Computers

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This is probably old news for any HD-DVD fans, but anyways.

On April 30. 2007 the encryption key for the HD-DVD leaked from an unknown source. The key will make it possible to play a protected HD-DVD on any player on any OS (Linux, anyone?). It will also open up for creation of programs analagous to DeCSS for DVDs.

09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0

I have almost all my webpages on some servers here at home. I have (or had?) a 3Mbit/s xDSL connection, and it have worked fine for a long time.
But as the nuber of customers in my area has increased alot, the connection quality has decreased. So, while I'm waiting for a reconnection to a different route, I'm close to the good old dial-up connection speed.

Yay!

I can't help it. I like, or disslike crawlers. I have written one, I have tracked them, and I have traped them. It's fun. It's challanging.
What's so fun about them? There are good spiders, there are bad spiders, there are spamming spiders, there are email harversters, and there are probably alot of useless spiders, like mine.
The challange is: what to allow, what to block?

I have started a project that aims to gather information about the behaviour of webspiders. Good and bad.

Oh.. and here is the link: SpiderWatch.

Have fun!

Bruce Schneier wites in his latest newsletter:

Xiaoyun Wang, one of the team of Chinese cryptographers that successfully broke SHA-0 and SHA-1, along with Andrew Yao and Frances Yao, announced new results against SHA-1 at Crypto's rump session.

You can read more here or the whole newsletter here.

Some months ago, a friend was talking about greylisting and how effective it was against spam and e-mail viruses. Today I installed milter-greylisting on two of my mailservers.
And it is quite amasing. The first time a SMTP server tries to deliver a message, the maessage is rejected, real mailservers will resend the message and this time the message is accepted. A mass mailing application or a virus will most likely not handle the error response correctly, and just ignore it.

LiveHTTPHeaders is a Mozilla extension that enables you to see the HTTP headers sendt and recieved when loading a webpage. You can also modify the haders, and replay the request with the new headers.
This is usefull when testing and debuging web applications.

I have installed it with success on Firefox 1.0.1 running on Windows XP pro sp2.

Reading the 1.0 release notes for Firefox proved to be extremely usefull for me. One feature I have missed in Firefox, is to force a new tab instead of a new window when clicking links that open new windows.

Guess what, it's there in 1.0, only hidden.
To enable the options set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true in about:config.

Well, this is kinda old news, but m0n0wall 1.2b2 was released 10/24/2004. And I upgraded my firewall today.

Whats new (from the beta changelog):

* experimental OpenVPN support -> this will modify the optional interfaces configuration in your config.xml - backup first!
* Dial-On-Demand for PPPoE and PPTP on WAN
* added DHCP relay service
* ICMP type matching for filter rules
* PPTP VPN login/logout logging