Archive for January, 2006

Fernando Gont’s Case: Lost of Good Will

Monday, January 30th, 2006

It was on July 20 2005 12:18PM when Fernando Gont sent an email to bugtraq (at) securityfocus.com, a security mailing list full of people submitting information about software bugs or vulnerabilities from any software or hardware product. On his email, Fernando Gont disclosed the information about “ICMP attacks against TCP” [Security Focus 2005a].
Theo de Raadt, [...]

Importing Ubuntu CDs to Indonesia? Get Ready For Surprises

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Applause for Ubuntu for being the the best Linux distro since last year according to DistroWatch. Giving out CDs for community is considered not good enough for them so they will also pay for the shipping fee as well. All you need to do to have those Ubuntu Linux CDs is to register, wait, and [...]

You think you should multitask?

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Wishing that we, mere mortal, can do more than one task at a time is not an idiosyncrasy. 24 hours is not enough to do several task in a day. We believe that and live with it. We think, the more task we can do at a time, will make us a better person. We [...]

*nix Admin Experience

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

This article is intentionally for those of you who is flabbergasted to encounter the existence of stupid living thing. Some of them got a job as a system administrator and sometimes be your manager or supervisor. This article will show you this species that we can easily found.
It is not about the OS, it is [...]

Open Source for Better Security

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

“Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?”[ZDNET 2000]. Most people would answer no [ZDNET 2000]. Microsoft and other non-Open-Source software company have deliberately obstructed the availability of software source code. This practice, although adopted by many software companies, will lead to security problem as customers and users have no access to look [...]