GeekSpeak
A Security Checklist for Newbies.
One of my clients had their web site compromised this morning. Apparently some hacker in Russia figured out their web server’s SSH password, logged in, and replaced their root index page. (No, my firm had never performed a security audit for them – the site structure was set up by a predecessor.)
Bummer. Here’s a [...]
Type “sleep with me” at your next command prompt
On some UNIX systems, the command “sleep with me” returns the error “bad character”.
Largest Computing Applications
While writing a SQL-based search function (the simple kind with basic string matching against ordered data) today, a question regarding the size of the google cache ensued in my lab.
After about 20 seconds of discussion, someone said, “so they have a whole lot of servers then, huh?”
I retorted that it’s probably the single biggest application [...]
