2007 November - Part 4

Archive for November, 2007

New player to fight spam, Defensio

posted on November 12, 2007 in WordPress with 4 Comments

Defensio is the latest comment spam filtering service for blogs and web applications. Blogging platforms currently supported are WordPress, PixelPost, Umbraco, Drupal, Mephisto, Movable Type and TextPattern. Web applications can see integration through the following platforms, Ruby On Rails, .Net, Java, PHP and Python. Currently, the only big player out there doing the same is [...]

Password protect single user mode

posted on November 12, 2007 in Linux with 3 Comments

You forget your root password and get locked out of your own box. What do you do? Typically, you would reboot into single user mode and change the password there. When booting into single user mode you will not be prompted for the root password. This is something every attacker knows and prays on once [...]

Demonoid goes down

posted on November 12, 2007 in BitTorrent, Internet with 2 Comments

The popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid was forced to go offline. This time by the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association). Demonoid is currently down and below the quoted from there index page. The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry [...]

Welcoming the new author Raja

posted on November 12, 2007 in Site News with 3 Comments

Raja, my buddy for the past 6 years is now part of The Danesh Project. We started off working in the same company for about 4 years and now have moved on to different places but our passion or Linux,open-source and beer keeps the friendship going. Raja is new to the the blogging arena so [...]

Fedora 8 Officially Released

posted on November 11, 2007 in Linux with 4 Comments

My favourite distro, Fedora has been officially released on the 8th of November. Ars Technica has a rundown on whats new with it. Being a firm believer of clean installs, its time for me to ‘prepare’ my machine for this upgrade. Considering its Sunday, I guess my switch will have to wait till next weekend

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