As far as human endeavors go, computer systems are the most complex thing we’ve ever created. If the ancient Egyptians gave us great buildings, and the Greeks gave us great philosophical systems, then today our digital technology will be the legacy we leave our children. But with anything so complex, there are modes [...]
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Why hardening is important.
Published at September 20th, 2009Why Web 2.0 is taking off.
Published at June 2nd, 2008Remember the day when you had to know HTML to put a web page up? It was only for Geeks. Now I have my student just use a Web 2.0 app, type into their browser and they have professional looking pages. That’s because the Wordpress team did all the work of making [...]
OMG RAM does not lose its memory on powerdown
Published at February 26th, 2008The MIT team found a technique for perserving ram memory after powerdown! They do it by cooling the ram so the state does die on power off and then boot it with a tiny kernel, dump the ram contents, do hard core ECC and get the whole shbang.
Information Leaking is not just an Internet Phenomenon.
Published at September 10th, 2007Every time I go to Party City, they ask me for my Zip code, and every time, I give them a random answer. I make sure its an existing Zip code, so they can’t identify it as an error, but nonetheless, it is andom. Why do they need to know where I live? [...]
Setting up proper mail relaying for moodle and bb6
Published at September 1st, 2007So from 7:00 this morning until 9:15 I’ve been working on making our content management systems properly relay through our mail server, mail.ddl.dyc.edu, so that everything will conform with our DNS’s MX record. Actually I did moodle two days ago, it was trivial to reconfigure since we’re using postfix. One line in the [...]
New Subnet for the Distance Learning Servers
Published at August 23rd, 2007Today, we switched to a new subnet for all the distance learning servers: 67.151.215.224/27. Whois gives:
PaeTec Communications, Inc. PAETECCOMM (NET-67-151-0-0-1)
67.151.0.0 [...]
Update to 1.2.3
Published at July 31st, 2007I updated Wordpress MU from 1.1.1 to 1.2.3. I also added a bunch of themes.
Welcoming Dan to the family of Blogs@DYC
Published at April 1st, 2007Dan, an IT student – Education Major has just joined the family of bloggers at DYC. Round of applause please ….
I hate reality TV
Published at March 6th, 2007Reality TV has taught me nothing more than there is a level of human dignity, or lack thereof, which I have not hitherto imagined possible — perhaps the modern equivalent of the ancient gladiatorial games where the combats tear emotional gashes at one another to the cheers of an audience that is made to feel [...]
project.dyc.edu is born
Published at February 22nd, 2007Welcome to my blog and to project.dyc.edu which is the latest in a long line of servers that I’ve set up for D’Youville College’s Distance Learning program. Its running GRSEC hardened Gentoo on a 4×3GHz Intel Xeon, 4GB RAM, 6×320GB RAID-5 on aMegaRaid card.