my first encounter with an exploit due to my own stupidity: www.geocities.com/hacked2wonder/BNC.tgz

fortunately, it was a rather simple attack, leaving many traces in the history file and obviously no self-replicating code anywhere else (still some fingers crossed).

so far, everything is looking fine again, thanks to the help of the colleagues; and i've learnt from this burn.

for what it's worth i (stupid admin) won this first battle against some guy from romania (stupid attacker).

angst, angst, angst!

whoa, helma is currently on the first page of the apple downloads section for unix & open source software!

update: even better, helma is among the 20 most popular downloads in this section.

now on a myspace site near you: the vienna jewish choir.

phew, what a buzzword.

in fact, if they provided a buzzword api i would know immediately what to do with it.

spoilers ahead!

salon reviews cloverfield, rotten tomatoes give it a 77%.

please take a look at or browse or simply worship tweebiscuit.net for a minute. hilarious. (best viewed on a widescreen monitor.)

crave.cnet reviews the MacBook Air: "[...] the lack of an internal optical drive will turn away a lot of people. The fixed battery is a big problem for a lot of people, and still more folks won't accept the limited I/O options. If you care about any of these things, the Air doesn't look like a good value for money. [...] But once they look at the Air, those remaining candidates may be quickly won over. It's so thin! The case is so cleverly curvy that it's actually deceptive."

Good point. The stir caused by the new Apple piece of hardware among those with the blindness of the engineer who cannot believe that someone would pay a much too high price for the lack of the most basic features (or: "just for the design"), and those who are deaf to any reasonable argument and irrationally fall in love with that thin gadget - it's the stir in ourselves whether we can grasp the power of seduction.

People deceive themselves and if one gets to understand this, one knows how a company like Apple works, and further realizes: that's what the human soul looks like.

port knocking looks like an interesting concept to harden the SSH port against brute force attacks.

HopRepl, another REPL aka shell for Helma by yours truly.