UPDated GPG

According to this message:There is a command execution vulnerability in Squirrelmail GPG Plugin. The vulnerability has been tested on the latest versions of Squirrelmail, 1.4.10a, and GPG Plugin, 2.0.Detailed analysis and command execution PoC ava…

Tank.adslweb.net RIP

On friday 29th of june, my server tank.adslweb.net died. I guess the mainboard of the computer died… so I have to find a solution, because at this moment no backups are available. I have two options:Buy new hardware;Use the old hardware of morp…

mailing to chello.nl…. blocked…

As a lot of ppl found out, sending a mail to chello.nl is hard to do with your own MTA on a consumer broad-band connection. The consumer ranges are blocked by Chello/UPC But we can hack it… al you need is access to a non-blocked MTA (i.e. smtp….

VMWare ESX… it is just linux

At the moment I am working on a project who uses VMWare ESX. It is quite nice, although it is just ‘Linux’, with some VMWare stuff built in.The hardware to play with is also quite nice, it is an IBM x3800 with 4 dual core Xeon cpu’s (at the moment…

HP OfficeJet 7310 and Gentoo Linux

Yesterday my new OfficeJet 7310. So I grabbed it out of the box and wanted to install it under Linux.. .But… I couldn’t configure it using the menu… it wants to install it via the Windows-tools (or Apple tools) So I decided to install the free…

Limitation of 4 NICs in a VMWare-Machine

As I wrote before I gonna configure a network on a VMWare-Server.At this point, I got al the ‘werkstations’ configured and start configuring the FreeBSD instance… but I actually need about 7 networkcards… but… VMWare only allows you to use 4…

Retention of 7 backups

As I wrote in some posts earlier, I am working on a backupscript named Herakles. In the meanwhile I wrote a tiny shell-script which takes care of the retention. You can call this script using i.e. the crontab. So you can define the number of reten…

Testing a new packet filter config using VMWare Server

At Snow we want to implement a new packet filter config for the office-LAN. Although we really want to test it in a proper way, so we are gonna install VMWare Server te emulate the current network So hopefully the new config does go directly onlin…

Ordered a FON-router

Via one of my fellow Snow-workers I ordered a free FON-router. So I can offer WiFi Access around my home for other FON-users….

First week @ Snow

The 2nd of april I started as Engineer for the company Snow. The first day we received some company shirts and they told us that we, as Engineers, are not allowed to wear suits… with ties At this moment the sales-department is looking for a proj…