I guess there are many ways to drive a sysadmin crazy – I even experienced a few by now; But the most effective one of all seems to be bad memory. Let me tell you: Nowadays most systems that I get to look at are Windows boxes which are acting weird in a not really reproducible way.
Author: ToeiRei
Windows Registry broken
Today I got an unpleasant surprise – an emergency call due to a broken computer running Windows 2000. Pretty ancient, I agree. The cause for the disaster was power loss and it refused to boot anymore, asking for a reinstall. So the first thing I was considering was updating to a more recent version of Windows – but […]
BlackCheck Stats
It’s been quite a while since I started to work with some statistics about what my plugin does, observing the kind of spam being blocked and it’s been quite cool to see:
Apache 2.2.20 is out
As the bugfixed version 2.2.20 of the apache webserver hit the portage tree on gentoo, it’s safe to remove the security hacks which leaded to some uncool problems with Git. Finally things are going back to normal.
Apache 2.2 Bug
Todays issue did hit the apache 2.2 webserver while handling range requests. Range requests, according to HTTP 1.1 are not bad at all as they were used for resuming downloads in example. But where an overly wide range is requested from the server things lead to a crash in the server, which isn’t great at all. But sadly […]