It was a wonderful Xmas – not only from a PC resellers point of view. Old computers were exchanged and brand new preinfected preinstalled PCs were installed. As Windows XP now comes with at least SP2 and the mandatory firewall, those boxes are slightly more secure. A nice side effect is, that the new (unpatched) computers replaced the […]
SPF made easy
42 is one of the wrong answers if you are dealing with spam. SPF, which means Sender Policy Framework seems to be a better solution. SPF is a list of authorized mail sending hosts for your domain. But how does it work? The implementation takes place at your nameserver by adding a TXT entry to an existing domain. […]
Crack of dawn
The wafts of mist are about to clear and the cold of the night fades to morning. No, this is no horror film – it’s a start of a new work day. Xmas now is one of the events that passed by and the expected malware flood didn’t really come. But the attacks got more specific as there […]
HeadlineAnimator, my WordPress PlugIn
Since the FeedBurner Problem still has Problems accessing my feed, I decided to do the feedburner stuff myself. The result is a WordPress Plugin which renders an headline animator like Feedburner does. That’s what it looks like: Configuration takes place at the administrative backend.
SSH Tunneling
If you are able to connect to a ssh server, you can connect to the whole world. How does that work? ssh -N user@remote.ssh -L 6667/target.host/6667 The command in pieces: -N circumvents that a shell gets spawned. user is the user on our remote ssh server. -L is the command for the tunnel. Its three parameters are Local […]
Did I listen to THAT??
In a car it is quite common that temperature changes from -10°C to +50°C, which is known to kill tapes and cds. That’s one of the reason why I copy them first before listening to music in my car. That way I do not loose any CDs – and it is also possible to take the best tracks […]