Category Technology

The Second Lecture

So the second lecture was on Software Engineering. Big word and unfortunately means big problem. The class was introduced to Agile/Scrum which is a newer methodology compared to the old waterfall/spiral SDLC model that I was taught in school. I… Continue Reading →

Aspiration 5: My Friends All Hate Me

Just for laughs 😀 http://apps.facebook.com/ajsdfasfj/aspiration5.php BTW, fb:wallpost tag is broken (it does not show up as it’s supposed to)

Teaming and Waving

Looks like I’ve gotten my first team for the Facebook assignment and am still trying to figure out a team for the second Seminar assignment. Hopefully I can get that settled as well so I can get this off my… Continue Reading →

First Peek at Amazon EC2

I just got my Amazon EC2 account today and poked around a bit. Technically, it’s just a super cluster of virtualized servers running a (very likely) hacked copy of the open source Xen with a AJAX-enabled web management interface. The… Continue Reading →

Hardening Linux and Apache Servers for DDoS

In my earlier entry I discussed an interesting topic on firewalls and why we don’t need them. I put a small LAMP server to the test and got my results. Attack Information: Type: TCP SYN flood Max performance: 26Kpps (8Mbps)… Continue Reading →

Being Ignorant About DDoS and Why Firewalls Suck

I’ve just attended a one day “seminar” with folks at Arbor Networks and it has been insightful. It seems people are still pretty ignorant about DDoS attacks. Unlike the 1999 CIH virus that was programmed to take out a computer… Continue Reading →

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