A quick note for anybody using libnids on a 64-bit machine (AMD64), you will need to compile with -fno-strict-aliasing if you use optimisation at -O2 or above. Without it libnids will silently fail to provide you any data.
Today I wanted to quickly calculate a truth table for a simple boolean equation. Whilst this can be done very simply on paper it becomes tedious with lots of inputs.
A quick Google search found “Logic Friday”, available at sontrak.com. Boolean operations can be described using logic gates, truth tables or an equation.
Today I removed clamav from my VPS, which was built into the mail service I run. There are a small number of users and a few thousand messages a week - I liked that I was probably offering some small protection to those people. However all have endpoint anti-virus and most are wise enough to know about malicious email attachments.
The Apache vhost configuration snippet below will force any non-SSL requests for a website to be rewritten to an HTTPS site instead. This is useful to ensure that clients cannot accidentally browse an insecure site, but they don’t have to remember or bookmark a particular URL.
I use it for lionserver.co.uk, click the link to see it in action.
ServerName secure.example.co.uk ServerAlias www.example.co.uk ServerAlias example.co.uk RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on RewriteRule ^/(.
Even more bugs that should have died in 2005..!
This time it is Gentoo bug 77873.
Perhaps there are a glut of bored open source developers who have time to devote to bugs that really aren’t very important 😄.
Another new year, another bug from the past. The last one was from 2007 but this beats it by over a year.
I haven’t used KDE or Konqueror for a few years now, but I hope the resolution of KDE bug 120138 brings happiness to someone.
I was surprised today to receive an email about a bug. In itself this isn’t uncommon, but I didn’t remember the bug very well.
The bug in question is Wireshark bug #1850. I was using tshark for a work project and lacked the skills to fix it myself.
Why was it a surprise? I reported it on 2007-09-17 14:01 PDT. Even allowing for Pacific Daylight Time that’s a rather long time ago.
One thing I like about some blogs is that you can easily see when the admin has replied to comments. It is easy to tweak the Responsive theme to change the colour of these comments by including a few lines of CSS.
Click on “Appearance -> Theme Options” in the WordPress admin section, then expand the “Custom CSS Styles” section. You should put the CSS here instead of editing the theme because it will persist when you upgrade the theme.