Archive for June, 2006

Israel gets hits back by “Hackers”

Israel attacked Gaza Strip (Palestine) this morning (June 28th) and this is what they have caused:
And this is what they got in return:
[ynetnews]: More than 750 Israeli websites hacked in recent hours. Among them: Soldier’s Treasury Bank, Rambam Hospital, and Globus Group ticket center. Hackers: You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers.Hundreds of websites were damaged [...]


Google File System - how Google does it

While many IT shops deal with the issues related to hundreds or thousands of users, Google regularly manages, administers and upgrades software and systems for millions of users. How do they do it? This article presents an excellent overview of the Google file system and its unique capabilities.read more | digg story

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Sure, I’m a webdesigner! I have Dreamweaver!

It is the blind leading the blind. I always hear ‘Well, the client wanted it this way’ or ‘The client really liked the way this was done and that is it, that is the rationalization behind their lack of knowledge for building things improperly. MANY poorly built sites that do absolutely nothing but sit there
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Cracking Wireless Internet (WEP) Cracking

WEP cracking usually takes hours. Lots of hours, depending on the amount of traffic on the access point. A few months ago, two FBI agents demonstrated how they were able to crack a WEP enabled access point within a couple of minutes. 3 minutes to be exact. This is unbelievable when compared to, say 3 [...]


Postgres and ODBC: Boolean problem

Here is the solution, so I wont even forget it…
If you face a problem on your access front-end using ODBC, then here it is:
[code]
#root> ./createlang plpgsql db_name
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Once you have enabled plpgsql on that database, then we can create the functions:
[code]
DROP OPERATOR = (bool, int4);
DROP OPERATOR (bool, int4);
DROP FUNCTION MsAccessBool (bool, int4);
DROP FUNCTION MsAccessBoolEq (bool, [...]