One of the details that emerged from Curt's monitoring of the Invita
Security network involved a password used by Alexey Ivanov. When
accessing one of his drop sites, Alexey's FTP password was
www.pidor.com (Internet Archive available). Think of what an unwary
analyst might do with that information. Only someone who is monitoring
Alexey's actions might know about www.pidor.com. Say that unwary
analyst decides to visit www.pidor.com to learn more about the
site. If Alexey or a friend is monitoring Web accesses to
www.pidor.com, they could learn that they are being monitored. This
case demonstrates how important it is for analysts to not "touch"
remote or foreign sites involved in intrusions. You may tip your hand
to the attacker and ruin an investigation or recovery effort.
I have moved my blogging software from Wordpress to Serendipity. It was able to import the
entries from Wordpress without any problem. I needed to create 3
additional files to make the transition complete i.e. wp-atom.php,
wp-rss.php, wp-rss2.php . These were needed so that people who were
using the rss feeds from the Wordpress did not have to change their
feeds again.
These files do nothing more than redirecting the users to the new
feed url. For example, the content of the file wp-rss2.php is just
<?php
// For redirecting users who are lost
header("Location: http://rajshekhar.net/blog/feeds/index.rss2");
?>
Beyond this customization, I did not have to do any more labor to
migrate to Serendipity
You will not understand the below paragraph until you are well versed in geek culture . I am keeping it here, since it is another Frequently quoted quotation
After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two".
"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
One of the FAQ on the IRC channel (#linux-india at irc://freenode) is "What is the meaning of moo". I have added a page to my main website where I will try to answer that question.
If you have been using Linux, I think you must have been frusturated with the lack of good fonts when using Emacs. It gets very hard to distinguish between "l" (the letter l) and 1 (number 1) and between comma and semicolon when programming or examining large amount of code.
The Bitstream Inc have done an excellent work in producing and relesaing under a very liberal license, the bitstream-vera fonts. These fonts are really beautiful and easy to read. To use these fonts with your emacs, just add this line to your ~/.Xdefaults file
Emacs*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*--*-100-*--*--*-
Of course, you need to have the bitstream-vera fonts installed on your Linux box
. I am keeping it here, since it is another Frequently quoted quotation