As www.devquotes.com was suffuring for a huge peak of traffic, I figured I should install some caching server to meet the performance requirements.
I knew that Varnish was a good choice because of the many articles I came into the last few years, so I decided to give it a try.
You should know about that but extracting windows configuration is something very boring. mspaint.exe, screenshot + crop. HORRIBLE.
A good way to extract some information is to use the WMIC utility.
The wmic is a core feature of all Windows since Windows 2000 and most of the commercial monitoring software are using it to extract, analyze and display system information :
Here is a little list of actions you can perform through WMIC utility :
You may have heard about the new DDOS tools released by THc yesterday exploiting an OLD CVE :
here is how to protect yourlsef from the vulnerability :
Just edit your SSL configuration files ( or all your vhost files, depend your configuration) as follows:
SSLVerifyDepth 4 # max number of depth
SSLVerifyClient none (ou require)
SSLCipherSuite RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5:HIGH:MEDIUM:!ADH:!DSS:!SSLv2:+3DES # Ciphers suite used in the renegociation
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 # Let’s disable sslv2
SSLHonorCipherOrder on #using the order we just set
have fun @patching your apache configuration files !
My previous ISP (Free) provided me with a nice triple-play ADSL set-top box (aka « Freebox »). It has an internal 40GB hard disk drive accessible using FTP and was able to play content streamed through UPnP. I recently switched to a new ISP (Numéricable) because they were offering FTTH (100mbits downstream, 5mbits upstream) in my place, but unfortunately they’re not offering any kind of set-top box. I just got a classic Netgear modem and Netgear DVB device, which is unable to play any video content from the network.
As it turns out, I’m missing the HTPC-kind functionalities a pretty damn lot. Playing my video content on my living room’s TV is important in my eyes. Sadly, my computer is too far from the TV to link both using an HMDI cable. That’s how I decided that I’ll be building an HTPC.
What is exactly an HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer or Home Cinéma & Media Center in french):
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