Xavier Mertens: Incident Handling with Docker Containers
Honestly, I never really played with Docker but… For a few weeks, I succumbed to the temptation of playing with Docker thanks to a friend who’s putting everything in docker containers. If you still...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: MongoDB performance tuning with ‘dex’
The post MongoDB performance tuning with ‘dex’ appeared first on ma.ttias.be.There really isn't much to tune in MongoDB as a sysadmin. In fact, there are only a handful of parameters you can change on...
View ArticleTom Laermans: Configuring IPMI Serial-over-LAN on Debian 8 (Jessie)
What is IPMI? Why still use a serial console?While your desktop or laptop at home isn’t all that far away from you, a server in a remote datacenter isn’t usually within reach. In case of issues with...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Condor Gruppe covering Moondog
“Bird’s Lament I” is one of the best known compositions of Moondog, a legendary American composer, musician, poet, busker and Viking roaming the streets of New York. A couple of nights ago I heard...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: The rise of Drupal in India
Earlier this week I returned from DrupalCon Asia, which took place at IIT Bombay, one of India's premier engineering universities. I wish I could have bottled up all the energy and excitement to take...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Het Internet Der Crap
Ik heb in Belgische bedrijven al bugs gefiled waarbij een buffer afkomstig van een Angular HTTP POST sessie gewoon met memcpy in een stack buffer van 1024 bytes gekopieerd wordt, met uiteraard strlen...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Heads up: Autoptimize minor release
Autoptimize 2.0 was a pretty successful release, if only because there were no major defects that forced me to quickly follow up with a bugfix release. That, off course, does not mean there were no...
View ArticleTom Laermans: Backing up a Subversion repository using svnsync
Why sync an SVN repository?In this article, I will discuss how to back up a remote Subversion repository to a local one. Use case is a (dedicated) backup server that retrieves a full backup copy of a...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: How to Not Send Corporate Emails?
On a daily basis, I’m looking for malicious emails. I own catch-all mailboxes that collect a huge amount of spam that I’m using to perform deeper analysis: to discover new tactics used by attackers and...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Ghostdog radio
The BBC may have Gilles Peterson, Studio Brussels can rely on Lefto but local UrgentFM has Ghostdog Radio; a one-hour weekly show where Johan Raes& Jef De Smet mix Jazz, Hip Hop, Techno, Soul, Trip...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: OpenSSL vulnerabilities: DROWN attack and CacheBleed
The post OpenSSL vulnerabilities: DROWN attack and CacheBleed appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Two very interesting vulnerabilities got disclosed today, targeting OpenSSL and the SSL/TLS cryptography in...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Running MISP in a Docker Container
MISP (“Malware Information Sharing Platform“) is a free software which was initially created by the Belgian Defence to exchange IOC’s with partners like the NCIRC (NATO). Today it became an independent...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Founder dilution
As founders of startups raise money from investors, their share of the company gets "diluted". This means the percentage of the company they own gets smaller and smaller. Last month a friend asked me...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Missing in PHP7: Nullable return types
This is the fifth post in my Missing in PHP7 series. The previous one is about Collections. This is a short post, as there really is not much to explain or motivate.Nullable return typesAs of PHP7, we...
View ArticleTom Laermans: Adding “Let’s Encrypt” TLS to your BitlBee server
BitlBee? Some sort of new transformer?BitlBee is an IRC-to-Instant-Messaging gateway. What this basically means is that you can connect your IRC client to BitlBee, then configure your instant messaging...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: A technical guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
The post A technical guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) appeared first on ma.ttias.be.* Rewrite URL www- or non-www * HTTPs instead of HTTP * Page speed * Headers & semantic markup *...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 17 mars : Un Raspberry Pi pour bidouiller
Ce jeudi 17 mars 2016 à 19h se déroulera la 47ème séance montoise des Jeudis du Libre de Belgique.Le sujet de cette séance : Un Raspberry Pi pour bidouillerThématique : informatique de...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Eefje De Visser; onbegrijplijk maar mooi
Eefje De Visser is blijkbaar terug uit het Zuiden en alhoewel ik niet altijd begrijp wat ze zingt (veel woorden die op een bijzonder acrobatische manier in het ritme van het nummer worden gedwongen),...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: File not found on exec
cat hello.c #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; } A simple, standard, C program. Compiling and running it shouldn't produce any surprises... except when it...
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