Archive for May, 2007

reCAPTCHA

Just installed reCAPTCHA to get rid of spam from comments. You don’t see, but there was a lot of spam comments on my blog. As I have moderation on, they didn’t appear on the site… but it does not mean that they didn’t appear in my inbox. So now, reCAPTCHA will help keep my inbox [...]

112 call

I just had my maiden 112 call. Hooray, no longer a virgin! Had to report on some fight in my neighborhood.

eh facebook

For very long time I have been refusing to create accounts on Web 2.0 community websites. I am considering this kind of stuff childish and hyped for teenagers. I can create and host my content on my own. Unfortunately W2.0 community sites are huge and not only teenagers started to use them. I had to [...]

CA made easy

I have been complaing about lack of nice CA GUI for PKI with OpenSSL. So I have found gnoMint : gnoMint is a x509 Certification Authority management tool for GTK/Gnome environments.

My Photo Gallery -Original- broken

Yesterday I have noticed strange behavior reviewing my websites logs statistics. I have found that somebody was requesting my config.inc.php way too often, also a file .c.php was very suspicious. This all happened inside Original photo gallery writen by Jakub Steiner. I have closed my Photo Gal strait away. Today Jakub has posted about this [...]

Monitoring your systems

If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type. For some thoughts about the second type, read more

My little CA

I have been, recently, working with OpenSSL as a mini CA. As it is a great product, does everything with PKI what you need. Even after a while it is making sense how to use it. No problems. One issue, which held me a while was lack of clear information, instructions or interface to perform [...]