I found this initiative, apparently started in Sweden, quite funny but also educative. So I just set up the Shockingly Big IE6 Warning plugin in this blog. Then I became curious and checked the stats of this site : So there is still about 9% of our visitors that are running IE 6 and 3%…
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There is a nice video tutorial to get your GNS3 lab connected to your physical network. However, it requires you to use a real network card with a fixed IP for doing that. This is not really handy if, llike me, you use GNS3 on a laptop whose connectivity is frequently switching between cable and…
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I don’t know how it really happened – probably a VMWare crash that locked my file system, but after a reboot I got this message at startup : Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ Perhaps there is a stale lock file? As a result, some of the partitions were not mounted and the system was pretty much…
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MD5 was found vulnerable a few years ago. Recently, a team succeeded in producing a fake CA SSL certificate. MD5 or SHA-1 is the algorithm used to authenticate the peer in SSL messages. If it gets compromised, and using various combined technics, it becomes possible to do a MiM attack. But too much noise has…
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openSUSE 11.1 is out and already on all my desktop PC. This distribution is, by far, the best Linux environment for a desktop PC : very stable, up to date, polished, professional… I also appreciate the huges improvements made on Yast and the package management system. Despite being an advanced user that like to use…
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