Archive for the ‘VDot’ Category
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Well many moons ago I setup a jabber server so I could link all my IM accounts into one place. Way back then I tried Wildfire by Jive Software after a while I dumped it in favor of ejabberd as Java for running Wildfire on Linux was crippling the box.
After ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Small oopsie today... Opened something I shouldn't on the wrong machine, accidently opened while dropping into a bait VMWare session..... Ended up spending a good 40 mins cleaning up... It be a 0Day too so no virus scanner happens to find it..
Oh well, it has been sent off to the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Something I found today which is really handy is you can use the Google App Engine as your own little Content Delivery Network.
Having been playing a little with the Firebug Extension called YSlow that does the Yahoo! tests to see if a web site is optimized, I was looking at ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Had to laugh at this, so very glad I didn't write about it, but a combination of apathy and skepticism meant I didn't. Interestingly I would if I could have been bothered been in the perfect position to verify, after all, have wife that speaks Russian and access to Russian ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Well I just realized something, the Virus.Org site in one form or another is 10 years old. After acquiring the domain during the Summer 1997 the Virus.Org site itself came into being in Oct 1997.
It was vastly different back then, it wasn't a news site, just a collection of ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Well after doing a long overdue update run on the VDot servers it seems something with the latest libssl Libraries broke the IMAP server on the box. Something strange happened that resulted in the IMAP-SSL server refusing to accept connection from Mac Mail.app and from the Web Mail system.
It seems ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Last week I ended the two year hosting relationship with EV1 Servers aka. The Planet Internet. The main Virus.Org server was migrated off their network to the German ISP Hetzner Online who host the server for webmail, DNS and secondary mail.
The new machine is better spec'd AMD 64-bit system with ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Well added the F-Secure Security Platform to the VDot Malware scanner. It replaces the Ikarus Scanner which is being removed due to poor performance.
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
So the scanner is now over a year old, I'll be adding F-Secure's scanner to it in the next few days. But I think it is nearly time for version 2.0 of the Scanner. My plan is a total rewrite, and this time in Ruby, actually it will probably be ...
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Well the blog should be moved to a replacement server as the old one has problems...
At the same time, DNS, Mail Secondary and webmail for the VDot domain should be moved too..
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