Today I clocked up 3 000 hits by actual browsers on my PPhlogger. It has been just under 3 months since I got 1 000 hits on the 7th of January 2004 which shows a good growth curve.
The lucky 3 000’th visitor was someone looking for Nikon D70 information.
Today I finally received my Nikon D70. There is an absolute frenzy in London as anyone who has any stock have been flooded with calls about it.
I had one booked at a shop who was wanting ยฃ950 inc for it, but then another got stock before the first shop did. They were selling it for ยฃ869 and had 9, 8 was on pre-order so I got the last one.
Now that they are also out of stock they put the price up to ยฃ999 so that’s a nice big bit of inflation there ๐
A new issue of 28mm has become available after a few months of absence, this issue contains one gallery entitled ARKHEE by Eolo Perfido that is absolutely stunning.
28mm showcases work by amateur and professional photographers and comes out when enough material has been submitted.
I came across Furl via blog.org. Furl is a fantastic tool for storing bookmarks on-line, you simply drag a bookmarklet onto your browser and any site you come across you just hit the “Furl It” button, this creates a popup window that lets you file the url into your bookmarks list.
The bookmarks list can be shared in many ways, people can view it directly on the Furl servers via the web, you can send e-mail updates and you can even subscribe to a RSS feed of someone else’s links. Excellent, I am hooked!
A new security advisory has been released by the FreeBSD team that affects all versions of the operating system.
I. Background
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of the TCP/IP protocol suite
provides a connection-oriented, reliable, sequence-preserving data
stream service. When network packets making up a TCP stream (“TCP
segments”) are received out-of-sequence, they are maintained in a
reassembly queue by the destination system until they can be re-ordered
and re-assembled.
II. Problem Description
FreeBSD does not limit the number of TCP segments that may be held in a
reassembly queue.
III. Impact
A remote attacker may conduct a low-bandwidth denial-of-service attack
against a machine providing services based on TCP (there are many such
services, including HTTP, SMTP, and FTP). By sending many
out-of-sequence TCP segments, the attacker can cause the target machine
to consume all available memory buffers (“mbufs”), likely leading to
a system crash.
They supply patches for FreeBSD 4.8, 4.9 and 5.2 and you can either apply those and rebuild just the kernel or upgrade your world to recent releases.
