16Dec/041
Paris
A few weekends ago I spent a day in Paris. The weather was mostly crap and no good for photography but I did manage to get a few decent shots.
I am planning to go there for a few days in December so should hopefully have more luck with it, the day I was there I mostly spent orientating myself a bit and getting a feel for the place. Next time I'll find it easier to take photos there since I know it a bit now.
Click the image above to see a couple of photos from there.
10Dec/040
wget vulnerabilities
A Post on Bugtraq identifies a lot of issues with wget. Comes down to dodgy webservers can overwrite any file that the user running wget can write to. He also provided a proof of concept.
So far no fixes have been created and if the author of the advisory is correct about the state of wget's source I wouldn't hold my breath.
Links
- @ripienaar
- Flashpolicyd
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- London DevOps Group
- MCollective Plugins
- R.I.Pienaar
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- The Marionette Collective
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Tweets
- Dante's Ingerno is a fun game
- DC visit done. Puppetmaster now has 4GB ram. What a PITA. Time to have good look at masterless operation
- Nice. Some aws ip trying to abuse my dev asterisk machine. Don't see many spammers/scammers using ec2 yet but clearly just a matter of time
- Sent a bug report about broken ruby stomp gem in 1.1.4, hopefully this mail does not fall on deaf ears like previous ones :( #activemq
- Damn you apple for inviting me to reserve an iPad when I do not live in the states and so cannot.
- Blog Post: New release of my Puppet Concat tool with 0.24.8+ support http://bit.ly/aA9RYh #puppet
- French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD http://bit.ly/9r2307
- It's ironic how you cannot send email with google charts api images to gmail users and expect it to work. way to go.
- Google charting API really is very sexy
- High Scalability: Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra at Digg http://bit.ly/9Kli5f
Reading
Planned books:
- The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner
- Relentless by Dean Koontz
- Mind Over Ship by David Marusek
- The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois
- The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan
Current books:
-
Ariel: A Book of the Change by Steven R. Boyett
Recent books:
- Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to Get the Most Out of the Latest Vim Editor by Kim Schulz
- Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design by Diomidis Spinellis , Georgios Gousios
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