
Sat Jun 18 10:57:42 2005 GMT: WebRSS
I am fed up with those graphics and advertisements overloaded Web sites that are so common these days. Fortunately, most of these Web sites now offer RSS/RDF feeds, so I have decided to put together my own no-frills Web-based RSS/RDF news aggregator (built on JabRSS technology).
Currently, I have installed WebRSS on my Web site for personal use only, but I might eventually make it available for the general public once I have cleaned up the interface.
Sun Jun 12 09:13:28 2005 GMT: PHP 5.1 Beta
PHP 5.1 adds support for PDO (PHP Data Objects) and SQLite 3. Interestingly, PDO isn't the first attempt to build a unified API for database access in PHP. dbx has been available since PHP 4.x but seems to have been largely ignored, and there is also PEAR DB which tries to implement a common API in pure PHP.
Sun May 22 16:15:09 2005 GMT: PHP5 @ domainsteam
A few days ago domainsteam.de has increased the Web space quota and the traffic allowance of all Web space packages, in my case the Web space quota has been increased to 625 MB (although I only used about 50 % of the previously allowed 250 MB, so I guess this will be plenty of space for the near future).
And this weekend they upgraded their PHP packages to 4.3.11 and 5.0.4 (apparently using the Debian packages from dotdeb.org). Unfortunatly, these packages don't include support for gdbm databases any more, so I had to change some of my PHP scripts to work with SQLite which is included in PHP5.
Mon May 16 21:05:11 2005 GMT: Member Templates and C++0x Extensions
Mon May 16 13:09:40 2005 GMT: Winchester, Bournemouth and London
Thu May 05 16:33:23 2005 GMT: Solaris 10
Sun Apr 24 21:42:10 2005 GMT: Bournemouth
Sun Apr 24 16:56:19 2005 GMT: ACCU Conference 2005, Day 3 and 4
