Category Technology

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 →

Flash Sites are Passé; The DOs and DON’Ts of Web Design

I’m surprised to find Renoma Paris’s site (in English) made entirely out of Flash. While it took ages to load, it also played an annoying music that I couldn’t turn off unless I turned down my speakers. Once the page… Continue Reading →

SingTel Misleads Customers with iPhone Tethering

I’ve been having problems trying to establish PPTP VPNs using my iPhone over my SingTel 3G connection. After quite a bit of troubleshooting, I found out that using the e-ideas APN assigns the iPhone a private IP address. I switched… Continue Reading →

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