LOADays Organizers: Schedule
We have got a provisional schedule online. Check it out :Loadays 2014 schedulenotice: the schedule is still subject to change.
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 24 avril : Montage vidéo en libre avec Kdenlive
Ce jeudi 24 avril 2014 à 19h se déroulera la 28ème séance montoise des Jeudis du Libre de Belgique.Le sujet de cette séance : Montage vidéo en libre avec KdenliveThématique : Graphisme|vidéoPublic :...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: GSS-TSIG
While reading up on dnssec-keygen and other related stuff in order to update my puppet bind module to support DNSSEC transparently, I accidentally stumbled across something in the BIND Administrator's...
View ArticleKristof Provost:
I've noticed that many testers, project/program/product managers, ... have no idea on how to properly report bugs, or request new features. It's well known that developers will do everything they can...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Entrepreneurship is 80% sales and marketing
Topic: Startup lessonsBusinessAcquiaBackground in business is a 'nice to have', not a 'must have' for an aspiring entrepreneur. I had no solid business background when I founded Mollom or Acquia (I...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; A/T/O/S – “What I Need”
Last Saturday shortly before midnight I was listening to the radio, my ear-buds plugged in tightly and slowly falling asleep only for this tune to awaken my auditive senses, urging me to wake up and...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Presentation: Code Obfuscation, PHP shells & more: what...
I recently gave a presentation titled "Code Obfuscation, PHP shells & more: what hackers do once they get passed your (PHP) code". I've received positive feedback, which is why I think this may be...
View ArticleRuben Vermeersch: Release Notes: Mar 2014
What’s the point of releasing open-source code when nobody knows about it? In “Release Notes” I give a round-up of recent open-source activities.Slightly calmer month, nonetheless, here are some things...
View ArticleLOADays Organizers: New Updates
LOADays is a free open source event. You do not need to register, announce that you are coming. However you might want to inform to the world about our event.The Build-your-own-OpenNebula-Cloud day is...
View ArticleLOADays Organizers: Roadworks
Some practical information for people coming by car. The A12 motorway will be closed during the Loadays weekend. People coming from Brussels direction Antwerp better take the E19 highway. More info can...
View ArticleRuben Vermeersch: Benchmarking on OSX: HTTP timeouts!
I’ve been doing some HTTP benchmarking on OSX lately, using ab (ApacheBench). After a large volume of requests, I always ended up with connection timeouts. I used to blame my application and mentally...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: J’ai vendu mon âme pour un Chromebook
Depuis quelques mois, je me surprends à utiliser de moins en moins mon ordinateur en faveur de ma tablette. D’ailleurs, la majeure partie de mes documents est accessible via des services en ligne. Mais...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: The Day Windows XP Died!
Tuesday 8th of April 2014, a page of the computer industry has been turned! Windows XP is dead! Of course, I had to write a blog post about this event. For months now, Microsoft warned its customers...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Patch against the heartbleed OpenSSL bug (CVE-2014-0160)
A very unfortunate and dangerous bug has been discovered in OpenSSL that allows an attacker to read otherwise sensitive information hidden by the encryption of OpenSSL. In some cases, it allows an...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Gigas chocottes chez les opérateurs téléphoniques
Depuis des années, les opérateurs téléphoniques s’evertuent à proposer des plans tarifaires d’une complexité post-relativiste soit disant pour être plus adaptés à vos besoins : 15 centimes la minute en...
View ArticleWim Coekaerts: Easy access to Java SE 7 on Oracle Linux
In order to make it very easy to install Java SE 7 on Oracle Linux, we added a Java channel on ULN (http://linux.oracle.com). Here is a brief description of how to enable the channel and install Java...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: A better way to run PHP-FPM
If you search the web for PHP-FPM configurations, you'll find many of the same configurations popping up. They nearly all use the 'dynamic' process manager and all assume you will have one master...
View ArticleFrederic Descamps: MySQL Community Awards 2014 : Community Contributor of the...
At Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo (PLMCE), I had the honor to receive a MySQL Community Award for the "Community Contributor of the year 2014". I was so proud and still I am.This is the...
View ArticleFrederic Descamps: golden cage's phone supported in Fedora 20
If you want to be able to use an iPhone with Fedora 20 to copy photos or songs, you will need to upgrade libimobiledevice to 1.1.6. If you don't on the phone you will be constantly prompted to trust or...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Scan your network for Heartbleed vulnerabilities with Nmap
Nmap now has an NSE script (Nmap Scripting Engine) to detect SSL Heartbleed vulnerabilities. You can find how to patch yourself in my previous blogpost: Patch against the heartbleed OpenSSL bug...
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