Advanced mod_rewrite: FastCGI Ruby on Rails /w HTTPS
mod_rewrite comes handy on number of occasions, but when the rewrite deviates from the most trivial things, understanding how exactly the rules are processed is very very difficult. The documentation...
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Led Lenser K2 vs. MagLite Solitaire LED
A while ago I a friend send a link to Jamie and Adam Tested -YouTube channel. I'm a fan of Mythbusters, so he knew that I'd love their stuff. One of the videos they have there is Inside Adam Savage's...
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Huawei E3276 reviewed
I got my hands on Huawei E3276. It is a 4G LTE USB-stick. The model I tested appears to be a model s-150. According to 4GLTEmall.com it has following frequencies available in FDD: 800 MHz, 900 MHz,...
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Installing OpenSuse 13.1 into a MacBook
OpenSuse 13.1 was released November 2013. During Christmas holidays I started a project of upgrading my previous installation.Since I'm running on a MacBook 1,1 it was obvious that I was looking for...
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Supermicro SuperServer 5015A-EHF-D525
I needed a new rack-server to fit in a standard 19" telco-rack. Your average rack-mounted server is 60 to 100 cm long. A rack-server may be really thin. 1U (4,5 cm) or less, but really long. Then...
View ArticleTriggering Adobe Flash Player update manually
No matter how much I think it, it simply does not make any sense to me. Why an earth, isn't there a button to manually update Adobe Flash Player? What good will it do to download it every single time...
View ArticleZend Framework 2: Disable layout
This topic pops up every once in a while. As default every rendered page implicitly renders a layout too. This is especially bad for JSON or XML or binary responses your application may generate as a...
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AMI BIOS iKVM (Asus Z8PE-D12) failing to open console redirection
I was trying to see the remote console of one of my servers:It said: "Could not create token for this session. Max session limit might have reached". This was yet another reminder that Asus iKVM isn't...
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Updating Metasploit with Packet Storm exploits
For any computer security geek (like I am), Metasploit is the de facto tool to use. What especially makes Metasploit so good, that there are number of places where you can get brand new exploits to run...
View ArticleParallels Plesk Panel: Bug - DNS zone twice in DB
Earlier I had trouble with with a disabled DNS-zone not staying disabled. I'm running version 11.5.30 Update #32.The problem bugged me and I kept investigating. To debug, I enabled the DNS-zone and...
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It's alive! Printer ran out of paper
This one really made me laugh. The entire situation was like from T-2: "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m."My new printer ran out of paper and it sent me an...
View ArticleZend Framework 2: Abusing ZeDb to manage multiple connections
My favorite way of approaching DAL in ZF2 is ZeDb. It uses lot of existing functionality, but adds a nice layer of its own stuff, and that stuff is really good. However, ZeDb has one single flaw, it...
View ArticleCentOS 6 PHP 5.4 and 5.5 yum repository
I maintain RPM-packages for PHP 5.4 and 5.5, see earlier post about it.As any sysadmin can expect, there was too much trouble running the updates. Since CentOS 6 native way is running yum repositories,...
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GeoTrust service sucks!
I was renewing a SSL-certificate for a customer. They had been using GeoTrust earlier, so I went there. It was the first and most likely the last time I do business with them.The order process was...
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Debugging PHP applications with PhpStorm
Anybody who has reached a certain level of skill in software development eventually will start thinking about how to make the job easier or be more productive during the day. With computers and...
View ArticleDNS testing tools
Couple of times I've mentioned the Qualsys SSL Server Test in this blog. It is a really good (currently free) tool for evaluating your TLS/SSL server's security. Typically people run it to test their...
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Health-C-P scam: Danish Consumer Center officials gave a slap on the wrist
Last summer, in Facebook, the source of all nasty things, had ads published for Trimatol-, Corexin- and Life Detox products by really evil Danish company called Health-C-P. See my blog post about...
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PHP bashing: fractal of bad design?
I was inspecting the already fallen Bitcoin exhangeMt. Gox's source code at PasteBin and found a nice discussion thread about it at Hacker News with the title of Alleged Mt.Gox code leaked on IRC node...
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Firefox per dir save
Once upon a time there was a Firefox version which remembered where something was saved from a website. I think the last download destination directory was stored per host. I clearly remember that when...
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Java 1.7 update 51 breaking Cisco ASDM login
One day I needed to drill a hole to a Cisco firewall. I went to Adaptive Security Device Manager and could not log in. Whaat?!It did work before, but apparently something changed. Sneak peek with...
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