Archive for July, 2006

I am all google now! unforunate!

I’ve never imagined that I will be that much hooked into google like how I am right now. It all started when John gave me a gmail account.
Now I use google for many things, obviously the search engine and customized google page and so on.
But anyway, here is the unfortunate part though:
I feel like I [...]


PHP lead programmer quits on Israel aggression and UN deaths

So here is the email Jani sent:
Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It has been fun (sometimes)
and many times not so much fun. Unfortunately I have had enough and
I don’t want to be associated with this project anymore.

I’m sure most people (the ones who matter) can understand why.
If someone doesn’t, I [...]


Cannot be easily more secure than this! ssh-tunneling and bitvise

I am not sure about DNS queries, I am pretty sure there is away to encrypt that as well, or make it go through the tunnel. But with tunneling via ssh, and fixing your firefox / IE to use the proxy socks 5… You cannot be more secure than that.
Plus, it is a great tool [...]


You impress me much Digg!

I just love their digg lab “Swarm”. http://labs.digg.com/swarm/
Just watch its magic of monitoring their users and the content of their site, and how both the user and the content interacting with each other to show the magic of the new web.
I mean by just thinking of the method they “Digg” used to create swamp, I [...]


I got hacked!

Yep, like what the title says.
Though, I am not supposed to talk about it when one of my servers got hacked. But that is what happened.
But let me tell you the story, since this is interesting…. and different than other servers that gets hacked by the second.
Our Network Analyst called me saying “Hey Morad, you [...]