In the last few days I wrote a Jabber Bot in Python, and now I decided to release a first version to the public. It still has some rough edges, but it definitely is usable and works just fine. Currently the bot sits in the debianforum.de MUC on chat.debianforum.de doing its little job. If I […]
After reading this (and of course watching the video), I remebered something I find even more impressive, and after some digging, I actually found it again. And there’s another one, not quite as impressive, but definitely a nice display of body control…
Don’t try this at home, kids…
According to this Netcraft article and the ISC diary from yesterday there are a lot of PHP apps out there, which are susceptible to an XML-RPC exploit in PHP’s PEAR.
PostNuke, WordPress, Drupal, Serendipity, phpAdsNew, phpWiki and phpMyFAQ are explicitly mentioned by NetCraft, but there are probably a lot more. So maybe you wan to disable […]
I got myself a new machine today… (Err, for those non-nerds out there: I mean a computer when I talk about a “machine” )
Now the 64 bit age broke loose in here, and even though the machine ran just fine with my good old Debian SID installation, running a 64 bit processor in 32 […]