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Sony CDs and rootkits

If you have not heard already, there is a big cry over the Digital Rights Management software which Sony places in their copyright protected music CDs.

Server Slow

No idea what’s with streamyx, but as usual, it’s acting up again. At least from where I am, I’m getting about 12% of my total upload bandwidth (which is an already sluggish 256kbps). Just a warning. I wish I could upgrade my connection to that 1.5mbps SDSL… but then, this was always meant as a developement server. So please be patient, and thank you for being even patient enough to read this! [end of post]

Firefox

You know, I wouldn’t normally do this, but when start solving computer problems, enough things all come back to one thing – The plague of (Microsoft) Internet Explorer

At LAST!!!!

I finally managed to get Apache back and running properly. After much trying and reinstalling and reconfiguring, I finally found the entry in httpd.conf which was causing it to generate many HTTP 400 Bad Request Errors (so that I couldn’t write any posts)- LimitRequestFieldsize 200 Now (hopefully) it shouldn’t cause anymore irritating problems. *Phew* Many [...]

Apache Log Viewer v0.1a released

I guess it’s just a lousy Perl script, but I wrote it because I have a use for it. It is a simple script which allows you to remotely access your web server raw logs (I don’t know about others, but I wrote it for apache), ranging from a few lines in the log to the whole thing. Plus a few other minor formatting options.

Penguin jumps in through the window

So far experience of the Linux operating system, Auditor Security Collection (based on Knoppix) and Fedora Core 4

Is Microsoft Windows SP2 worth it?

After a year of release (I think), I still have not updated my computer to SP2. I’m just wondering whether it’s worth the trouble. I’m sure it doesn’t cause many problems, but does it solve enough to make me happy?

PhpMyVisites XHTML compatible?

If you’ve ever tried to use PhpMyVisites websites statistics on a page being served either as application/xhtml+xml, application/xml or text/xml and found problems, and if you’re not bothered to find a solution, here’s one.