March 24, 2009

Top 10 Most Annoying Tweets

Filed under: geek,internet — @ 23:23

A funny post on Niallh.com

March 15, 2009

Patching files

Filed under: linux — @ 21:48

Just a small reminder on how to create patch files.

diff -u -p orig_file edited_file > file.patch
patch -p0 other_file file.patch

Install beta packages with PEAR

Filed under: Uncategorized — @ 15:00

If you want to install beta packages with dependencies in PEAR then use this command:

pear -d preferred_state=beta install –onlyreqdeps the_package_to_install

March 10, 2009

Sad day for IT Security

Filed under: Security,dns,internet — @ 21:54

It’s a sad day for IT security when even D. J. Bernstein has to admit that there’s a flaw in DJBDNS. Luckily the patch that needs to be applied is straightforward and has no known side-effects (at least, not on the DJBDNS servers that I patched).