LonnieOlson

After reading all the details about the “new” DNS exploit I feel quite annoyed. These types of attacks have always been possible. This isn’t new. Cache Poisoning has always been on every DNS server administrator’s check list of things to carefully plan to prevent. I compare it to Firewalls: Every [...]

Due to the comments I recrived on the last post on this topic, I decided to make a few changes.
First I want to say thank you to everyone that showed interest. Apparently this type of plugin is desperately needed. My initial version was just a quick hack to transfer meta data to and [...]

There was a very long thread on the misc@openbsd.org mailing list of the last week. It all started with some comments from Richard Stallman responding to complaints to him about his past remarks on BSDTalk. Lots of flaming and other arguments ensued. Including this snippet.
Theo: “Since both emacs and gcc contain [...]

While working as a SysAdmin (System Administrator) there are many tasks of different types. Any good sysadmin knows that there is always room for improvement. Some actually go so far as to script and/or automate everything. These types often end up spending weeks or months developing automation systems while the rest of [...]

Since Rhythmbox doesn’t handle smart playlists on my iPod, my days of listening to music directly from my iPod are over.
While I do use iTunes at home to do my normal master sync, I need to have my music on my computer at work. So I simply rsync my iPod’s Music to [...]