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The droid has been rooted

Posted on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 3:57 pm View Comments

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Only about an hour ago it was announced that the droid has been rooted.

Alldroid.org post with download + instructions etc.

Authors Post:

md5sum of initial exploit zip: 94a0c30ea9104c2776d042e760bfd716

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A first look at Chrome OS

Posted on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 4:29 pm View Comments

Thursday Chrome OS, Google’s new web only OS, was just released. Basically Google is seeing that 90% of our time on the computer is being spent on the internet. All our email, pictures, music, videos social network, etc are all on the web. In this sense everything else on…

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Nginx to the rescue

Posted on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 at 11:32 am View Comments

nginxThrough my continuing investigation of what it appears to be a file descriptor leak in apache, I discovered I am not completely crazy. I ran across some bugs written up against apache regarding file descriptor leaks which really turned me…

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Linux, why hast thou forsaken me?

Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at 3:22 am View Comments

I’ts late, about 4am. Browsing around reddit, reading up on what I have missed throughout the day, and I happen to leave a browser tab open with my munin monitoring stuff up. I noticed that it stopped loading (it has an auto-refresh). When I tried to refresh…

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Your firewall blocks more than you think

Posted on Saturday, March 28th, 2009 at 10:03 pm View Comments

A couple of weeks ago I setup iptables on my Slicehost VPS. After a few days of watching it  I was suprised at how many connections were being denied. This machine has only been public for a couple days or so and I only had…

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Linux is sexy too

Posted on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 4:13 pm View Comments

As an avid linux user, I can relate.

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Back it up, back it wayyyy up

Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 2:42 pm View Comments

Unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way to start backing up my stuff locally, and backing that up too. On my old web host I had around 10 different websites hosted on there plus some other stuff that violated the TOS… Long story short, my host disabled my…

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  • Back it up, back it wayyyy up
  • Back it up, back it wayyyy up
  • Back it up, back it wayyyy up
  • Back it up, back it wayyyy up
  • Back it up, back it wayyyy up

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