Namecheap a few months later
A while ago I set on the search for a cheap domain and ssl certs reseller and settled for namecheap.com. Here I'm documenting my, overall positive, experience with them. more »
Buying domains and ssl certificates for personal use on a tight budget
I never cared too much about my web presence and spikelab.org is the only domain I ever owned, so back then doing extensive researches to save a couple bucks didn't make much sense. Someone recommended Gandi to me and there I bought it. As for ssl certificates, CACert is what we all should use and push for, but right now we're far from a large adoption, and considering the associated fees (read bribes) required to be accepted in largely used browsers like IE it won't probably ever happen. more »
Track down a rogue php email script
I've been asked again how to track down a php script abused by spammers on a standard LAMP platform running apache and mod_php. So here it goes. more »
To own, to be owned, or what else? BT and its proxies.
Two weeks ago my browser started acting weird, where weird means eating 99% CPU and never loading some pages. At first I ignored it, it just couldn't load some truecrypt documentation which I could check at work. But soon it got worse, more pages weren't loading so I decided to take some time and look into it. more »
My uptime is longer than yours!
evilkittens:w {161} ./uptime -i
11:13AM up 3 inches, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.15, 0.13
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Saying something that isn't false isn't lying: security and customers.
Especially when talking about technical matters, any statement should be completely transparent and adhere to details and limits of the technology it refers to. Unfortunately this isn't always possible, and not necessarily because of evil businessmen trying to cash as much as possible from unsuspecting customers. more »