ARF Gets IESG Approval
Monday, May 24th, 2010The ARF draft passed IESG approval and is on its way to becoming a formal RFC. Background here and here.
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The ARF draft passed IESG approval and is on its way to becoming a formal RFC. Background here and here.
Abuse Reporting Format Passed IETF WG Last Call
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010The abuse reporting format I originally created in conjunction with ASRG and bunch of ISPs (that eventually morphed into MAAWG) has finally passed the Last Call in the IETF's MARF working group. That means that it is now going to be going to the IESG for review and hopefully on ...
McAfee charging money for fixing a problem they caused
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010A friend of my has McAfee antivirus installed on his computer from the college he is attending (Towson University). Earlier today his computer started rebooting because of a faulty McAfee update that has crippled computers worldwide. So he called McAfee's customer service and guess what? They can fix the problem for ...
Solution to Rootkit Infected Windows Machines
Friday, August 28th, 2009In the recent few month I have come more and more across personal laptops and desktops infected with various rootkits. The standard solution is to wipe the OS and reinstall. Recently an alternative may be a rescue CD with the antivirus software on it which is used to boot the ...
How to Create CD-ROM Partitions on USB Flash Drives
Monday, August 17th, 2009Many recent flash drives such as Sandisk Cruzer come built in with a read-only CDROM-like partition which appears as a CD-ROM on the computer, and a second writable partition. It seems that this is something not done via software but must have support in hardware since presenting a device as ...
Getting Flash to Work in Opera 9.64 and Ubuntu
Monday, August 17th, 2009The easiest way is to install the standard Debian 5.0 package instead of the Ubuntu-specific package. Full instructions can be found in Ubuntu Forums. For the technical among you - there seems to be an issue with the statically linked package for Ubuntu. The dynamic package for Debian seems to work ...
Charlie the Groundhog
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Charlie the Groundhog Originally uploaded by netwizard A groundhog has been attacking our garden for the past few weeks. After a call to the exterminator he has been finally caught. You can see it in the picture waiting to be transported out of the city.
Google Base and Unicode
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009For quite some time, Google Base feeds for some of of my projects were either partially ingested or rejected out of hand with a message "Required attribute missing". I ran xmllint and several online validation tools, and found nothing. But thanks to a Mac blog, I finally figured it out. It ...
WordPress Auto-Update Feature and 1&1 Internet
Friday, June 26th, 2009Wordpress v2.7 comes with a feature that allows plugins and the program itself to be updated within the web interface. However, I was never able to get it to work until I happen to see the following instructions at the Wordpress Codex: 1and1 (fails running PHP 4, but works with PHP ...
Low Resolution When Printing to PDF on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Recently, after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) from 8.10 (Intrepid) I noticed that PDF files produced via the "Print" command in various programs (similar to Adobe Distiller) produces very low resolution files and renders all text into images. It turns out to be a bug in CUPS-PDF, which is the ...
