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My Account. Libsndfile. Heartbleed roundup. Heartbleed roundup In an apparently non-ironic post, Schneier, who said of Heartbleed, “On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11,” calls this story a “crazy overreaction”: A 19-year-old man was caught on camera urinating in a reservoir that holds Portland's drinking water Wednesday, according to city officials.

Heartbleed roundup

Now the city must drain 38 million gallons of water from Reservoir 5 at Mount Tabor Park in southeast Portland. Meanwhile, CloudFlare reports that Globalsign, who is CloudFlare's primary CA partner, saw their CRL grow to approximately 4.7MB in size from approximately 22KB on Monday. (Compare $400,000 to the cost of 38 million gallons of water, which, at least in Portland, falls from the sky.) Andy Ellis of Akamai uses a nice analogy to explain why they think they needed to reissue all their customer certificates: Imagine that Heartbleed is a vulnerability in the locks in everyone's homes. Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address. If the Ubuntu Server installer has set your server to use DHCP, you will want to change it to a static IP address so that people can actually use it.

Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address

Changing this setting without a GUI will require some text editing, but that’s classic linux, right? Let’s open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. I’m going to use vi, but you can choose a different editor. Linux - Difference between CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC? The size of the World Wide Web (The Internet) Send Large Files — Fast, Easy, Secure and Affordable. A Virtual Appliance is pre-configured software that you can install in your VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen environment (or any other virtual environment), or if you prefer on a dedicated server.

Send Large Files — Fast, Easy, Secure and Affordable

In most cases you will be up and running and sending your first large file within minutes of downloading. Here are some of the features that describes why our customers love LiquidFiles When we say Large Files, we mean it LiquidFiles has no file size limit. That's right, no limit. LiquidFiles uses modern HTML 5 methods for sending files, splitting large files in 100 Mb blocks when uploading. 1, 2, 10 or 10,000 of these 100 Mb blocks makes no difference. So no more 1 or 2 Gb size limits that typically exists on so many cloud services and competing products. Filedrop pages Receiving Large Files Receiving large files is often as much of a hassle as sending large files. Outlook Plugin Super Easy to use Using the Outlook plugin, it's never been easier to send files. Making Sense of Hashed Hosts in ~/.ssh/known_hosts. I don't expect you to follow this post completely, but it's so amazingly cool, I have to blog it.

Making Sense of Hashed Hosts in ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Consider the hashed sections of ~/.ssh/known_hosts file for (recent) OpenSSH clients, not including the public key parts: The column fields are similar to that of the /etc/shadow file on GNU systems, except where the "$" is the column delimiter, "|" is in this case. If the string was "|1|o6FFoirXYblM7wBMdeJDYGMPI58=|5jJB7T7itY702ZHHByXtSpGk9SE=", then the breakdown is as follows: |1- HASH_MAGIC. Digital Object Identifier System. Turning Google+ Search results into a RSS feed (for Google Reader) In Using Google Reader to create a searchable archive of Twitter mentions Alan Cann commented: Subscribing to RSS feeds in Google Reader is my bog standard way of archiving Twitter feeds.

Turning Google+ Search results into a RSS feed (for Google Reader)

Now to figure out how to get an RSS feed from a Google+ hashtag… Lets look at how it might be possible. So there’s no visible RSS feed from the Google+ Search page. Looking at the API documentation there is documentation on Activities: search. Hosting your own Google Reader themed RSS aggregator with TT-RSS and G2TT. After my last post on ‘Thieving Feedly’, which got a lovely follow up on The Digital River, I mentioned that I’d uninstalled the Feedly Android app.

Hosting your own Google Reader themed RSS aggregator with TT-RSS and G2TT

Authenticator - Two-step verification. Mini Servers: Apache 2.2.9 Perl 5.10 Portable - The Uniform Server Wiki. Mini Server 9 using Apache 2.2.9 and Activestate Perl 5.10 Core This mini server packs a real punch; trouble is it also packs a real disk hit, using the full version of Perl you are looking at 53M hence I have used only the core and few modules reducing the server to about 3MB.

Mini Servers: Apache 2.2.9 Perl 5.10 Portable - The Uniform Server Wiki

It still provides usful features for dynamic pages adding a Perl core greatly extends the server's power. Note: Check the support files section for download details. Security In order for Perl applications to perform their task they need to interact with the underlying programs if a security hole exists between interactions it can be exploited.

People-powered Data Enrichment Platform. ShortDOI Service. Virtual machine - Syncing or version controlling virtualbox VMs. What is a SSH key fingerprint and how is it generated? Verifying SSH Host Fingerprints. If you use ssh you’re familiar with this message: ~$ ssh rich.elharo.com The authenticity of host 'rich.elharo.com (192.168.254.36)' can't be established.

Verifying SSH Host Fingerprints